Anyone know if Michael Ball is back yet? — Page 2

Fat suit offense? lol!! Maybe it will be banned like minstrel face or something, lol.

---

He probably is glad to go back and see his significant other.

Oh! the Rosie vision is funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess I'm out! My soup always turns out awful!!

Seeing it Thursday night, any word if MB is gonna be back?

---

Wow. It's like blackface, only acceptable for some reason.

I'm surprised Equity allows this, frankly.

---

Did you hear about it? I missed it.

Besides, there are Equity actors who could handle the role who are plenty hefty.

---

The reason that the show required the Count to wear a fat suit is because in Wilke Collins' novel, Count Fosco is rather...obese, to say the least. He is also much more obsessed with his little rodents than the show portrays him as being for those who wonder at the point of such creatures.

I agree that they could find a nice, healthy man with a great set of lungs to play the part and therefore eliminate the need for a fat suit altogether. It's the smart thing to do.

I just wanted to comment on the fact that a lot of posters seemed to wonder why the suit was necessary. It was just something that had been in the book.....one of the areas the show managed NOT to deviate away from, too (go figure).

As with most things in life, the book is much better than the show. I finally saw the show last week when I was in NYC on winter break and was greatly let down. I've been anticipating it for a long time b/c I was reading the book in my 19th Century British novel class the fall that Andrew Lloyd Webber announced that it would soon be a musical in London. My teacher and I have been excited about it ever since (that was the best book we read that semester, too). Ah well. At least I got to see Sweeney Todd while I was in the City. That more than made up for all of my disappointments at the matinee!

Since Ball and Crawford both suffered from this, I guess we can dub this new condition the "Fosco Flu?"

I'm waiting for somebody to call "Pavarotti"(sp?) out of retirement.

He was out Sunday.

"Or it could be that they wanted a "name" to open up a new show on broadway"

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of him as a name!!!

Ooops! Just reread your post Algy and maybe you don't think of him as a name?

Updated On: 1/11/06 at 04:13 PM

I assume they cast him on the strength of his performance in the WestEnd which I was lucky enough to see myself and can quite understand that they did.

The fatsuit it's self probably isn't to blame for his illness,we can all get ill afterall but I doubt it's helped much once the virus was caught.

[Quote]from bare_nakedlady:


HEALTHY, is that what they're calling it nowadays?

Sorry don't mean to offend, I just laughed so hard when I read that.
[/quote]

I'm not offended. I was trying to be...er...politically correct, I guess? Besides, there are plenty of men in this world who do carry more weight who live very healthy lights. Be it big bones, extra padding, whatever.


Eh....I'm just sinking myself in deeper, aren't I? ^^;; I know what I'm trying to say, I just can't..make it come out right. Does that make sense? Sort of, kind of?