Jodi Benson
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#1re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:03pm
I know what she ISN'T doing these days.
(Namely The Little Mermaid on Broadway!)
#3re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:07pm
Jon, I think you're an okay person. Perhaps a little too WICKED obsessed, but you'll get over that.
As far as myspace, my name is absteel. Look me up.
And you private message me, yet you don't accept private messages? How am I supposed to respond?
#5re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:13pmShe mostly performs for church groups and the like as well as doing symphony pops concerts. She and her husband are born again christians.
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
#6re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:16pm
I saw her as the narrator in a Donnyless-yet-Osmond-filled Joseph tour not too long ago. It was right after my sister got divorced, so that would be 1998 or 1999.
OK, that was 7-8 years ago. Scratch the "not too long ago" part.
#8re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:20pmI saw her in concert last summer in Millenium Park with Debbie Gravitte and Rebecca Luker. She sang Part of Your World and it was divine. It was especially cute because her family was there and she was all excited about it.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#10re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:24pm
What does "born again Christian" have to do anything with it?
(My opinions about "born again Christians" aren't very good. But I don't know Jodi, so I'm not going to stick her in that category. I think she's a very good Ariel.)
mikeyb16
Broadway Star Joined: 1/22/06
#12re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:48pmJodi's by far 1 of the best singers i have ever heard. what a great voice she has!
#13re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:53pmI saw her in 'Chess' at the North Shore Music Theatre in the 90's sometime...
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
#15re: Jodi Benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 5:14pmShe was great as Polly in Crazy For You. Her triple threat performance was sensational. Then she disappeared! I read Karen Ziemba was passed on for Jodi!
#16jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 5:42pm
did she ever end up doing every single member of her hubby's team?
oh wait, that was anna benson...my bad.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#17jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 6:12pmI heard that her religious beliefs got in the way of her doing or saying just about anything even slightly risque on stage. Clearly her stage career was not a priority for her.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 6:20pmI saw Jodi several times in CRAZY FOR YOU. She had trouble sustaining her pitch as the show went on. Clearly, she doesn't have the equipment for long runs.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#19jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 6:23pm
From experience with "born agains", they're whores/sluts/drug users/alcoholics in their "past life" and then all of a sudden they're this perfect human being.
Hardly the fact.
And again, I don't know Jodi. I have no idea what caused her to be "born again".
I just don't believe it can happen.
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#20jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:02pm
I think the fact that they were born again Christians came up in the context of her singing for church groups. (I'm one too, and trust me, we're waaay far from perfect. 
)
I saw her and loved her in "Crazy for You," and I know she's done some other musicals, including "South Pacific" -- in L.A., I think. She's done a lot of voice work too, for varoius animated shows and movies.
#21jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:03pm
Uh, yeah, namely The Little Mermaid.
I could sing for a church group and still be a homo.
Becky
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#22jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:11pmWhen I saw her as the narrator (phenominal by the way) in the Joseph tour, she was at the stage door talking about her pregnancy. Perhaps she's focusing on her family?
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#23jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:18pmI didn't mean "The Little Mermaid"; I meant other shows and movies since then. IMDb lists a slew of them.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#24jodi benson
Posted: 8/3/06 at 8:16pm
I recal when Crazy for You opened, many critics who otherwise loved the show felt that Benson and Goroener lacked charisma. Within a few weeks, the now defuct Theatre Week Magazine had a slew of Letters to the Editor offering suggestions on who should replace the two leads (this was back in 1992, before internet chatrooms and message boards became popular). People were making goofy suggestions like Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters!
Yes, the original casting came down to Jodi and Karen. Karen did the first national tour, and then replaced Jodi on Broadway, doing the role for a much longer run than Jodi had.
Shortly after, the same director, the late Mike Ockrent, was casting "big - the musical", and it came down to Karen Ziemba and Christa Moore for the female lead. Again, he passed on Karen and chose Christa. Of course, that show was a huge flop.
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