I just want them to win a Tony each...just putting it out there.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Yes let's write Mazzie a role that is suitable for her voice instead of having her play belty roles that don't show her full potential. Especially if the role has been previously played by a belter.
No, Marin needs to originate. Not be a replacement of a supporting role that sings only one song in a boring overrated show.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Why do people think being a replacement is a step down? Work is work and if given the chance to take on a Tony nominated role, why wouldn't she take it if she had no other offers. Also that boring overrated show is one of the best things to open on broadway in a long time, in my humble opinion.
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Marin Mazzie IS a belter. That is what's so impressive about her voice. It's so versatile.
"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
I'm a young writer. (Really.) I'm going to write Marin a show first. Then Judy. Maybe both-- like a Gwen and Chita thing without a lot of dance. Maybe? But in all seriousness, Marin first, and she'll win. Then another for Judy, and she'll win.
And then they'll win their Tonys and we can all stop complaining, and you can all thank me.
LOL!!! I was not complaining. I just wanted to put it out there I said.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Marin Mazzie (my favorite Broadway actress of all time) needs a wild and crazy musical comedy role, and Judy needs a layered, complex, R&H-esque role. While both are incredibly versatile and have succeeded in the polar opposites of what I've suggested, I have found these to be their strengths.
Maybe Marin in a new Shaiman & Wittman musical directed by Casey Nicholaw and Judy in a new Adam Guettel musical directed by Sam Gold.
I'd love to see Marin as Mama Rose or Norma Desmond, and Judy as Cinderella's fairy godmother or Genevieve in Schwartz's The Baker's Wife.
I'd rather see Kuhn return to SUNSET BOULEVARD as Norma Desmond this time around.
I've heard so many great things about Mazzie in KISS ME, KATE that I agree she should be in a musical comedy. Didn't she also get great word-of-mouth reviews for her performance as Lily Garland in the Actor's Fund benefit?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
"If you make the keys low enough anyone can belt, so I mean technically, but no."
I'd like to see any legit Soprano belt the final "Eve Was Weak" note that Mazzie did or the few notes at the end of "Back to Before". I agree that Mazzie's belt is not quite that of say LuPone or Buckley's (at her peak), but there is something more unique about her voice than can be explained by simply lowering the notes, in my opinion.
"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
I prefer to ignore Mazzie's performance in BULLETS. There's a Mazzie performance I couldn't wait to see that ended up being sadly disappointing. She played it as Norma Desmond and it didn't work but I doubt she is to blame as everyone seems to have been directed to replicate their film counterparts; she was also saddled with some songs that added nothing to the character and had little humor, again, not her fault.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"