Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
#1Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 5:22pm
Has anyone else heard this rumor?
I hope it's true. Bayardelle is a phenomenal talent.
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#2Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 6:11pm
She is (as far as I know) replacing Krystal Brown, who plays her last performance tomorrow evening.
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#3Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 8:16pm^ All I know of her is that she was Celie in Chicago's run of The Color Purple. I think she did the tour, as well.
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#4Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 8:28pmThe Chicago run was part of the tour, so yes she was.
#5Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 9:02pmShe was the first Celie replacement on Broadway. She replaced LaChanze. Fantasia later replaced Bayardelle. She was a fierce Celie.
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#7Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 9:29pmI'm hearing that Ben Curtis (The Dell Dude) is also joining the HAIR cast.
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#9Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 9:55pm
The Dell Dude will be singing the line:
"Mari Juana, Mari Juana, Wanna Wanna, Mary Mary"
and he will be exposing his hard drive.
#10Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 10:32pm
I'm disappointed Bayardelle won't be playing Dionne (she'd sing the hell out of "Aquarius,") but I'm thrilled to see her back on Broadway regardless.
She'll cover Dionne, at least.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 1/22/10 at 10:32 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#11Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 10:55pmTheaterfan - Only thing I could think of is that he's either taking over for Theo Stockman or Josh Lamon (currently covering Theo's tracks)
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#12Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 11:01pmI could see him taking over for Theo. He seems to have that same zaniness that Theo has.
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#13Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/22/10 at 11:15pmJeannette is very talented. I enjoyed her more in Rent than in TCP.
#14Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/23/10 at 6:31amI thought she was phenomenal in The Color Purple.
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#15Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/23/10 at 11:05am
Jeannette is incredibly talented and one of the great 'quiet' stars of the Broadway stage. Her Celie in CP was stunning: She left it out on the stage every single time I saw her perform. There hasn't been one other Celie who can do this role the vocal justice she did...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUUDx95RWE
Incredible. I'm glad she's back.
Updated On: 1/23/10 at 11:05 AM
#16Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/23/10 at 11:38am
I thought Bayardelle's acting as Celie was just average, sometimes even quite bland. Her strength is her stellar vocal range and execution. Thankfully, with a role like "Dionne," all one really has to do is be sassy, park, and bark.
Bayardelle's "Seasons of Love" solo was darn near perfection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPayGjwzh8Q
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#17Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/23/10 at 12:37pmYay, another LaGuardia vocal major!
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#18Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/23/10 at 12:42pmDoes anyone know if she's going to stay past March 7th, or will she be leaving then?
#19Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/23/10 at 1:00pmThanks for that RENT clip. While I'm not a fan of the show, I did think Bayardelle's solo was perhaps the best vocal I've seen on that particular part. She just nailed it. Sounded effortless.
#20Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/24/10 at 2:40amThat RENT clip takes me back. That was the first cast I ever got to see live and Jeannette sounded phenomenal in person. I saw it in the giant IU Auditorium and here high note really did blow the roof off the place.
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#21Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/24/10 at 3:12amDidn't she leave The Color Purple tour early due to vocal problems?
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#22Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/24/10 at 6:28pmOf course not that's how rumors get started. She left because she was doing it over a year and wanted to move on too other gigs. I liked her better in Rent as well...the best Celie hands down is Fantasia too me, and Montego Glover wasn't too shabby either but thats another topic!
#23Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 1/24/10 at 10:07pm
Other gigs? She didn't have that much else going on and it was well-documented on her Facebook page that she had some vocal node issues she was dealing with. I'm glad she's feeling better and back to performing.
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#24Jeannette Bayardelle Going Into HAIR?
Posted: 2/4/10 at 12:48am
Wow this is Awesome News Jeannette Bayardelle is an Amazing Vocalist and a Dynamic Performer. I hope she will be the new Dionne. She was amazing in the recent production of The Best Of Both Worlds and is one of my Favorite Celies Hands Down. No one can sing that role like her.
Now in regards to the rumors of her leaving the Color Purple because of vocal problems that is inacurate information.I am not sure where you read that on Facebook because that's false. While she was on tour traveling between cities she suffered a severe pulmonary embolism that could have killed her. I am thankful that she survived and is healthy and back on a stage where she belongs. I look forward to seeing her in Hair.
I agree she did sing the mess out of Season's Of Love in Rent
check out this clip Jeannette was the singer for the closing song of Disneys New Mermaid Movie The Little Mermaid Ariels New Begining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTTLwhpNn9Q
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Updated On: 2/4/10 at 12:48 AM
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