I wish it was easier to find high quality taping of stage productions.
Specifically, small stage productions.
Like, I found a Killer rendition of Spamalot from a New Jersey troop. It was great! And very well shot, and well acted. I loved it, and I've sent it along to a few dozen people who'd never seen the show.
But I've seen Tim Curry in Spamalot (twice) so, like, a group from NJ isn't going to live up to that.
I want to see the same careful archival or plays I've never seen live.
an interesting category.
are you referring to Youtube videos or archived/private collections?
it would be a unique PUBLIC resource, too, but I wonder about all the licensing issues that would follow...
@GluedToTheScreen The video I'm referring to, I found on youtube.
An archived collection wouldn't help me much.
Copyright is always a problem, but it'd be *real* hard to argue that the recording itself was illegal, maybe the distribution, but the performance itself has to be licensed already.
OTOH, dozens (hundreds?) of plays written as recently as the 70s are in the public domain, and there aren't even good performances of those available.
I look at it like a kind of DIY TV/Film opportunity.
There are thousands of scripts that we could stage. Film it from a different angle every night, get a soundboard mix from each night from the lapel mics.
Stitch together a single high quality film from the angles/takes from each night.
You end up with what amounts to a film, but with very little extra work from mounting a traditional play (Aside from the editing, but I know a guy.)
@GluedToTheScreen As long as we rely on #hollywood for our media, we're funneling money to some of the most politically dangerous people that have ever lived.
We gotta take every chance we can to replace hollywood media with our DIY community alternatives.
fuck, this is a blog post or a series of blog posts or a book. I can feel it.
Andrew (Television Executive)
GluedToTheScreen