#1
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:55pm
Tonight 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 7:56pm
Is this a good thing?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#3
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:57pm
Funny, I've always though of it more like a Bluefin Tuna.
#4
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:58pm
I'd go with monkfish.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#5
Posted: 9/26/11 at 7:59pm
Yeah, I can definitely see that.
#6
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!'
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#7
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:01pm
How do squids say no?
#9
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.
But only the best-tasting musicals get to be StarKist.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#10
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...
The actual quote...
The actual link...
#11
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:06pm
Quotes never interest me. What matters is the squid.
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#12
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:07pm
Jesus, the actual quote makes it sound like a Ray Harryhausen sci-fi drive-in flick.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#13
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.
...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.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#14
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:09pm
Here's the new ad...
Is this thread rascist?
#15
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:10pm
Audra's new "Porgy and Bess" poster ...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#16
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:18pm
This Poor Unfortunate Soul wants some calamari now!!!! Damn you Audra!
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#17
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:21pm
I have an idea! Hire Sherie Rene Scott! She can play the squid, do the book, whatever.
#18
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:33pm
Did she film this before the Sondheim response? Has she learned nothing?
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#19
Posted: 9/26/11 at 8:51pm
"I'm just a squid who cain't say no!"
#20
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.
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.
#21
Posted: 9/27/11 at 9:53pm
One 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.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#22
Posted: 9/27/11 at 10:05pm
How can she call it a squid? It's definitely a porgy.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#23
Posted: 9/27/11 at 10:09pm
Yeah, 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.
#24
Posted: 9/27/11 at 10:18pm
I want to see this so badly!
Gypsy - Betty Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN5XoB5vFs&feature=youtu.be
#25
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?)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
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