Audra's Choice

[EdBroadway5]

Audra's Choice#1

Posted: 3/27/16 at 11:25pm

In her interview, Audra McDonald stated she would like to do more Shakespeare and mentioned the possibility of Lady Macbeth.  I love Audra, but my suggestion would be Cleopatra -- you can't ask for a juicier role than that and I'm sure that Audra, under proper direction, could act the pants off it.  Any comments?

[JBroadway]

Audra's Choice#2

Posted: 3/27/16 at 11:38pm

[Patash]

Audra's Choice#3

Posted: 3/28/16 at 9:11am

Maybe it's just me, but I find Lady Macbeth a far "juicier" role than Cleopatra.

 

 

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Audra's Choice#4

Posted: 3/28/16 at 9:16am

Both Audra McDonald and Viola Davis have publicly said playing Lady Macbeth is their dream roles. And I'd jump at the chance of seeing either of them tackle the role. I'd rather see them play that role than play Cleopatra.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[AC126748]

Audra's Choice#5

Posted: 3/28/16 at 9:23am

People always ask why Macbeth is revived as often as it is, and the answer is that there are always actors who want to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Audra would be a wonderful Lady M -- just as long as it doesn't mean we have to stomach Will Swenson in the title role.

I've seen a dozen productions of Antony and Cleopatra and it's a ferociously difficult play to make work on stage, even with great actors. The best production I've encountered was in Princeton 2 years ago, with Nicole Ari Parker as Cleopatra.

It's not a leading role, but as far as Shakespeare plays go, I'd love to see Audra as Paulina in The Winter's Tale. 

"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