Profile for BenSaysOiVey

Sorry but if you've ever listened to Bernadette Peters in MACK & MABEL, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, GYPSY or SONG & DANCE you wouldn't be ignorant enough to say she can't belt. I'd add the brilliant belters: Sherie Rene Scott Karen Olivo Lillias White Jennifer Holliday Michele Lee Suttton Foster Andrea Burns Andrea McArdle

Kathryn Hann is the best thing about this play. I'd see it without Whitford and McCormack, not sure I'd see it without brilliant Hann.

Meryl Streep is my favorite screen actress but there is no way that she could pull off Barbara. She is much more appropriate for Violet, and I would actually love to see her tackle that role. I also enjoy the idea of Jane Fonda as Violet, another choice that I would love is Sally Field. The idea of Laura Linney as Barb is great, but I would like to see Rachel Griffith tackle the role (Patricia Clarkson and Toni Collette would work as well). Somethingwicked's suggestion of Kathy Bates as Matti...

I have always thought it would make a fascinating musical in the style of PASSION. Sondheim is of course my top choice with Toni Collette as Laura, Donna Murphy as Clarissa, and maybe someone like Natasha Richardson as Virginia Woolf. Of course all of the ladies from the film have done Broadway and would be great in their roles, but I'd also love to see some of the great dramatic musical theater actresses tackle these fantastic women. I adore both the book and the film, and Philip Glass' scor...

It had to be over a year, because I saw her first last Feb (07) and then this past weekend. But AEA has provisions for vacations...she couldn't have taken a week here or there? Hm, well, glad she's getting a big chunk of time off--anyone would need that!--and will be able to close the run here.

I can't believe I'm the first person to ask this on this...ummm Herman's Parade? Or JRB's Cause that makes ALL the difference. Trust me.

I saw the show when I guess she first started and read her bio and thought wow she can't be that stupid, I'm pretty sure its meant to be a joke/funny but I feel like for bway its a waist of space and just unprofessional, you can be funny and not mock it at the same time. and come off as "special", as in the short bus kind. oh look im yet another person thats not me, way to fix a problem several moths old