Anyone else want to see Audra McDonald as Eliza?
Anyone else want to see Audra McDonald as Eliza?
Anyone else want to see Audra McDonald as Eliza?#1
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
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Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#2
Posted: 8/23/17 at 6:54pm
Yes, you are 
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#3
Posted: 8/23/17 at 7:14pm
Change the title of the thread
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#5
Posted: 8/23/17 at 7:32pm
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#6
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!
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#7
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#8
Posted: 8/23/17 at 8:47pm
She can play the street where you live.
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#9
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.
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#10
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).
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Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#12
Posted: 8/23/17 at 10:00pm
she would have been perfect for it in the mid-90's!
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Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#13
Posted: 8/23/17 at 10:10pm
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Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#14
Posted: 8/23/17 at 10:45pm
I absolutely adore Audra McDonald, but she is too old for Eliza.
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Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#17
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#18
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.
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#19
Posted: 8/24/17 at 7:24am
I'd like to see Audra McDonald in ANYTHING. Too old? Don't care. :P
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#21
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.
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#22
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
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#23
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.
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#24
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!
Audra McDonald in My Fair Lady#25
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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