re: Steel Pier
Jan 12
2008, 11:26:13 AM
Me too. I saw it and loved it. A few weeks later, it has closed.
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re: Foster Will Be Molina in DC SPIDER WOMAN
Jan 12
2008, 11:23:44 AM
Malcolm Gets would be my choice.
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re: Stae Fair: Original Cast Recording
Jan 12
2008, 11:20:39 AM
oh dear...never mind.
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Stae Fair: Original Cast Recording
Jan 12
2008, 11:07:16 AM
I always assumed that "Isn't It Kinda Fun" was sung by McArdle and Scott Wise. The song had such a great dance arrangement that it seemed a perfect fit for Scott's talents. I just discovered after 100 years of listening to the song that it's Ben Wright singing, not Scott Wise!
ETA: Ok now I'm confused. It is Scott Wise singing "Isn't It Kinda Fun." But isn't it Ben Wright who is in love with McArdle?
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re: Question for Follies and Dorothy Collins fans
Jan 12
2008, 09:41:07 AM
There is a a very touching anecdote about Dorothy Collins and Alexis Smith in Ted Chapin's book Everything Was Possible
Both were invited to Houston in 1985 when a producer mounted a production of Follies to open a new theater. He seated them together. At the end of the first act-yes, by then the show most often played with an intermission-Alexis grabbed Dorothy by the arm and pulled her out of her seat, out of the auditorium, into some out-of-the way place where they cou
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Betty Buckley's Sunset Boulevard: Where is
Jan 12
2008, 09:26:18 AM
Such a gorgeous voice, it's a shame "The Perfect Year" wasn't recorded.
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re: Question for Follies and Dorothy Collins fans
Jan 12
2008, 09:22:02 AM
-the sun comes up...
No one sang it better than Dorothy Collins. Perfection.
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re: Patti LuPone GYPSY: 'At Last'
Jan 12
2008, 09:20:43 AM
I love Patti LuPone but I've gotta say that Ethel, Angela, Tyne and Betty Buckley all impressed me much more than Patti did as Mama Rose.
I have seen Betty Buckley, Tyne Daly and Patti Lupone in Gypsy.
Ethel Merman and Angela Lansbury I just know from their recordings.
ETA: Yes. I did leave out Bette Midler. on purpose.
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re: Chita Rivera-A Dancers Life
May 31
2007, 05:41:32 PM
Betty, I think what you said is on the money. I shouldn't feel embarassed when I see an older performer not quite as forceful as when he was younger, but I am. Just a little bit. Much like my racism and sexism, ageism has been carefully and quitely taught in our society.
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re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.
May 31
2007, 05:23:51 PM
Apples and oranges, but here 'tis...
Nine.
I bought the LP when I was 22 and 17 years later saw the Banderas production. I went in thinking that I'd be bored silly when Chita wasn't on stage.
Wrong!
Nine was a show that I listened to once and with the exception of "Unusual Way," did not listen to it again.
Now I really like the whole musical.
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