Profile for Reginald Tresilian

I'd go.

I expect Fantod got a bunch of PMs. And I admire everyone's discretion.

I was typing at the same time as Wayman, who has a much more complete list.

I can think of David Henry Hwang, B. D. Wong, Lea Salonga, and Ruthie Ann Miles. There may be a fifth, but I can't think of who (or quickly find the answer via Google).

And I read somewhere that only 5 Asians have ever won a Tony, though Caucasians have won 28 Tonys for their work on Asian-themed shows. Interesting if true (and I expect it is).

I think it is, too. Though the first non-white Best Actress winner wasn't until 2004.

What can you expect from someone who has a picture of Eva Braun as their avatar?

"Cinematographic"?

I've loved The Wiz ever since I stumbled across the OCR and begged my mother to let me buy it. And when I begged her to take me to see the original tour (I did a lot of begging as a kid), I loved it even more--and so did she. I didn't care for the movie (poor Mom actually went and sat in the car rather than see it through), but I recently saw concert versions at both 54 Below and at SummerStage, and I love it still. Neither of the latter made use of the book, of course, and I don't doubt ther...

I was just talking about the Les Mis recording. But you're right; her final performances of Evita sound as though her cab is outside with the meter running.

That tempo would have been the conductor's choice, since all of her lines are sung except for "Give me that letter back."

I liked this response:

One show only; kind of a snuff play.

^ Finally, that musical version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? we've all been waiting for!

But then I have always found it difficult to sexualize Julie Andrews. Even when she showed her boobies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9O8wzkhRRg

No sentence beginning with "Though the entire audience would like to . . . " can end with anything approaching accuracy.

The 1903 Wizard has long been on my time-travel wish list.

Stratas famously missed a lot of performances at the Met due to illness, but I don't recall hearing that she missed performances of "Rags" (of which there weren't that many anyway). Of course, I could be wrong.

I only ever heard positive things about Stratas's behavior (including from someone in the show).There was much to like about it, including some gorgeous music--and singing--but as Wilmingtom says, there seemed to be a good half dozen plot lines. But Stratas, Kuhn, and Kert were all wonderful, I thought.

I wouldn't necessarily call the music poorly chosen, but it certainly ranged all over the globe, which struck me as a little odd.I'd love to see this Josie again; I can only imagine she'd deepen an already lovely performance.