Profile for Sally Durant Plummer

MemorableUserName said: "In the musical, Hurder did a pretty stellar version of "Let's Be Bad" herself to kick off Act 2, only to transition to the creatives conferring backstage and Nigel the director saying she's doing terrible out there. Like...no, she's not. We just saw her and it was great."

Funny, I watched “Let’s Be Bad” and thought… “wow, I know i’d been hoping for then to be more like the show an

Apologies to the mostly talented cast but this was a mess.

I have no idea who this show is for. It's not for fans of the show, because every trace of it has been erased from this musical. It's not for fans of musical comedies, because the characters are so paper-thin and we learn nothing about them that there's nothing to hold onto. And - as hard as it tries - it's really not that funny. It's a bunch of trite plotpoints sculpted together into what resembles a musica

IDK, after seeing both shows I really don't know how this is even a question.

Audra brings interesting insights and a professional rendering of the score, but the production falls so short of the last revival (a Gypsy without a magnetic Gypsy Rose Lee!) that I can't really separate her from my disappointment. And this is a perfect show, with every opportunity and more to blow you away. Add in that Audra's voice is just... not meant for the score, and it's a let

Listener said: "Please do say, Sallu D. In fact, say as much as you can because it didn't seem perfect to me at all.After the initial "oh they're filming as if it's amovie" idea sank in....all I saw were actors interrupted by camera men. The use of the footage was not really impressive. It didn't elevate the storytelling."

Well, different strokes for different folks! I understand why some people hated this, I just happen

I had the pleasure of finally seeing this production last night, and it is easily one of the most thrilling nights at the theatre of my life.

There are almost no words for how totally Jamie Lloyd has transformed a laborious, lumbering musical into a completely original, transfixing, and haunting piece of art. This is brutalism at its finest, beating the material into submission, and remaking it into your own image. And what an image it is: a non-stop parade of completely arresting

BWAY Baby2 said: "The goal of the color blind casting- so prominent now in all sectors of show business- is to cast someone in a role who can act the role- regardless of their racial identity. Audra is not playing a BLACK woman- she is acting and singing a role as it is written- it is not a story about race and discrimination during the Burlesque era- so why would you expect it to be just because Audra was cast. Race is not broached in Gypsy- and in many shows- but many other subject

CurtainsUpat8 said: "I am a playwright with published works. "Gypsy" was written about the experiences of a white woman in a certain situation in a specific time and place. That experience would be different if the character was Black in the same situation and time and place. It would be written differently. You can't shoehorn the two experiences together. It doesn't do anyone any good.
Write a new Gypsy from a Black characters experience. So many of you are ju

TheOnlyOne, I don’t disagree with the content of what you’re saying, but it does seem like you’re responding to criticism that isn’t there… 

Saying “I didn’t get misogynoir from xy scene” isn’t the same thing as saying “that scene does not & cannot facilitate a conversation on misogynoir.” And while I appreciate hearing other perspectives on how some DO see a conversation about misogynoir in that scene, it shou

corninthesky said: "I would also agree that Audra’s voice will either work for you or it won’t. If you go in expecting Patti, you won’t walk out happy, but this was my first live Gypsy and I thought she absolutely nailed it."

I do tend to agree that Audra’s voice will either work for you or won’t, but I do think it warrants some conversation about this score in particular (and I’m not saying you disagree, cornerinthesky). For m

verywellthensigh said: "People. This is coming from someone who never thought she was the right actor for this role:

It's an early preview.

Audra is not a goddess. She has to work through an actor's process like anyone else.

It sounds like this is on par with Bette Midler in early Dolly previews. She, too, was working through process. Don't like it? Don't go to an early preview."

It doesn’t sound like most po

binau said: "Sorry I know odd to focus on this but I was looking forward to the Gypsy overture and yet they started with the lights on and everyone talked over it. What the ****? Did they just run out of time and start playing it as they had no other option?"

I found the audience last night to be so rude. Talking over the Overture and Entr’acte and the people behind me were acting as if they were at a drag shows - yelling “werk,” “eat it u