Did hearing/seeing/performing the reading make you understand it differently?

Seeing the play acted out by people in my class made me understand the play in a different way. The reason why I say this is because, when I was reading the play in my head, I couldn't really visualize how the person would say things and the setting of where he was talking. When I saw people in my class reading the play and showing pictures and music in the background, I was able to imagine the way the story was being told since I saw a visualization of my classmates reading in front of everyone. Adding the music and pictures helped as well because it gave me a few ideas of how the mood of a play can be either dark or happy.