Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:31pm
Just revisited the HBO film version of Kushner's AiA. Was just wondering the significance behind Kathleen Chalfant (and in the film Meryl Streep)'s playing the Rabbi in Millennium Approaches.
Is it out of necessity, or, is it that there's a connection between the Orthodox Rabbi and the ultra-conservative Mormon Hannah Pitt?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:32pmIt's because girls look good in beards with curly side burns.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:37pmThat was my first guess.
#3re: Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:23pmAll of the doubling and tripling of roles in AiA is written and completely deliberate.
#4re: Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:51pmEDITED: Dumb post, apologies to Emcee for getting confused.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 2/12/08 at 04:51 PM
#5re: Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:02pm
Nevermind. 
#6re: Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:06pmEmcee, I had just woken up from a nap and misread your comment. You're completely right, I shall edit my response. Apologies.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#7re: Angels in America - Why is the Rabbi Played by a Woman?
Posted: 2/12/08 at 5:07pm
It's ok. I was just like "... what?" But no worries!
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