What is your opinion on plays compared to the movies?

Have you seen the play versions of movies like "The King and I, My Fair Lady", etc and how did they compare with the movies?

What is your opinion on plays compared to the movies?amc theatre

It's really a different experience. Movies can capture subtle emotion from a closeup on an actor, be filmed on location, and be preserved forever to view exactly the same performance again and again. Live stage productions exist only for the performances themselves, and they are a little bit different every time they're done.

Movies can be great, and should be done to bring these shows to people that wouldn't be able to see the shows live. But seeing a live stage show is just a different experience from a movie, so it's not necessarily better or worse.

What is your opinion on plays compared to the movies?symphony opera theater

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Plays are awesome!!

It's best to see the play live theater first, and then go rent the classic movie and watch it with an entirely new perspective and appreciation for what the Movie Studios could do waaaayyyyyy back when!!

I don't like the word compare, i like the contrast!

one is live, and one you can hit pause and rewind.
The plays and the movie were totally different but the plays were a little more entertaining since it was a live performance you know.

I think it really depends on your mood but plays are real cool to see like Phantom of the Oprah but the movies are always a place where you can go with your friends and just hang out.
I haven't seen the king and I, but have gone to several plays...I enjoy them because its a different type of entertainment. Movies are wonderful because any mistake or scene they don't like, they just edit. But live shows give you a different kind of energy...it's exciting watching a story unravel in front of your eyes. If its a good play, it will be engaging and you'll get lost in the story. The human connection you get from a live performance vs a movie is incomparable. A simplier concept would be why children love to be read to as opposed to reading a book themselves. They bond with the story more and the impression is more lasting...
I prefer plays when I get the chance. You get more out of it in my opinion. Yes movies you can stop and watch whenever you want, but plays makes you feel like you are really there with them characters.
A play is much harder to produce, than a movie. In plays you are on the stage where live people see every move you make.The reports on a play can be much more harmful than a movie.Yes i have seen both "THE KING AND I " and " My Fair Lady " on stage and the movie version. The movie version gives you different back rounds and more sound than a play. The movie you can watch at home on TV OR DVD OR VHS. The real excitement is going and seeing a play. Especially if the Actors from the movie are in the play. They both have advantages and disadvantages to them. If you never have been to a play you or missing out on one of the greatest performance that an actor or actors can give.
I love reading the book, seeing the "play or musical" and then watching the movie...in that order.

The movies can use more creative elements to "flush out" a story where a theatrical production is limited.

Often time, none compares to "how" I imagined it too be. "Pygmalion" or "My Fair Lady" (the same thing) is a wonderful example of the theater productions that got incredibly better due to the creative influence of the Audrey Hepburn Movie.

The book "The King of Siam" is the influence of the "King and I " and reading the book, watching the musical and seeing the Jodie Foster Movie, the movie is the closest to the real story. Yet I love the romantic undertones, incredible music and kids in the "King and I" play then Yul Brenner Movie has to offer us.

My favorite are classics like Shakespeare, whom wrote for the theatre productions and how it is translated on stage and movies. To read the book, it is written as a script, so it makes YOU the reader the director in this piece of literature. Take Hamlet or Macbeth, can you relate them to modern days? Would a twist like that change you views of mental illness?

Romeo and Juliet have been "done" to death on film. Yet my favorite is the unedited version by Franco Zefferalli, with a young Micheal York as Marchiso.

In my twenties we had a Book, play and movie club once a month. All of us theater junkies, would get the college or University schedule of Classical productions and base our monthly events on them. We read Macbeth, watched the movie and saw the play and discussed the differences. Even the Christmas Carol or Dickens Christmas Classics.

Enjoy!
Live musicals - if done well - are ALWAYS better than movies. I don't think musical theatre works nearly as well in the film medium. Every now and then a film comes around (non musical) that was first a play - but plays better as a film. Doesn't happen often though.
Movies portray life.

Theatre is life.