Anyone else want to see Audra McDonald as Eliza?
Anyone else want to see Audra McDonald as Eliza?
Moriah3
Stand-by Joined: 6/24/17
#1Anyone else want to see Audra McDonald as Eliza?
Posted: 8/23/17 at 6:49pm
Am I the only person who wants to see her play Eliza in the revival?
Updated On: 8/23/17 at 06:49 PM
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#2Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 6:54pm
Yes, you are 
#3Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 7:14pm
Change the title of the thread
Moriah3
Stand-by Joined: 6/24/17
#5Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 7:32pm
#6Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 8:31pm
Moriah3 said: "Am I the only person who wants to see her play Eliza in the revival?
I'd love to see Queen Audra in anything!
#7Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 8:38pm
I'm sorry but absolutely not. She reads too old to play a twenty-something year old women (at least Lauren Ambrose looks much younger than 39) and I'm not sure how well she'd fare playing pre-transformation Eliza.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#8Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 8:47pm
She can play the street where you live.
Cat Guy
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
#9Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 8:49pm
Miles2Go2 said: "Moriah3 said: "Am I the only person who wants to see her play Eliza in the revival?
I'd love to see Queen Audra in anything!
"
Agree! Next May I am traveling north on the Pacific Surfliner Train to see her in concert with the Los Angeles Opera. Four days later, I will see her in concert again here at home with the San Diego Symphony.
I am slightly obsessed with Miss Audra McDonald.
#10Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 9:02pm
Cat Guy said: "Miles2Go2 said: "Moriah3 said: "Am I the only person who wants to see her play Eliza in the revival?
I'd love to see Queen Audra in anything!
"
Agree! Next May I am traveling north on the Pacific Surfliner Train to see her in concert with the Los Angeles Opera. Four days later, I will see her in concert again here at home with the San Diego Symphony.
I am slightly obsessed with Miss Audra McDonald.
I was lucky enough to see her in Porgy & Bess. I missed seeing her in Shuffle Along and in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (although I recommended it to friends vacationing in London this summer and they loved it).
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#12Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 10:00pm
she would have been perfect for it in the mid-90's!
Cat Guy
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
#13Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 10:10pm
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#14Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/23/17 at 10:45pm
I absolutely adore Audra McDonald, but she is too old for Eliza.
JaglinSays
Stand-by Joined: 5/22/14
JaglinSays
Stand-by Joined: 5/22/14
#17Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/24/17 at 3:25am
OK--I'll respond---NO.
She would sing it sublimely-every song, especially 'On the street where you live'--but--there is a certain 'type' required to play Eliza and it isn't Ms McDonald.
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/24/17 at 4:00am
Eliza doesn't sing ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE. It's Freddy Eynsford Hill who sings the song.
yeah
Featured Actor Joined: 10/2/08
#19Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/24/17 at 7:24am
I'd like to see Audra McDonald in ANYTHING. Too old? Don't care. :P
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#21Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/24/17 at 1:48pm
jo wrote: Eliza doesn't sing ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE. It's Freddy Eynsford Hill who sings the song.
You kinda missed the point of that post.
#22Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/24/17 at 2:24pm
jo said: "Eliza doesn't sing ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE. It's Freddy Eynsford Hill who sings the song.
I DO know that, it's just that I would love to hear Ms McDonald sing that song. Never heard a woman sing it and she would do it beautifully.
PS--Thanks dramamama--you get me...x
LOVE Linda-will check it out---thanks
#23Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/24/17 at 2:25pm
Linda Eder sings "On The Street" on her "Broadway My Way" cd. It's a beautiful arrangement and she sounds incredible.
#24Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/25/17 at 11:17am
I'd love her to do a concert staging of this...not sure it would translate well to a full-on stage show, but she'd sing the hell outta that score!
#25Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady
Posted: 8/25/17 at 12:22pm
Added to the fact that she's far too old for the role, her voice also has an awfully mature, dark, heavy tone for that score - it would be kinda like hearing Deborah Voigt as Maria in West Side Story.
Better roles, I think, would be Mrs. Maurrant in Street Scene, Vanessa in Vanessa, Regina in Regina, dramatic soprano stuff like that. And definitely adult roles, not ingenues. Even better - get someone to write her a new role, like a musical of Beloved, with McDonald as Sethe. Or in a lighter vein, perhaps Amanda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.
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