The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread- Page 4
The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
#75re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:01pmMarin Mazzie!
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
husk_charmer
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#76re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:01pm
Well that would lead creedance to the Donna Murphy/Marin Mazzie rumor.
What about Joanna Gleason...she should be available.
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#78re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:04pm
I love Gleason, but she has the completely wrong look for Desiree (not to mention the fact that she'll be sixty next year.)
She would have made for an excellent Charlotte some years ago, though.
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.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#79re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:05pm
Donna Murphy doesn't want to do revivals, I thought.
please, it has to be Marin.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#80re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:07pm
somethingwicked-
What is the "completely wrong" look for Desirée?
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#81re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:09pm
Joanna Gleason's skin is flawless.
just putting that out there.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#82re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:12pmGleason doesn't strike me as a sexy swedish actress who two married men would battle over.
#83re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:13pm
husk_charmer, Desiree is supposed to be the epitome of glamour. She's a woman who has been able to use her natural beauty and sensuality to manipulate men for almost her entire life.
While Gleason certainly isn't unattractive, I hardly think she fits that description.
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.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#84re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:15pmI see that starting a new thread really changed a lot!
#85re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:16pm
She's a woman who has been able to use her natural beauty and sensuality to manipulate men for almost her entire life.
like this?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#86re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:20pm
But Glynis Johns, Jean Simmons, Sally Ann Howes and Judi Dench all radiate that? All of them were fabulous Desirées.
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#87re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:24pm
Johns was quite sexy and radiant in her day
And she sure looks like a glamourous Desiree to me 
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#88re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:26pm
ljay-
True, but I'm sure Joanna can look just as glamorous.
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#89re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:28pm
Sally Ann Howes looks pretty good, too. there are clips on THAT site, if anyone hasn't seen them.
ljay, that first pic of Glynis Johns is STUNNING.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#90re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:29pm
Jean Simmons was also quite mesmerizing.
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: 7/22/09 at 11:29 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#91re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:31pmCan we get some young Judi Dench photos? I've never seen any...I imagine it's like seing young Angela Lansbury photos, or a dog walk on its hind legs.
-Benjamin
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#92re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:32pm
Oh for goodness sake, just cast Rachel York already! If Hannah Waddingham isn't coming over after all, she's the way to go, IMO.
I'm torn because I want the cast list now, but have a feeling I'm going to be incredibly disappointed with Desiree's casting (particularly if these Marin Mazzie notions have any truth to them).
#93re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:33pm
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#94re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:33pm
Gleason:
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#95re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:34pm
Can we get some young Judi Dench photos? I've never seen any...I imagine it's like seing young Angela Lansbury photos, or a dog walk on its hind legs.
haha, young Angela Lansbury pictures are mind blowing.
I have no idea how old she is here, but here's a younger Judi Dench as Titania at RSC
haha! qolbinau beat me to it!
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Updated On: 7/22/09 at 11:34 PM
#96re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:35pmWORK!
-Benjamin
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#97re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:35pm
husk_charmer, that photo proves the point being established here: while attractive, Gleason is plain. You're also forgetting the fact that she's far too old for the role.
Besides looks, her personality and delivery lend her as a far stronger Charlotte (when she was appropriate for it) anyway.
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.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#98re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:37pm
here's another baby Judi Dench:
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#99re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/22/09 at 11:37pm
Just for my own amusement:
http://starletshowcase.blogspot.com/2008/03/low-fat-angela-lansbury.html
Also, for some reason THIS showed up when I googled for Angela Lansbury:
Rude
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
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