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Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
#75Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
"it's a dirty little war"
Updated On: 6/15/10 at 10:13 AM
#76Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#78Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Posted: 6/15/10 at 10:59pm^ LOL!
"it's a dirty little war"
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#82Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Posted: 6/15/10 at 11:12pmI hear she was smoking a fag backstage, that can't help.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#83Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Posted: 6/15/10 at 11:20pmShe smoked during her pregnancies, too.
#84Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Posted: 6/15/10 at 11:53pm
I'm in love with this whole thread.
making screencaps has never been so much fun...
"Another book you thought was best unread has proved, indeed, it was." -Another Sleepless Night -In Trousers
"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
Updated On: 6/16/10 at 11:53 PM
"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
#85Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
"it's a dirty little war"
#86Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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?)
"Another book you thought was best unread has proved, indeed, it was." -Another Sleepless Night -In Trousers
"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
"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
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#87Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#88Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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!
#89Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:16amLOL. I even enjoyed that screencap.
#90Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#91Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Posted: 6/16/10 at 12:30am
^
that's because you have a sense of humour. :)
Marquise...that is very Norma Desmond
"it's a dirty little war"
Updated On: 6/16/10 at 12:30 AM
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#92Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#93Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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"
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#94Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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"
#95Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
Posted: 6/17/10 at 3:05pm
^classic!
- i thought it was Norah and not Norma
"it's a dirty little war"
#96Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
nygrl232
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/08
#97Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
#98Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Operagod01
Chorus Member Joined: 7/5/05
#99Acting Lessons from Miss Catherine Zeta Jones
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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