Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

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Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:30pm

Ashley Brown, who is currenlty playing Mary Poppins in the national tour, will play the title charcter in a concert version of the classic Disney film, "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs." The concert will take place at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on October 20. She still loves being the Disney girl, which is nice. I bet she'll sound amazing singing those songs.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/133879-_Disney_s%20Snow_White%20Concert_Presentation_to_Feature_Brown

Updated On: 10/15/09 at 07:30 PM

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:49pm

I just got tickets to the Mary Poppins tour for the 22nd.

Anybody know who Ashley's understudy is, just in case?

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:51pm

Coincedently, that day will be exactly four years when she made her Broadway debut as Belle. She played a Disney princess for the first time that day and she'll do the same this Tuesday.

Updated On: 10/15/09 at 07:51 PM

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:54pm

How is that ironic?

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 8:01pm

"How is that ironic?"

She played a Disney Princess for the first time on that day four years ago and now she'll be playing another one for the first time four years later.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 8:10pm

That's not irony. Irony would be if she played a Disney princess, married a prince, and became an actual princess. You're mistaking irony and happenstance. Or in this case, type casting.

Here are real uses of situational irony:

http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/situationalironyterm.htm

I'm not trying to be snide, but you're not using irony correctly.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 8:10pm

"Anybody know who Ashley's understudy is, just in case?"

Her understudies are Gail Bennett and Elizabeth Broadhurst. I saw Broadhurst as Mrs. Banks and she was great.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 8:22pm

I saw Bennett go on for Mary on tour, after seeing Ashley Brown earlier that month, and Bennett is as good as, if not better than, Brown.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:06pm

That's not irony. Irony would be if she played a Disney princess, married a prince, and became an actual princess. You're mistaking irony and happenstance.

That wouldn't be irony either. That would be coincidence.

Irony would be her playing a villain but marrying a prince. Or her saying she never believed in fairytales coming true and she winds up playing a princess - or marry a real prince

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:19pm

I also saw Bennett, and having seen Brown on Broadway, I'd say they are both fantastic, although I may like Bennett better...

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:20pm

Updated On: 11/12/09 at 09:20 PM

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:27pm

It's no big deal if I don't see Brown. I haven't heard anything spectacular about her, and understudies are always nice because they play the role much more freshly.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:51pm

In all fairness, no one uses the term irony correctly.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:12pm

I really enjoyed her performance as Mary Poppins on Broadway. In addition to Poppins and Belle, don't forget that she also was in the tour of Disney's On the Record. I love her "A Change in Me" on the CD, she has a gorgeous voice.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:17pm

irony
[ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-nee]
noun, plural -nies.


An outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.




There.

Updated On: 10/15/09 at 10:17 PM

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:18pm

Would it be "ironic" if Ashley married
Hal Prince?

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:19pm

If you want a good example of Irony, take a look at the song Ironic. That song is ironic because situations like it raining on your wedding day or a first time flyer being on a flight that crashes are not situations of irony. They are just misfortunate or just suck. The song is ironic because for a song with that title it never actually lists anything that is irony, rather it just lists a bunch of events that would be a misfortune to have happen to someone.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:23pm

^ What brilliance! It's ironic in that nothing in the song is actually ironic. Very clever of Alanis Morissette. I'm sure she totally intended it that way.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:52pm

Who in Disney Theatricals does she keep sleeping with!?

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:15pm

^ Walt's cryogenically frozen head. Super awkward. She doesn't like to talk about it.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:24pm

Well, her contract with Poppins tour ends in Feb. Maybe she'll take a break from Disney!

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:27pm

"That's not irony. Irony would be if she played a Disney princess, married a prince, and became an actual princess. You're mistaking irony and happenstance. Or in this case, type casting."

That's why I changed it to coincedently.

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:47pm

Well, her contract with Poppins tour ends in Feb. Maybe she'll take a break from Disney!


Or perhaps they'll cast her as Ariel in the new Little Mermaid tour?

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re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:48pm

I sure hope not!

#25

re: Ashley Brown to play Snow White in concert version of the Disney film

Posted: 10/16/09 at 12:06am

Her voice is BEAUTIFUL! I am sure she will look and sound amazing singing those songs! When she sang One Song in One The Record it gave me chills!

Updated On: 10/16/09 at 12:06 AM