Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
#0Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 2:58pmI'm listening to Into the Woods and it got me in the mood to post this. I personally love both. Their voices are gorgeous.
#1re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:01pm
Kim, Kim, a thousand times Kim!
Updated On: 9/23/05 at 03:01 PM
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#2re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:02pm
First of all, Kim Crosby.
Second of all, how could Laura Benanti have ever played Cinderella? She was 8 when it opened.
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
#3re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:03pm
Kim Crosby without a doubt.
Benanti bores me.
And for the record, she was Cinderella in the Broadway revival of the show.
#4re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:05pmBobby, Andy refuses to believe that the revival ever happened...
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#5re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:07pm
Hahahahahaha WHAT????
You guys are so crazy...
A revival of Into the Woods...
Thanks for the laugh.
I would LOVE a revival of this show, but I honestly don't see that happening any time soon.
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
#6re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:09pm
My cd of the revival is cracked, and I've only played it once.
I think even the cast recording is trying to self destruct and pretend it doesn't exist.
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#7re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:11pmAnother vote for Kim Crosby.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#8re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:16pm
I thought Benanti was lovely.
But Crosby was sublime!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#9re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:17pmAnd Crosby actually shows up to her performances.
#10re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:21pmAs the recent revival of Follies at BSC proved, Ms. Crosby is one of our most underrated actresses. She's a true diamond and needs to come home to Broadway!
#12re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:34pm
Kim Crosby without a doubt. I'm with andyf on the status of the recent revival that occurred.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
supafreak
Chorus Member Joined: 7/13/05
#13re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:39pmcall me crazy, but Laura B. without a doubt. Kim was completely lovely--thrilling performance, but my $$ is on Ms. B.
"Amen"--Annelle
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#14re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:49pmYou're crazy.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#15re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:50pmYou have lost touch supafreak!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#16re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 3:53pmAs the great American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once remarked, "N*gga, please."
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
#18re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:03pmYou too have lost touch my dear.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#19re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:03pmI vote for Kim because not only is she wonderful, but so is her husband. I love them both!
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#20re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:12pmKIM! She was sublimely perfect...no contest...Kim by a landslide.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~Leonard Bernstein~
supafreak
Chorus Member Joined: 7/13/05
#21re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:56pmwhen it comes to Laura, I have lost touch slightly. she's a goddess. well, in regards to her voice anyway. Laura wins it, if for nothing else, for her last note in No One is Alone. Also for her last note in On the Steps of the Palace, however ill-conceived that moment was--suddenly Jack & Red are there? what the hell?
"Amen"--Annelle
#22re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:59pmKim Crosby. Her performance was excellent.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 5:04pm"I Know Things Now," "Giants in the Sky" and "On the Steps of the Palace" are all musically linked...hard to explain, but there is a rhythmic figure that occurs in all three songs. They are also the three moments of self-discovery for those three characters, which is why the revival brought them together for the end of "On the Steps of the Palace". Thought it was overemphatic, but I understand why they did it.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#24re: Kim Crosby or Laura Benanti?
Posted: 9/23/05 at 5:07pmI saw them both. I loved them both. Why can't I have both?
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