Keyword: filmed theater

The King and I

8

2018

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Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher whom the King brings to teach his many wives and children.

On Golden Pond

6.6

2001

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Ethel (Dame Julie Andrews) and Norman Thayer (Christopher Plummer) are an old couple living On Golden Pond. Their daughter, Chelsea Thayer Wayne (Glenne Headly), is forty-two-years-old, and has never been married. She is dating a forty-five-year-old dentist, and brings him up to Golden Pond to meet her parents. Her boyfriend, Bill Ray (Sam Robards), has a fourteen-year-old son named Billy (Will Rothhaar), who comes along. Young Billy has been virtually raised by his mother, who is newly divorced from his father. The troubled child is left with the elderly Thayers for some time, as his father and Chelsea take off for a tour of Europe. Character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death; a middle-aged woman attempting to enter into a father-daughter relationship with her dad, whom she has never known closely; and a young teenager dealing with parental divorce.

Sunday in the Park with George

8.3

1986

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Video production of the Pulitzer-prize winning musical stage production. In the first act, \George\, a fictionalized Georges Seurat paints his lover, Dot, and \A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Le Grande Jatte.\ Characters who become figures and vice versa walk through the story. In Act 2, Georges descendant, a sculptor, comes to terms with his grandmother, Life, and Art.

Death of a Salesman

5.7

1966

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Adaptation of Arthur Millers play.

Peter Pan

7.6

1960

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In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael, and John Darling.

Gilda Live

7

1980

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A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show Saturday Night Live.

Pippin

7.6

1981

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At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples lifes pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life.

National Theatre Live: Nation

8.4

2010

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A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress. Neither speaks the others language, but somehow they must learn to survive and forge a new nation.

A Moon for the Misbegotten

8.2

1975

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A televised version of the Broadway revival of Eugene ONeills play. A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution.

King John (Stratford Festival)

7.5

2015

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A filmed version of the Shakespeare play as put on by the Stratford Festival. The much unloved 12th century King John fought battles on several fronts including with his own barons.

Hamlet

6.5

2015

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From its sell-out run at Manchesters Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was the Royal Exchanges fastest-selling show in a decade.

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture

7

1986

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The colorful holiday classic is brought to the big screen, designed by famed childrens story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written to be as close to the original story. Based on the Pacific Northwest Ballets original production.