Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
#0Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 9:05pm
Hearing Meryl's voice just a few minutes ago on the EMMYS reminded me of how much I love Clarrisa Vaughan.
Do you adore her as much as I?
#1re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 10:46pmBump!
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#3re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 10:56pmFROGS at Yale, no?
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#4re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 10:57pmThat's not something you're likely to see anytime soon. At least not until her kids are all grown.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#5re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 10:58pmYup. She was in the frog chorus, which amuses me to no end.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#6re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:02pmMatt: I know. All the massive fringe benefits of getting her "Seagull" to play on Broadway still didn't convince her. So aside from the lucky few, connected or just plain determined, the rest of us have to wait...
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#7re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:03pmSeeing her in SEAGULL was one hell of an experience. Seeing the great Meryl Streep acting in person is something you just don't forget.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#8re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:12pm
I see you were one of the lucky few...
sigh.
the rest of us just have to wait.
#9re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:13pmI'll look for you n line cookie...I so wanted to see her in Seagull...
#10re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:31pmshe seemed... drunk... during her speech :P
#11re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:32pmNaw, just wise.
#12re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:33pmhahaha guess so... and shes won pretty much every award she could for that role, so why not have fun for the last one
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#13re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:34pmZepka I thought she was weird during her acceptance speech. That bit about Emma Thompson holding a grudge forever was tacky imo.
#14re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:36pmSense of humor.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#15re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:38pmMaybe it was an attempt at humor that didn't translate well on the Emmys. The Emmys is famous for that, you know.
#16re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:39pm
It was the speech of a smart, sophisticated woman who is the greatest actress on Earth.
#17re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:42pmthat's Meryl -- and I think she is magnicent...witty, unscripted and brilliant -- the line about I can sing with that was terrific
#18re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:43pmYou are correct sir.
#19re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:44pmI love her.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#21re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/20/04 at 1:17pmIn some ways, it was a speech only Meryl Streep could deliver. And she got away with the impossible -- with narcissistic glee joking about her own beloved reputation ("...sometimes I don't believe everything about me...but not tonight" or whatever). Daring, that, yet she pulled it off, and the Emma remark as well. But ultimately, by using that strategy to disarm and amuse, she was able to score bigger in her impassioned paean to Kushner -- and the larger issue of the day, "the truth" -- for a socko ending. Gotta love her.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/20/04 at 1:20pm
Auggie - intelligence, awareness and grace go a long way, don't they? I think she shares that with a few extraordinary women - Emma herself comes to mind 
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#23re: Meryl Streep
Posted: 9/20/04 at 1:37pm
Her Arkadina in "Seagull" performance was sublime, especially her scenes with Kevin Kline as Trigorin. I'll never forget the flirtation and chemistry two of them had together (the rest of the cast was hit or miss with Phillip Seymour Hoffman being a bit too overly brooding as Konstantin and Natalie Portman who was embarassingly awful and totally out of her depth as Nina).
(PS -- I got tickets because of my membership to the Public -- two memberships got me a pair of free seats without having to wait in line .... a policy they unfortunately don't have anymore).
Streep's youngest is 13 and will be off to college in five years. She has said one of her top priorities at that point will be to get back to the stage which she's missed terribly over the years. She worked a lot on the New York stage, fresh from Yale in the mid-70s to early 80s, before her movie career took off (Joe Papp saw her in a student production and personally brought her down to work at the Public where she did about a half dozen plays; she was also Tony nominated for her performance in a revival of Tennessee Williams "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" on Broadway). Streep has said she is looking forward to tackling some of the "meaty" roles the theatre has for actresses in their 50s.
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