Wednesday, October 28, 2009
‘Sex and the City’ Writers Collaborate on a Stage Soap
NYTimes.com: "In the five years since the last original episode of HBO’s “Sex and the City,” the four women who wrote many of its scripts have only grown closer, serving as bridesmaids when one of their number was married and gathering for a weekly dinner they nicknamed Sushi and Story to talk about writing projects and catch up on gossip."
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i would love to see a theatrical version of sex and the city or a production with the same underlying themes and messages, when sex and the city first came out it became extremely popular for how real and sultry the content of the show was and how closely it depicted real women in new york and it would be great to see it turned into a theatrical soap
The ongoing weekly-installment soap opera model is a really fascinating one to apply to live theatre like Cedar City Falls is doing. Writing and producing a weekly 80-minute show at breakneck pace must be incredibly difficult, but it allows the writers an ability to really take characters through an extended arc - allow time to age the characters naturally and see how they change over the course of however many weeks they choose to continue the show. My only fear is that new audience members would have a difficult time of getting into the story, since there may be audiences who have been there since the beginning and the interactions from weeks past may (in fact, definitely will) have impact on the characters' relationships with each other at this specific point in time.
I think this is a very good idea. However, I feel there is a great risk that it will not translate as well as they hoped. I think the fact that audiences will have to keep coming back is good but they run the risk of losing everyone who was not there in the beginning. I think that it is a very exiting idea for writers because this works in a way that no other medium does. Even TV episodes film in a season (maybe not SNL). This is as fast-paced as it gets. I really hope it works out because it seems like everyone working on it is very excited about it. I am interested to see how far it can go. Especially because it requires such a commitment from the actors.
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