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[[Theatrical Productions]] are ephemeral. Even if a production is recorded on film, the actual experience can never be exactly reproduced. This quality is arguably the quality, along with the live performance thereof, that distinguishes theatre from other forms of art. This is what enables plays to be performed dozens, hundreds, or thousands of different times.
So let's say you have a famous show that is always thought of as being performed or interpreted in a certain way. Then one day somebody decides to revive it, but with a big twist on the plot that changes the way the entire production is done. Congratulations, you've got yourself an
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* Similarly, the newest film version of ''[[Chicago]]'' set all but two of the musical numbers as part of Roxie's imagination.
* The original production of ''[[Assassins (theatre)|Assassins]]'' was off-Broadway at Playwright's Horizons. The Broadway production was the first time the idea of [[The Narrator|the Balladeer]] {{spoiler|turning into Lee Harvey Oswald}} was implemented.
* Many, many, ''many'' productions of any Shakespeare
** Instead of painting his face black to play [[Othello]], [[Patrick Stewart]] played the titular role in a racially inverted production, opposite an otherwise all-black cast. This was by all accounts one of the more unusual productions of the play in recent memory.
*** To be clear, this is generally perceived (amongst those involved in theatre, at least) to be ''awesome''.
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