Would you go to a play made from an iconic book or movie?

I’d love to see a Space Odyssey 2001 on stage with a giant hamster wheel spinning, chimps and a monolith, etc.

In all seriousness, there’s a reason why Theater and Film are two separate mediums.

I am with you. I’d love to see that as a play, too.

Specifically, TKAM, I really want to see it with Jeff Daniels. The play is adapted from the book, not from the movie,

Despite the reverence which most people give the movie, I have never thought it was so overwhemingly special. And the movie script was an adaptation.

Fiddler on the Roof was an adaptation from a short story, but it is one of my favorite musicals.

Absolutely

Yes, probably, if I had been interested in the book and/or movie. I am often curious to see how a different medium will present the story.

Yes if given the resources I’d watch a play once a week. Originals preferred but wouldn’t mind great book adaptations.

I might be able to be convinved to see a play based on “The Hateful Eight”.
I mean, it basically already is a play.

@ragingloli There Will Be Blood

I hate that movie.

It is almost as good as this scene from the robocop remake

Related: Just listened to the interview with Jeff Daniels on the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron. Very good chat. Makes me want to see him in To Kill a Mockingbird.

I love plays, books, and movies. If the production is good, it’s good.

@cookieman and @janbb Listen to the interview with Aaron Sorkin on this week’s New Yorker Radio Hour. You’ll be searching for tickets before it is over.

^^ Will do.

@zenvelo And I just heard a bad review of it on NPR. But my mind is still open.

I wonder if a movie that relies very heavily on special effects (like Star Wars) could be successfully reproduced as a play?

For me, a play is a totally different experience from a movie. I have completely different expectations of a play—more relaxed, easier to forgive any little errors, less expectation, just way more fun. Maybe that is because I have never been to a play that was professionally done. The largest town in which I’ve seen plays was downtown Minneapolis. So much fun there!

I would enjoy seeing almost any play, without any huge expectations for it. And yes, it’s been far too long since I’ve been to one.

Wow. Now, I want to go see a play—any play.

@Qav Your expectations might be higher if you were paying nearly $200 for a ticket!

Likely, @janbb

In the southern outskirts of MPLS, my first husband and I liked to go to plays at a dinner-theatre. It was a lot classier than those I usually went to but still not even close to $200 a ticket. Of course, that was in the ‘70s. They were also relaxed and a lot of fun. I’m not sure I would enjoy anything classier. I may live on the West Coast, but I have a Midwest attitude. <grin>

They are making a stage play based of an anime.
what could possibly go wrong?

^^ A modern day playwright who could write in Shakespeare’s vernacular should write that!

$200 for a ticket??

@Dutchess_III We’re not in Kansas any more!

For me to go to a play that is $200 a ticket, it would have to be accompanied by a very decent orchestra. In fact, for less, I would rather go to a college play or an orchestral concert than do that.

I’d pay 200 to see Daniel Day Lewis in a stage adaptation of Taxi Driver.