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Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#75
Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:13am
"This really is the William Shatner School of Singing. Watching it again, it only gets worse."
I didn't see any anger either, unless the seething at the end was supposed to be. thanks for posting.
I want to give her the benefit of the doubt, and not seeing ALNM I can only go by what people are saying about the shows they have seen, which is mixed.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#76
Posted: 6/15/10 at 9:25pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUGkjNTRoNo
Better quality.
I love from 2:30-2:40...."There aught to be clowns" head turn at every syllable..almost :P.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#78
Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:59pm^ LOL!
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#82
Posted: 6/15/10 at 11:12pmI hear she was smoking a fag backstage, that can't help.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#83
Posted: 6/15/10 at 11:20pmShe smoked during her pregnancies, too.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#84
Posted: 6/15/10 at 11:53pm
I'm in love with this whole thread.
making screencaps has never been so much fun...
"The wee folk and the grown folk Who wander to and fro Have ways known to their own folk We throne folk don’t know" -Camelot
"Just remembering that you had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before" -Into the Woods
"Enjoy your party..." -Company
"The thing about explorers is, they discover things that are already there." -In Trousers
"How do you know what you want 'til you get what you want and you see if you like it?" -Into the Woods
"I feel so much spring within me, blow winds blow, spring has just begun. And something's taken wing within me. What was dark so long had felt like winter, finally there's sun." -A New Brain
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#85
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:01am
"I'm in love with this whole thread.
making screencaps has never been so much fun..."
"Desi no want...." hysterical!
on the (over) enunciation, the only word i really noticed was nexT.
- i don't hate smokers though. how did they allow smoking back stage out of curiousity? they still allow that? even stars need to smoke outside in most places. or so i thought.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#86
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:04am
not, "next"
"NNEEEEEEXX....X....TTT. YEAAAHHHHHYUHHHHHRR"
I wish I could have been the guy hired to write closed captions for the Tonys.... oh man...
(also, how do you get pictures to show up here?)
"The wee folk and the grown folk Who wander to and fro Have ways known to their own folk We throne folk don’t know" -Camelot
"Just remembering that you had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before" -Into the Woods
"Enjoy your party..." -Company
"The thing about explorers is, they discover things that are already there." -In Trousers
"How do you know what you want 'til you get what you want and you see if you like it?" -Into the Woods
"I feel so much spring within me, blow winds blow, spring has just begun. And something's taken wing within me. What was dark so long had felt like winter, finally there's sun." -A New Brain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#87
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:05amActually, if you're a smoker, you should smoke just before you perform. It keeps the phlegm down. I don't condone smoking but it's true... and only IF you're already a smoker.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#88
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:12amOMG! I can't stop laughing at that screencap with the "Desi no want you to send the cwowns!" caption. Priceless!
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#89
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:16amLOL. I even enjoyed that screencap.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#90
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:27am
So, what we've really discovered in the process of this thread is that Catherine Zeta-Jones will be playing Norma Desmond?
I mean, she's got the face down. And, those keys can be lowered....a few more times.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#91
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:30am
^
that's because you have a sense of humour. :)
Marquise...that is very Norma Desmond
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#92
Posted: 6/17/10 at 11:53am
When Zeta Jones sang Send in the Clowns on the Tony Awards it was as if she was channeling Beth Leavel's performance in DROWSY CHAPERONE. (I'm not knocking Leavel's sublime performance but it sure would be inappropriate to play Desiree that way.)
Beth Leavel As We Stumble Along
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#93
Posted: 6/17/10 at 12:05pm
I saw A Little Night Music last night and now I understand the odd Tony Performance. It fits with the (odd)acting choices that she made.
But it's good to know that she went to the Patti LuPone School of Diction. Last night, she swallowed the last syllable of nearly every word. "Sen in the clow, there ough to be clow, well mayb nex yea"
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#94
Posted: 6/17/10 at 12:06pm
The similarity is kind of uncanny.
Actually, it occurred to me at the time that she and Michael could have been discussing the idea of her doing a Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard and the image of Carol Burnett's Norma Desmond kind of got frozen in her mind.
edit: fixed "Norma"
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#95
Posted: 6/17/10 at 3:05pm
^classic!
- i thought it was Norah and not Norma
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#96
Posted: 6/17/10 at 3:09pm
CZJ's performance was not her best, but I still liked it. Plus after seeing the Tony's ratings, no one else saw it either, so it won't hurt her. I think she is an exceptional actress and deserved the award. She is exceptional.
I remember when Faith Prince performed from "A Catered Affair"a few years back and she was just awful, but in the show was spot on and very moving.
"And she does reek of ego and self importance."
I can't disagree more. If anything, she is very authentic and open to the point of making fun of herself. She seems to be very genuine, goofy, and speaks off the cuff. I find her sweet and likable. I also happen to like that she is madly in love with her husband and demonstrative-it's cute.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/08
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#97
Posted: 6/17/10 at 8:44pmIt was a peculiar performance. So was Lea Michele's. She oversang and overacted with overtones of anger, too.
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#98
Posted: 6/17/10 at 10:01pmIt seems like she may have tried to adjust the performance for the Tonys or her choices for television and ended up acting "too big" for close-ups. I don't believe she deserves the disrespect she is being shown here. If she were in front of you, you'd all be kissing her arse and congratulating her on her Tony.
Chorus Member Joined: 7/5/05
Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones#99
Posted: 6/17/10 at 10:25pm
Speak for yourself! I most certainly would not! If you don't have anything nice to say, just say NOTHING! That's just what I would have done.
She received the 2010 Tony Award and that's that! I just don't get it, that's all. I saw her in the show and found her amazingly "beautiful", but "fine" in the role and sometimes "funny". You should not get a Tony for just being decent. It's like all these "standing ovations" we see all the time nowadays.... what the Hell is that about? Marian Seldes deserved hers because her contribution to the theater has been astounding. But just about anything and everything gets one these days. Drives me crazy!
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