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* The 2004 Broadway revival of [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', which sets the whole thing in an insane asylum.

* Similarly, the newest film version of ''[[Chicago]]'' set all but two of the musical numbers as part of Roxie's imagination.

** One memorable Berlin performance of "St. Joan" (in the Deutsches Theater) started out with four actors fighting over who got to play which character, all reading from cheap paperback copies of the play. Once they finally all managed to get a private part in the play, they found themselves stuck in the middle of an [[It Gets Worse]] plot, and desperately tried to stop being these characters again (with varying levels of success). Meanwhile, the actors and a miniature cardboard cityscape were filmed live and projected onto a screen, with the SFX crew clearly visible, and as the plot got more dramatic, the floor disappeared from under the actors, slowly forcing them back towards the screen. On which a counter was displayed showing how many people had died of poverty and hunger worldwide during the performance of the play alone. Oh, and? It ''didn't change or add a single word'' from Brechts original script. The whole thing was a huge [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* A 2011 Los Angeles production of Bernard Pomerance's ''The Elephant Man'' chose to defy in-script instructions that the lead actor not use any kind of makeup/costume to suggest his deformities (he must use body language and vocal distortion instead) in favor of outfitting the performer in an elaborate prostethic suit.

 

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