#26
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:49pm
my favorite anecdote about The Immortal Debbie is when she was going to do a GYPSY revival in Los Angeles. Gower Champion was to be the director/choreographer. Supposedly at the table read for the new project, La Deb performed brilliantly, but wanted to discuss one factor afterward, and one factor only: the ending.
She wanted a new song, because (paraphrase) "the audience needs to leave the theatre loving me. They are not going to buy me having a nervous breakdown. That's not Debbie."
Perhaps she was better off sticking to IRENE, MOLLY BROWN LIVE, etcetera. After all, she closed WOMAN OF THE YEAR in two weeks, after Raquie Welch kept it going a respectable amount of time when Betty Bacall left it.
i thought she might have come round about her image, given the wonderful MOTHER film she made with Albert Brooks and her stint as John Goodman's emotionally troubled mother on ROSEANNE. Yet her schtick as Grace's mom is vintage "lovable scamp." Recent casting rumors suggest she is only willing to stretch so far, despite the skills, really, to play anything she set her mind to. She turned down the HAROLD AND MAUDE musical, and has recently been rumored to be considering a tour of NUNSENSE as Mother Superior.
Oh, that Debbie. Carrie will get another book and movie out of her maternal material yet!
She wanted a new song, because (paraphrase) "the audience needs to leave the theatre loving me. They are not going to buy me having a nervous breakdown. That's not Debbie."
Perhaps she was better off sticking to IRENE, MOLLY BROWN LIVE, etcetera. After all, she closed WOMAN OF THE YEAR in two weeks, after Raquie Welch kept it going a respectable amount of time when Betty Bacall left it.
i thought she might have come round about her image, given the wonderful MOTHER film she made with Albert Brooks and her stint as John Goodman's emotionally troubled mother on ROSEANNE. Yet her schtick as Grace's mom is vintage "lovable scamp." Recent casting rumors suggest she is only willing to stretch so far, despite the skills, really, to play anything she set her mind to. She turned down the HAROLD AND MAUDE musical, and has recently been rumored to be considering a tour of NUNSENSE as Mother Superior.
Oh, that Debbie. Carrie will get another book and movie out of her maternal material yet!
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Updated On: 5/3/05 at 01:49 PM
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