Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of8 Jason Jotay, (left) as Ramses and Diluckshan Jeyaratnam as Moses during rehearsals for the world premiere of the musical "The Prince of Egypt" at TheatreWorks in Redwood City, Ca.
Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of8 Rehearsals for the world premiere of the musical "The Prince of Egypt" at TheatreWorks in Redwood City, Ca. Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of8 Diluckshan Jeyaratnam as Moses, (right) during rehearsals for the world premiere of the musical "The Prince of Egypt" at TheatreWorks in Redwood City, Ca. Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of8 Composer Stephen Schwartz, (left) and director Scott Schwartz, during rehearsals for the world premiere of the musical "The Prince of Egypt" at TheatreWorks in Redwood City, Ca. "It's really truly a new, world premiere production.1 of8 ( l to r) The book's author Philip LaZebnik, Composer, Stephen Schwartz and Scott Schwartz, the director, during rehearsals for the world premiere of the musical "The Prince of Egypt" at TheatreWorks in Redwood City, Ca. "And in terms of the staging, Sean Cheeseman (the choreographer) and I have been developing that language for three years, the basic concept and physical set are pretty close to what we've done in the past, but we've really looked at it completely fresh and there are many many things that are different and that was very exciting. "Obviously a lot of material in the script is the same as its been in previous productions because with each developmental step we've worked on it and tried to improve it and as things work we set them.
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I’m not sure there’s really any dialogue from the movie in the stage version and if there is, it‘s pretty minimal."ĭirector Scott Schwartz who has been part of the stage piece since its inception, also viewed it as a completely new show. "If I looked at the screenplay side-by-side to the dialogue in the show, I would think about 90% is new.
The Invisible Man clip gives insight into terrifying new Elisabeth Moss horror "So I would say that’s the other part of it, is that one has the opportunity to go into more depth and complexity with the characters and how they relate to one another." Here we’re dealing with three-dimensional actors in a three-dimensional space and we hope characters that are more well-rounded and nuanced than we were able to do in the film. "And also, you know a movie, and particularly a hand-drawn, animated feature is two-dimensional. "If you’re going to do those on stage, you have to find a very theatrical way of telling that story, and so we use physical theatre, the actors create everything with their own bodies, so it’s an extremely physical show, and that’s obviously quite different than the film. "First of all, film is an extremely literal medium, so if the Red Sea is going to part, or two brothers are going to have a chariot race, that’s what you are going to see. "I think there are big and, frankly, exciting differences between the stage musical and the film and they sort of are in two areas," says Schwartz when asked.
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