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Freeze Frame 7130 Ashur Court taywatch aU to r i On bringing her "Search" ''A lot of people wanted to do this as a movie but because the play was so success-fl- it and So successful in its own form - we didn't want to have an inappropriate recont of it Still we hated not to have ANY record Of it and two or three groups offered to let us do it as a film and then decide later whether we wanted to release it Jane had done a book Of rt trying to convey what happens on the stage in a protorial way: if turned out to be a bestseller so she's been able to adapt it to any medium We didn't want a movie of it so much as a (commercial) enterprise but more as a record for ourselvin We lust spent a lot Of time thinkIng about it and we finally felt we'd pushed it too far and considered it too long and we'd never get it done if we didn't' just go ahead and do it" On converting the play to film: "We tried to do every prvtrutation we could We did spiit screens we did cutting between two character and we cut from uldivgdual sets to the main stage When t do the show I usually don't wear any costumes so can move quickly front Character to character and place to place In a funny Imild of veay theft we wanted to theatricalin the film" to the screen: On differences that arose between the stage and film versions' "We tiled to light it the same way as closely as we could but that doesn't necessarily translate to film Then ber111Sf) we had a ontt- ed budget we selected certain segments that we wanted to shoot on sperific sets The concert performance was shot in three days and the other scenes took about a week more On similarities that she also found: "It always SPerrls like the same thing to me feel so close to the material bringing another lend of feeling and 00k to it lust interesting to me What we most wanted to preserve ' Tomlin adds "was the emotionality of this We wanted to make it as emotional on the screen as it man in the theater for the audience They would leap to their feet at the end because they were really moved by the material As yois watch the play unfold in the theater the accumulation of the connections and the intertwining of the characters make it a r ride It comes together so unexpectedly and IS so exhilarating to the audience that's what made it so Willing for me to do it so many times" On the amount of credit she feels is due Wagner's have to stand on the material and have to be emotionally moved mysed IDuring the stage mod it was like playing a piece of' rtluSoe even night and knew if played it well it otooki be a real gift to the audience really wanted to give them that" On the overall career path she's followed ''From the vent beginning there was so much in the sYs term that didn't seem to suit me was sort of left to create my Own obOodundies All you ever want to do s what you like and you think everybody else is going lb like it When I've done stuff that people haven't liked I've been stunned Still that's all you can do and you do it to make yourself happy first" On the two animated script "As an actor soecials she currently is preparing for ABC about one of her most popular characters child the Edith Ann: "It's a total involve- Y rib PCP a iher re° iros Iris r31 ica ha' sh ly I ment Since I've never done something like this before don't want to lust say to Someone 'Buy my character and do what you went t with I'm never too happy about that plus the thrill of making it IS what rs really all about bet we know practically every animator iris the world now' 1 |