Parade - Ben Platt
Parade - Ben Platt
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Swing Joined: 3/1/23
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Swing Joined: 3/1/23
#4Parade - Ben Platt
Posted: 7/19/23 at 1:49pm
I don't know if Ben Platt has ever missed a scheduled performance, has he? Also, from recent reports his vocals seem to be holding out well (I did feel during DEH they got a bit tired). Just so happy how much this revival worked out in nearly every aspect (at least for me).
"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
Pashacar
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/18
#5Parade - Ben Platt
Posted: 7/19/23 at 5:02pm
binau said: "I don't know if Ben Platt has ever missed a scheduled performance, has he? Also, from recent reports his vocals seem to be holding out well (I did feel during DEH they got a bit tired). Just so happy how much this revival worked out in nearly every aspect (at least for me)."
In prior shows, I don't know, but he hasn't been missed one in Parade.
And I agree that it's all just working nicely. Funny to remember how many people were saying they were crazy to transfer, he wasn't a draw, etc.
