Can Cherry Jones sing?
Can Cherry Jones sing?
#1Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:32am
I met Cherry Jones this past week end at The National Theater
one of, if not the nicest person I have ever met at a stage door.
but... I was wondering if she could sing and if she can I wonder how she would be at playing little Eddie.
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#2re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:49am
No,
But she can hum.
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#2re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 10:58amLittle Eddie, Big Eddie, Crazy Eddie...she can do it all!
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#3re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:08am
I think she can carry a tune (didn't she sing in IMAGINARY FRIENDS ?) but little eydie requires someone with legit capabilities. cherry really isn't the right person for that role anyway -- she would be a fab big eydie in act II at some point but that won't be for years.
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Updated On: 3/26/07 at 11:08 AM
MargoChanning
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#4re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:14am
Jones co-starred with Swoosie Kurtz a few seasons back in a play with music called IMAGINARY FRIENDS by Nora Ephron which dealt with the feud between writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy (Jones played McCarthy) in which they both had to do a bit of singing and dancing (Jerry Mitchell did the choreography). While I thought that they both acquitted themselves admirably in both departments, I didn't get a sense that either had the kind of vocal chops one would need to be able to handle a lead role in a true Broadway musical, let alone something like Little Edie which requires a really first rate singer.
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Updated On: 3/26/07 at 11:14 AM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:19amProbably not, but hopefully that won't restrain her from doing MOTHER COURAGE one day.
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#6re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 11:30amI don't think she has the vocal chops, but I'd like to see her in that feature film as Little Edie a helluva lot more than I'd like to see Drew Barrymore. Isn't Little Edie in her 50s? How old is Drew? 25 or something?
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SueleenGay
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#10re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 1:56pm
Acting wise I think there are very few thing Jones couldn't do.
I would have love to have seen her as the Angel in "Angels in America"
#11re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 1:59pm
Oh Sue, some jokes never get old! See, I gave you that one.
I believe Drew is playing Young Little Edie in the film, and Jessica Lange is playing "second act" Little Edie. I could be wrong, but I thought that was how it was working.
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#12re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 2:05pmThen who's singing the solo in "Be Happy?"
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 5:58pmShe knocked the hell out of "It's Getting To Be A Habit With Me" in Doubt
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#14re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 6:05pm
I think she should replace LuPone this summer.
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#15re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 6:18pmLike Margo said, she can sing well enough and would be fine in projects like MOTHER COURAGE and other plays with music. But I don't think she could vocally manage a run in a full-blown musical.
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#16re: Can Cherry Jones sing?
Posted: 3/26/07 at 6:22pmShe would make an Awesome Desiree!!!
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