Audra is gonna play a prostitute

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:04pm

This will be interesting
Rain

[Owen22]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:06pm

She's playing Sadie Thompson????

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:07pm

yea hahah

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:11pm

A new Michael John LaChiusa score!!

Unfamiliar with the source material. Wasn't Audra a prostitute or some such in MAHAGGONNY?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:18pm

What is the difference. She could play Frankenstein and she would get a Tony.

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:25pm

A prostitute, OMG, it's like she's an actress or something!

[jv92]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:48pm

Again?!

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/20/14 at 8:49pm

It's just a reading.

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 1:22pm

She has played a prostitute in Porgy and Bess, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahaggonny, and Billie Holiday was a prostitute in brothel when she was 14 or 15.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 1:48pm

Tickets just went on sale for her concert in Melbourne Australia in October 2015.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 1:51pm

This could be good--REALLY good!

[lovebwy]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 1:56pm

She's going to learn how the hard part is the stairs.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 2:02pm

Im actually surprised she's doing this role. This part seems like something a character actor would do like annaleigh ashford, or kristin chenoweth, or katie finneran

Updated On: 11/21/14 at 02:02 PM

[Patash]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 2:21pm

Those posters are great, but just "average" actresses. I had the amazing opportunity of seeing Edie Adams in Rain at the Kenley Players in Ohio many years ago. You just haven't lived till you've seen something like that!

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 2:23pm

You get this is just a reading, right? She's done a ton of readings, and it doesn't lead her to "playing the role".

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 2:41pm

Yes Sutton Ross, she's PLAYING the role for this reading. Yea Audra is amazing, i was just surprised cause it seems like this role would be played by a sexy, thin white girl but I'm sure Audra will be flawless as always.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:15pm

"Im actually surprised she's doing this role."

A girl's gotta eat.

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:48pm

Why not just revive SADIE THOMPSON, the 1940s musical with the fine Vernon Duke score?

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:56pm

Joan Crawford is magnetic in the 1932 movie version.

Damn how I wish I could sit in on the reading. Always great to hear about another LaChiusa score.

Does anyone know what happened with the reading of one of his shows with Tonya Pinkins a little ways back? They should put them on in rep- the Audra, Tonya, LaChiusa Musical Spectacular!

[Spil.Berg]

Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:59pm

WOW an actress acting !!!! Where do people get these crazy ideas from.

[jemjeb2]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 1:22pm

"gonna" ?

[Okiekat]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 1:23pm

Whizzer I love the thought of Audra and Tonya singing LaChiusa.

[wicked1492]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 3:15pm

The thought of them singing LaChiusa? It happens quite often... Marie Christine, Wild Party, concerts....

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 6:26pm

Much better that then going out to Hollywood to spend years acting on one of the ubiquitous and interchangeable network crime and medical series.