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stage production

posted 9 years ago by harryzinnerman
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I note that this great film started as a stage play. Has it been produced on stage in recent years? If not, this would appeal to me more than a screen remake.

[–] ghostfan 8 years ago

I'd love to see a stage version of this. I don't know of any recent productions, but my mother directed the stage play of Stalag 17 at Lowry Airforce Base in Denver Colorado back in 1953... its where she met my dad.

Alas, my mom died over 20 years ago, so I gave no idea how she happened to be directing the play there to begin with, but I have always had a soft spot for it. If she hadn't directed that play, I may not have ever been born!

[–] jpgiuliotti 8 years ago

Would love to see it too but the play's script is a bit different from the film's. I met Joe Bologna at a party and he told me that he actually played the Sefton role on stage at one point of his career.

[–] ghostfan 8 years ago

Cool. Bologna would fit in well in a S17 Stage production!

How sad, that you were not born in my time, nor I, in yours.

[–] webbrl-177-543920 7 years ago

Sydney Pollack was in a stage production. According to his IMDB obit ( www.imdb.com/news/ni0270016/), he played Sefton. Man, would I like to see some photos from THAT production!!!

[–] murph24 7 years ago

Ten years ago, it was announced Spike Lee would direct a revival of "Stalag 17" on Broadway, and there were reports Clive Owen would be playing the role that won William Holden an Academy Award. Reactions from New York's theater community ranged from intrigued to flabbergasted, with Lee (who'd never directed on stage & couldn't recall the last time he'd been to a Broadway theater) claiming he was going to present a "new" incarnation of the play which would include changes to the original script.

When the show's producer died the following year, so did plans for the new production. Spike Lee finally got a Broadway assignment four years later; he directed a one-man show starring Mike Tyson that examined the boxer's life inside & outside the ring. It lasted 10 performances.