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This 4 page paper discusses the play "Carnival!" and why it would be particularly adapted to production on a thrust stage. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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(Monte, 2002). MGM wanted to buy the film rights, but felt the reference to Kukla, Fran and Ollie was too blatant, so Gallico rewrote his story, setting it in Paris
and making it much darker (Monte, 2002). The rewrite was dubbed inappropriate for the family film MGM wanted to make, so they hired Helen Deutsch to adapt the story for
a musical; the result was the film Lili, starring Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer and Jean-Pierre Aumont (Monte, 2002). The film is enchanting, with a sweetness that is rare; the song
"Hi Lili, Hi Lo," is from this movie. The movie was a huge success and the rights were then bought by legendary Broadway producer David Merrick, who used Deutschs screenplay
as the basis for the stage production (Monte, 2002). Thus, Carnival! became one of the first properties to go from the screen to the stage. Further Discussion The story that
unfolds is that of a love triangle: the girl Lili, the orphan girl who joins the carnival, the crippled puppeteer Paul who loves her but can only express his love
through his puppets, and the flamboyant Marco, the troops magician (Monte, 2002). A carnival is by definition a place of unreality, where things are not as they seem. It is
a "moveable feast of revelry, oddity and entertainments both magical and bizarre" but it also evokes a strange feeling in most people who visit, that there is a "darker realm"
underneath the glitter (Monte, 2002). Indeed, as Monte notes, "[C]arnivals are peopled by misfits, bohemians, and a brotherhood of often-fragile souls who lead a transient, more exotic and less certain
existence than those of us in the normal world" (Monte, 2002). She also observes that at one time or another, most people dream of running off to join the circus,
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