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Christina isn't bad - she DOES have a very generic Broadway voice, so if you want the score sung predictably [but still as shrill and thin in the higher register as Elena] then go for Christina. If you can see them both, it'd be worth it. Elena for me is a dynamo. She is fierce in this role. I don't think I could bring myself to see anyone other than her in this production....

Wouldn't it be delicious and wonderful if there were message boards 30-40 year ago, and we could read the obsessive nightly bitching about Patti Lupone's screechy vocals because she couldn't sing the score properly, and how much better Terri Klausner was [which by many accounts she was]. Patti Lupone is remarkable, but even SHE has freely and constantly admitted she didn't sound like the OBCR or Tony Awards most of the time. From some audience reports [and reviews], she screeched through the ...

Having seen Audra 2 weeks ago, and seen Jan lat September and again the other day.... I feel terribly sorry for Jan, she gives an astonishing performing [that most other years will be a guaranteed award], but nobody [!!] could beat Audra as Bess. Audra is DEFINITELY going to win the Tony, there's literally no contest. None at all.

I think Anna Francolini should play Diana - one of my favourite British actresses. I think she'd have a good enough voice, too.