Winokur is back?

[pattilupuppy]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 12:19am

Really? I havent heard anything about this.... just saw it on playbill
Updated On: 12/9/08 at 12:19 AM

[emo_geek]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 12:25am

You didn't know?!? It was all over the Ryan O'Connor Show.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 12:29am

She got BACK!

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 1:26am

https://www.playbill.com/news/article/93240.html

https://thecelebritycafe.com/features/21877.html

https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/marissa-jaret-winokur-returns-to-hairspray/

https://www.broadway.com/Marissa-Jaret-Winokur-to-return-to-Hairspray/broadway_news/5015688

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=985137#3724118

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=984662#3720274

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=984666#3719776

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=986054&dt=7&boardid=1

I haven't heard anything, either. :-P

Updated On: 12/9/08 at 01:26 AM

[zamedy]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 1:20pm

Is anyone going tonight? Please post a review if you are!

[allyk]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 6:31pm

Not going tonight but will be there tomorrow afternoon. I can review if no one goes tonight.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 10:58pm

Just got back---- she was SO good !!! Her dancing (at least her timing) seemed to be a bit off (I guess to be expected), but she sounded amazing !!!

Huge entrance applause and she was given roses at the end of the show.

One little cute ad-lib--- right before she asks mom to be her agent, she said "Asian" instead. Harvey replied... "dont know any asians, but there is a Filipino down the block"- Marissa started to laugh, and replied back that she was taken her "Asian" with her.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 11:22pm

This show needs more Asians!
Her dancing was off?
(expected???)

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 11:47pm

Because this is her first stage performance in 3 years.

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 11:54pm

Just a heads up.

MJW will be on "Holidays with the Stars" on E! this Friday at 6PM.

[zamedy]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 1:09am

So happy to hear she sounded so good. I'm sure her dance timing will quickly improve. She'll be fine. It must have been awesome to see Harvey and her together again. They have such great chemistry, don't they? Can't wait to see them myself!

Just one quick question Testing1232 -- You said she got huge entrance applause. The first time we see Tracy is in "Good Morning Baltimore" a few seconds before her singing in the song actually starts. So did the huge entrance applause basically drown out her singing at first? Was it a pretty good audience? And did the cast seem fresh and energized?

Sorry.. I guess that was more than just one quick question. :)

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 1:18am

In all fairness (and with all due respect) Marissa has ALWAYS been 'off' with her dancing. She CAN dance, but she's never been with the music -- she always is a beat off or so. I've seen her countless times in HAIRSPRAY and always noticed this every single time.

She also proved this to millions on DANCING WITH THE STARS. If you go back and watch her routines, you'll see she's always off -- either too fast or just a beat off with the music.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 6:50am

<< Because this is her first stage performance in 3 years>>

Yep... didnt think that really needed more explanation, but anyway..... this is BWW.

Brody... agree somewhat about her dancing/timing, but it was very noticible last night. I am sure she will get much better.

As far as the entrance applause.. started BEFORE the bed could even be seen. Lot of anticipation (and Marissa Perry!) in the audience.

[Broadway212]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 7:35am

Was the lottery more crowded?

[Testing1232]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 9:13am

Meant to mention that--- people were buying Student Rush at
6:15 !! (show was at 7)

Theatre was around 70% full, at best.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 9:22am

Lottery wasn't very crowded at all. Nearly everyone who entered won.

It was a wonderful performance. Marissa's dancing was indeed off, but she made up for it. Harvey is just hysterical. Susan Mosher was ad libbing like crazy. She even messed up her "Think of me as a mother... who eats her young." line because she was making fun of a guy in the front row fixing his glasses. So she ended up breaking character, and then blurting out "They're like my children... and I'm going to eat you all!"

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 10:21am

Testing1232, HAIRSPRAY has a student rush policy? I thought it was strictly a lottery?

[TIGGOSAURUS]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 10:55am

I would have liked to have seen Marissa Winkour back on stage with Harvey, but I'd already arranged my trip before she was announced (thought Marissa Perry was excellent, nice to hear she was there last night). Such a shame the theatre wasn't full - I would have expected lottery to be over-subscribed if nothing else.

One little thing, I'm sure Harvey used a line about not being Asian but knowing a Filipino family down the street in one of the shows I saw. (I like his ad-libs for Miss Motormouth. I've heard him call her Miss Motorola, Miss Mojave and something like Miss Mocolotion in various shows).

[zamedy]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 11:29am

Marissa Perry was in the audience? Wow. I guess she is not as bitter as everyone suggested she was when it was announced that MJW was coming back. Certainly she couldn't hold anything against MJW. I think I remember reading that she came to see the show shortly after it began its run and was blown away by the show and Marissa.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 11:34am

Marissa Perry is still technically with the show.

Her and Annie Funke are "splitting" the Tracy standby track, so both are now covers in the event Marissa Jaret Winokur is out within the next few weeks (which is doubtful.)

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 1:02pm

Annie Funke needs to change her moniker.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 1:36pm

<< Testing1232, HAIRSPRAY has a student rush policy? I thought it was strictly a lottery?
>>

Yep. The people on line in front of me specifically asked for student rush. They were Rear Mezz- I believe $25- $26.

Marissa P was watching (still listed in Playbill) from one of the boxes.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/12/08 at 5:26pm

Yes, Marissa Perry is still a member of the cast. Perry, Funke, and Lori Eve Marinacci all act as Tracy covers until closing. As is common, several of the cast members were watching from the house. Nothing too extraordinary there.

Lottery wasn't bad at all, but then again, I helped a friend at Wicked lottery just after and that was pretty empty by it's own standard.

Hairspray offers student rush tickets on week nights only. Two per ID and the seats are anywhere in the rear mezzanine. Based on availability only. The tickets are $26.50, as are the lottery seats now.

As far as the "Asian ad-lib", Harvey has used variances of that at each of the performances since he has been back. What set Tuesday apart was that, I suppose, Winkour didn't realize he would say that, so she lost it, causing Harvey and then the audience to lose it. Winokur then carried it further by saysing thats he was taking her "New Asian to the Hefty Hideaway and then out on the town!". The one exception I can recall was the night that Harvey chirped in that he didn't know any agents, but got 10% off at the gynocologist.

In regards to calling Motormouth by another name, Harvey started that during his original run, and since he has been back, I have heard Motorhome, Mortorboat, Motorcycle, Motovation and Motocross..

I am glad to say that Winkor is back in top form. Yes, you can tell that she is older and slimmer, but she is showing just why she won that Tony in 2003 and I am grateful for that.. dancing, singing opinions from people aside, her acting is phenominal.

Tuesday was only married by a few tentative moments and a few forgotten lyrics in one song.. but if you don't know the lyrics by heart, you wouldn't have known.

Her entrance applause started out well before the lights were up at the top of the show.

Susan DID have a bit of fun with her intro to "Big Dollhouse", but I won't elaborate further. LOL.


Thankfully and gladly, I was nestled in my favorite batch of lottery seats, so I was pleased.

I also want to point out Charlotte Crossley and her PHENOMINALL and tear jerking "I Know Where I've Been."

Strange as it is, Tuesday's finale curtain call was the first time it TRULY hit me that in just a few short weeks, Hairspray will be closed.I looked around the stange, with the cast, sets, costumes, lights and music and full swing and realized "this is it. I am looking at the complete final company of Hairspray on Broadway" and I couldn't help but tear up.. and lost it during curtain call.

Yes, I am sad.

Perhaps I could write a dissertation about the production after closing. :-P

[erelene@broadway]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 5:33pm

I just returned home from New York, I was there for ten days :)
I too was at MJW return to Hairspray Tuesday. I also won lottery seats, if anyone else here was in the lottery seats where were you sitting, I sat in the middle seat.

[mc1227]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 7:38pm

The first time I saw Hairspray was with Marissa Perry and George Wendt in the roles this past spring.

I went back this past week and saw Harvey and the original Marissa and I have to say, there was NO comparison at all. What excitement and electricity. The cast was fantastic and the audience was so into it. It was only Marissa's third show since coming back and I think her voice wasn't anywhere near what it was on the OBC CD. However, her personality really came through and she brought that extra something to the role that I didn't think Marissa Perry did.

Needless to say, Harvey just brought the house down and I couldn't help but think how much better Hairspray the movie musical would have been with him in it.

Another great addition was Link, played by Constantine Roussili (sp?) What a great performer!! While I enjoyed the show the first time around, this past week's performance will always stay in my mind. I can't believe this show is closing.