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Lane Talbot's avatar

Love this museum. Saw a Mad Men walk through there that I still think about regularly.

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E. H. Lau's avatar

Very cool! Looks like you and your family had a great time! 😄

Neat to find out that Terrific had its origins as a play! How much of that play carried over into the novel(s), if I may ask?

Speaking of superheroes on stage, three (possibly more) of Japan's largest superhero franchises - Super Sentai (what Power Rangers is adapted from), Kamen Rider, and Ultraman - has had stage shows pretty much every year featuring that year's entry into the franchise. Though they (and the franchises) are usually seen as more children's fare, and may not be what you were envisioning. But I thought that I'd bring that up, in case it gives you hope for superheroes on stage in the future. 😉

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Daniel Sherrier's avatar

The play had an early version of The Silver Stranger's plot, but the details are very different. The play needed to focus more on their secret identities, with the superhero stuff happening mostly on the periphery. And the powers were designed around what could be shown on a stage without much of a budget (super-strength and telekinesis were used against people; telepathy could be asides or voice-overs; and light-controlling was basically different lighting cues).

I wasn't aware of Japan's superhero stage shows, though they do sound more like spectacles for children. I was thinking more Broadway-style theatre, whether musical or non-musical. But that does look like fun for the children of Japan!

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E. H. Lau's avatar

Aah, the limitations of the medium... and budget! 😆

Very cool though, that you had a play of yours put on in Chicago!

It must have been a lot of work!

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Daniel Sherrier's avatar

Thanks! It was a very small theater in Chicago, but I was certainly happy with it, and the cast and crew put a ton of work into it. I wasn't directing or anything, so my workload at that point was just some rewriting when they'd realize, "Oh, wait, this scene doesn't actually work."

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E. H. Lau's avatar

Oooh - any particular examples of a scene turning out to not work on the stage, if you want to share?

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Daniel Sherrier's avatar

I don't mind sharing -- I just don't remember the specifics at this point. One scene in the final act had a little too much action, so that needed to be scaled back. Otherwise, it was mostly the normal developmental editing matters, such as something not feeling right for a particular character, or a scene that was dragging on a little too long. That kind of thing.

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E. H. Lau's avatar

Oooh, pretty neat that you were able to make minor changes to it, and then had the next show reflect that!

Thanks for sharing! 😄

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greg glassner's avatar

Muppets rule

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