Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid...
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid...
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid...#1
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:55pmTonight on PBS. Can't find a link, but just watched it.
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #2
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:56pmIs this a good thing?
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #2
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:57pmFunny, I've always though of it more like a Bluefin Tuna.
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #3
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:58pmI'd go with monkfish.
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #4
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:59pmYeah, I can definitely see that.
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #5
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:00pm
To paraphrase, she said it was 'like a giant squid, alway writhing around and avoiding categorization. Some people want to call it an opera, some want to call it a musical, but it says no!'
Updated On: 9/26/11 at 08:00 PM
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #6
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:01pmHow do squids say no?
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #8
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:02pm
To paraphrase, she said it was 'like a giant squid, alway writhing around and avoiding categorization. Some people want to call it a musical, some want to call it a musical, but it says no!'
But only the best-tasting musicals get to be StarKist.
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #9
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:04pm
"People have been trying to put it in a box for all these years, I don't mean put it away, but shove it into you know: It's an opera, it's a musical, it's — I think, it just continues to defy. It's this sort of big large squid that just plopping out (gesturing madly) that's like NO! I'm all of these things!"
The actual quote...
The actual link...
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #10
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:06pm
Quotes never interest me. What matters is the squid.
Updated On: 9/26/11 at 08:06 PM
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #11
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:07pm
Jesus, the actual quote makes it sound like a Ray Harryhausen sci-fi drive-in flick.
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #12
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:08pm
Porgy and Bess is like a giant squid... people only knew it existed because of the rotten carcasses that washed up on shore once and a while.
...it was mythical until captured on film by the Japanese in 2004.
...it is a favorite prey of sperm whales and Stephen Sondheim.
...it has eyes the size of dinner plates.
...it appeared in a Jules Verne novel.
...it was rumored to exist by 18th century British sailors.
...it is preserved in ice in some museum.
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #13
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:09pm
Here's the new ad...
Is this thread rascist?
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #14
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:10pm
Audra's new "Porgy and Bess" poster ...
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #15
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:18pmThis Poor Unfortunate Soul wants some calamari now!!!! Damn you Audra!
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #16
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:21pmI have an idea! Hire Sherie Rene Scott! She can play the squid, do the book, whatever.
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #17
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:33pmDid she film this before the Sondheim response? Has she learned nothing?
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #18
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:51pm"I'm just a squid who cain't say no!"
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #19
Posted: 9/26/11 at 10:29pm
I've been told tenors never use their brains, but after reading her comment, it obvious Ms McDonald doesn't either.
Someone should call her on her crap and point out that George Gershwin called Porgy and Bess an OPERA. In Audraworld, poor old George didn't know what he had written. After all these years, it took four women at ART to fix it.
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #20
Posted: 9/27/11 at 9:53pmOne begins to wonder if the key to her terrific voice entails having resonance where her brains ought to be. Gershwin called his work a "folk opera". Done, and done.
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #21
Posted: 9/27/11 at 10:05pmHow can she call it a squid? It's definitely a porgy.
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Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #22
Posted: 9/27/11 at 10:09pmYeah, Dolly. Some years back when scholars were examining Gershwin's notes while writing the famous squid, I mean opera, they discovered the working title was actually PORGIE AND BASS.
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #23
Posted: 9/27/11 at 10:18pmI want to see this so badly!
Audra McDonald Says Porgy and Bess is like a squid... #24
Posted: 9/27/11 at 10:31pm
Truth to tell, some years back the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston did a concert of selections from the opera called PORGY AND BASS. The poster was delightful. The (actual) porgy was in an empty sardine can pulled by a snail (no goat here, either), and the (actual) bass wore a calico bandana. The audience at the bottom of the poster consisted of a row of catfish. (Get it?)
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