Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today

[Jordan Catalano]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today#1

Posted: 12/26/11 at 12:17pm

Was told she's not feeling well today. Theyre not sure if she'll be missing the evening as well as the matinee yet.

Feel better, Audra!

[somethingwicked]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #3

Posted: 12/26/11 at 1:04pm

If Audra is indeed out, Alicia Hall Moran is on for her.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 12/26/11 at 01:04 PM

[uncageg]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #5

Posted: 12/26/11 at 1:10pm

They had a matinee today? I went to their website and it only shows an evening performance. (Unless they took the matinee time down already).

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Jordan Catalano]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #6

Posted: 12/26/11 at 1:13pm

Yep, 2 & 8 today.

[Auggie27]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #7

Posted: 12/26/11 at 2:11pm

Say not so!

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[The Distinctive Baritone]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #8

Posted: 12/26/11 at 3:12pm

Food poisoning from the figgy pudding?

[Bettyboy72]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #9

Posted: 12/26/11 at 4:08pm

Audra and Will wanted to hit up the after Christmas sales.

I bet he is out of Priscilla today too.

I think I saw them at Macy's trying on Uggs.

"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

[Jordan Catalano]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #10

Posted: 12/26/11 at 5:27pm

And she's out tonight as well.

[Mr Roxy]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #11

Posted: 12/26/11 at 6:16pm

Just returned from the matinee. Great TDF seats - 5 th row orchestra. The orchestra was mostly full with a few empty seats. No idea re upstairs.

Audra's understudy, Alicia Hall Moran, could not have been better.David Alan Grier almost stole the show as Sporting Life.The rest of the cast was first rate. Even if she had been there, the best one in the show was Norm Lewis

His Porgy was sympathetic & his powerhouse voice did the score justice. All in all, a first rate production.

Poster Emeritus

[Jordan Catalano]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #12

Posted: 12/26/11 at 6:47pm

The spaceship still lands at the end, right?

[Mr Roxy]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #13

Posted: 12/26/11 at 6:52pm

You spoiled the ending & not me

The set was so ugly it made the On A Clear Day set look good.

Poster Emeritus

[Jordan Catalano]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #14

Posted: 12/26/11 at 7:04pm

Well it takes place in a crack house, right? That's not supposed to be a "pretty" set.

[dramamama611]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #12

Posted: 12/26/11 at 10:58pm

SO glad I got to see her Xmas eve. She looked and sounded wonderful. No disrespect for the understudy but Audra was a big pull for me to see the show.

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[FindingNamo]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #13

Posted: 12/27/11 at 12:37am

I agree with you Roxy. The set is an insult to paying customers. And the principals.

"Even if she had been there, the best one in the show was Norm Lewis"

I agree that Norm is fantastic and criminally overlooked when standing in Audra's shadow, but believe me, she's even better than he is.

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[iluvtheatertrash]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #14

Posted: 12/27/11 at 8:17am

Already? Wow...

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[Emmaloucbway]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #15

Posted: 12/27/11 at 8:28am

Wow... lucky I saw her last week 2 days before Christmas Eve. Audra (and the rest of the cast) were fantastic!

[AC126748]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #16

Posted: 12/27/11 at 9:39am

Bess is no cakewalk even when your well, especially when you're singing it eight times a week, so I'd imagine an illness would only make it more difficult. Audra looked exquisite and performed wonderfully at Friday's matinee. According to her Twitter, she expects to be back in the show tonight.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Updated On: 12/27/11 at 09:39 AM

[SeanMartin]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #17

Posted: 12/27/11 at 9:46am

I'd only seen bits and pieces of the set in some of the promo photographs, but someone sent me one of the whole shot.

My god.

I'm starting to think they need a special Tony for Worst Design Concept. It would be a blood match between this and CLEAR DAY.

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[followspot]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #18

Posted: 12/27/11 at 1:02pm

I hear Alicia Hall Moran serves a mean baked apple.

"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."

Updated On: 12/27/11 at 01:02 PM

[broadwaybaby086]

Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today #19

Posted: 12/27/11 at 1:44pm

"I'll cut you, Tracee Beazer!!!! ...Just kidding. I'd never cut anyone." -Tina Maddigan, 9/30/06, WS stage door
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