Vanessa Williams in Chicago

[me101]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:02pm

I heard thet Vanessa was offered the part of Velma in the movie but turned it down. I think she would be a great Velma, she does the bitchy attitude really well and she's a very good singer. What do you guys think?

Updated On: 1/9/05 at 04:02 PM

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:07pm

AHHHH!! I am still traumatized from seeing her in Into the Woods.

[aspiringguy715]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:11pm

*calms BwayBoy down*

I haven't heard her, but from what people have told me, she was horrible in ITW. From those opinions, I'm guessing she wouldn't be that great.

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:13pm

I've never seen her on stage, but I do like her voice a lot. It's not amazing, but it's very pleasant sounding. Just hearing her voice on a cd is nice.

[broadwayguy2001]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:17pm

I agree...I have never seen her, but I do love her soothing voice on the revival cd of ITW :)

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:19pm

I haven't heard her on ITW, but she sounds beautiful on Save the Best For Last and Love Is(her duet with Brian McKnight).

[zepka102]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:22pm

i can actually see her singing all that jazz

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:31pm

She is good in a recording studio, where they can edit it together and make her sound good. Which is what they do in movies, so I guess she would of been fine.

However when she is live, and singing Sondheim, it was just painful.

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:36pm

I saw her doing like an hour long Proactiv program last night when I couldn't sleep lol. She is a gorgeous woman.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 4:47pm

She did suck monkey balls in INTO THE WOODS - she was absolutely horrendous. I do think, though, that she would make a pretty good Velma in CHICAGO - she's more like that haracter and her voice is more fit for that score. She should never sing Sondheim again.

[AnothaPartofMe]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 5:00pm

It's so strange... in her pop music, she has such a great, melting voice ("Save the Best for Last"), but in her Broadway turns, she has a very nasal and hard tone (KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN and INTO THE WOODS)... maybe that's her 'character voice'.

Oh, and back when the movie was in talks in the mid-90s, the original three ladies were Goldie Hawn as Roxie, Madonna as Velma Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell as Mama Morton.

[perfusion]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 5:09pm

I think she would have made a terrific Velma.

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 5:31pm

STOP, in the name of love!

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 5:32pm

whoever doesn't like Vanessa Williams can kiss my puerto rican @$$

you all are a bunch of haters..the woman is a godess

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/9/05 at 5:36pm

The woman can sing. She is an excellent singer.

She was a great Rosie in the Bye Bye Birdie TV movie, and sounded beautiful on the Rosie songs.