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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: "Googling" (looking up information on the internet) has fallen by the wayside
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: "Googling" (looking up information on the internet) has fallen by the waysidewayside.
* ShoutOut: While waiting for Dallas, Kane, and Lambert to return from the derelict, Ripley says "I've got a bad feeling about this" and Ash replies "[[Franchise/StarWars I wonder where I've heard that before]]".
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: During one intermission, the Alien stalks about among the audience in near total darkness, occasionally being illuminated by stage lights for a jump scare.
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* AdaptationalComicRelief: Brett and Parker are portrayed here in a more comedic light as ThoseTwoGuys, making jokes and banter during intermission scenes. Naturally, when Brett dies, [[ShooOutTheClowns things take a turn for the darker.]]
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!!''Alien: The Play'' contains the following tropes:
* ApprovalOfGod: When Ridley Scott funds your encore performance and Sigourney Weaver herself attends it to congratulate and hug you, you know you've got the ultimate seal of approval.
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* ApprovalOfGod: When Ridley Scott funds your encore performance and Sigourney Weaver herself attends it to congratulate and hug you, you know you've got the ultimate seal of approval.provides examples of:
!!''Alien: The Play''
* ApprovalOfGod: When Ridley Scott funds your encore performance and Sigourney Weaver herself attends it to congratulate and hug you, you know you've got the ultimate seal of approval.
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[[caption-width-right:350:On stage, no one can hear you scream.]]
What comes into mind whenever a high school stage play is brought up? Literary classics like Shakespeare? Or perhaps The ''Wizard of Oz?''
Well, that wasn't the case for the theater club of North Bergen High School of New Jersey, who in 2019 made a school play of none other than... [[Creator/RidleyScott Ridley Scott's]] ''Film/{{Alien}}''.
The play initally ran in 2019 with very little fanfare before gaining plenty of traction online after a Reddit post went viral. Attention to the production eventually gained much public attention to the point that [[ApprovalOfGod even Sigourney Weaver herself]] endorsed the production and attended its showing in person, and director Ridley Scott donated $5,000 to fund an encore release of the show.
[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3VaFG7AvU The full production can be watched here.]]
!!''Alien: The Play'' contains the following tropes:
* ApprovalOfGod: When Ridley Scott funds your encore performance and Sigourney Weaver herself attends it to congratulate and hug you, you know you've got the ultimate seal of approval.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Ripley has red hair in this version.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Brett and Parker are portrayed here in a more comedic light as ThoseTwoGuys, making jokes and banter during intermission scenes. Naturally, when Brett dies, [[ShooOutTheClowns things take a turn for the darker.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A couple of jokes are added in by the comic-relief portrayal of Brett.
* DenserAndWackier: The portrayal of Brett and Parker as the two comic-relief side characters.
* GenreSavvy: Brett muses that he feels like he's "In one of those movies where everyone dies."
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: "Googling" (looking up information on the internet) has fallen by the wayside
* LighterAndSofter: A few intermissions add some light-hearted jokes and humor, but manage to keep the suspense when the story really gets going. Brett and Parker become ThoseTwoGuys as comic relief.
* MediumBlending: Some live performances are intercut with overhead projections of clips of the Nostromo and the derelict ship on an overhead projection, as well as with the scene of Dallas's death which incorporates footage of ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation''.
* MythologyGag: A couple of quotes from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' are thrown in despite being an adaptation of the first film, such as Brett quoting Hudson "It's game over, man! Game over!" and Ripley saying "Get away from her, you bitch!" as she launches the alien out of the airlock.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Some aspects of the original film had to be changed to accommodate the format of a live stage play. For example, Brett's death is changed to being snatched through a vent by the alien rather than being lifted through the rafters, and Ash's severed head is simply shut off rather than incinerated (for obvious safety reasons).
* RaceLift: The originally black Parker is played by a white actor in this adaptation.
* ScreenToStageAdaptation: An unofficial fan-made one, but one actually enjoyed and endorsed by the director of the original and attended by the film's lead star to make an opening speech.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Brett is portrayed here as more of a comic-relief character prone to wisecracks and fourth-wall breaks. Naturally, once he is killed by the Alien, the play takes on a more serious tone.
* ShownTheirWork: The play features a fight between Ripley and Lambert in the med lab: a scene originally only in the Director's cut of the film. It also adds the subplot of their science officer being replaced by Ash two days before the mission, a detail present in the screenplay but not the final film.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The more comedic portrayal of Brett and Parker come off as this.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: During one intermission, the Alien stalks about among the audience in near total darkness, occasionally being illuminated by stage lights for a jump scare.
[[caption-width-right:350:On stage, no one can hear you scream.]]
What comes into mind whenever a high school stage play is brought up? Literary classics like Shakespeare? Or perhaps The ''Wizard of Oz?''
Well, that wasn't the case for the theater club of North Bergen High School of New Jersey, who in 2019 made a school play of none other than... [[Creator/RidleyScott Ridley Scott's]] ''Film/{{Alien}}''.
The play initally ran in 2019 with very little fanfare before gaining plenty of traction online after a Reddit post went viral. Attention to the production eventually gained much public attention to the point that [[ApprovalOfGod even Sigourney Weaver herself]] endorsed the production and attended its showing in person, and director Ridley Scott donated $5,000 to fund an encore release of the show.
[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3VaFG7AvU The full production can be watched here.]]
!!''Alien: The Play'' contains the following tropes:
* ApprovalOfGod: When Ridley Scott funds your encore performance and Sigourney Weaver herself attends it to congratulate and hug you, you know you've got the ultimate seal of approval.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Ripley has red hair in this version.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Brett and Parker are portrayed here in a more comedic light as ThoseTwoGuys, making jokes and banter during intermission scenes. Naturally, when Brett dies, [[ShooOutTheClowns things take a turn for the darker.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A couple of jokes are added in by the comic-relief portrayal of Brett.
* DenserAndWackier: The portrayal of Brett and Parker as the two comic-relief side characters.
* GenreSavvy: Brett muses that he feels like he's "In one of those movies where everyone dies."
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: "Googling" (looking up information on the internet) has fallen by the wayside
* LighterAndSofter: A few intermissions add some light-hearted jokes and humor, but manage to keep the suspense when the story really gets going. Brett and Parker become ThoseTwoGuys as comic relief.
* MediumBlending: Some live performances are intercut with overhead projections of clips of the Nostromo and the derelict ship on an overhead projection, as well as with the scene of Dallas's death which incorporates footage of ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation''.
* MythologyGag: A couple of quotes from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' are thrown in despite being an adaptation of the first film, such as Brett quoting Hudson "It's game over, man! Game over!" and Ripley saying "Get away from her, you bitch!" as she launches the alien out of the airlock.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Some aspects of the original film had to be changed to accommodate the format of a live stage play. For example, Brett's death is changed to being snatched through a vent by the alien rather than being lifted through the rafters, and Ash's severed head is simply shut off rather than incinerated (for obvious safety reasons).
* RaceLift: The originally black Parker is played by a white actor in this adaptation.
* ScreenToStageAdaptation: An unofficial fan-made one, but one actually enjoyed and endorsed by the director of the original and attended by the film's lead star to make an opening speech.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Brett is portrayed here as more of a comic-relief character prone to wisecracks and fourth-wall breaks. Naturally, once he is killed by the Alien, the play takes on a more serious tone.
* ShownTheirWork: The play features a fight between Ripley and Lambert in the med lab: a scene originally only in the Director's cut of the film. It also adds the subplot of their science officer being replaced by Ash two days before the mission, a detail present in the screenplay but not the final film.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The more comedic portrayal of Brett and Parker come off as this.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: During one intermission, the Alien stalks about among the audience in near total darkness, occasionally being illuminated by stage lights for a jump scare.
