"Baby" in LA
"Baby" in LA
#1"Baby" in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 11:07amJust saw the complete casting for the Reprise Monday night series performance of BABY. Faith Prince, Kerry Butler and Alice Ripley as the three ladies!!! Wow. I've got my ticket. Talk about exciting!
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
singingbackup
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/06
#2re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 2:14pmI am so there too! I enjoy their Monday Night shows often more than their full-on productions.
#3re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:03pmI love the music in that show... I just wish I could see it! What a great cast of women!
"First up was Max who sang "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" [...] I haven't seen that big of a reaction to a stair descent since Audra left the attic in Ragtime." --Seth Rudetsky
#4re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:06pmAm I the only one not entirely sold on Kerry Butler? I'm just so used to Liz Callaway and their voices are very different. I don't know- I can't really imagine Butler doing justice to "Two People in Love" or "The Story Goes On".
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#5re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:09pmI will agree with you on that. I'm more excited for Alice Ripley and Faith Prince.
"First up was Max who sang "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" [...] I haven't seen that big of a reaction to a stair descent since Audra left the attic in Ragtime." --Seth Rudetsky
#6re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:11pmYes, they will be wonderful. Alice Ripley I assume is the Catherine Cox role? Oh, she's just going to kill in it. "I Want it All" is going to be wonderful.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#7re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:13pmI admit to FULL bias - but Kerry will do an amazing job with this role.
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#8re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:14pm
I do respect your opinion, Craig, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see. Or listen from others, since I won't be there.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Updated On: 1/24/07 at 06:14 PM
#9re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:24pmI wouldn't say I'm Kerry Butler's biggest fan, but I think she's pretty much perfect for the role. The only person I've seen do it live is Susan Egan, who was fantastic. She and Butler have very similar, Disney-style voices. And, don't shoot me, but I prefer either of them to Liz Callaway.
#10re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 6:59pmBlasphemy!!!!
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
bbabe24
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/04
#11re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 7:11pmGlad to see this show is back. I saw it YEARS ago at the Marriot Lincolnshire Theater (community theater) near Chicago. Love the song, "I Want It All" , or at least I think that's the title.
"Crabby old b*tches are the bedrock of this nation."
--Mrs. T, Avenue Q
singingbackup
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/06
#12re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/24/07 at 7:21pmIm not a huge Butler fan but the 3 should be great together!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/25/07 at 4:19amI'd kill to hear them sing it--too bad all are too old for a real production
#14re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/25/07 at 7:47amToo old??? Feels to me like they're all just about right.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
AuditioningWaitress
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/05
#15re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/25/07 at 9:44amI agree mallardo. Alice Ripley too old for the part of Pam? Isn't LaChanze older than Alice?
singingbackup
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/06
#18re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/25/07 at 4:28pm
Blow her away? Perhaps..to each their own
Kerry held her own quite well singing a power number opposite Cheryl Freeman in Miracle Brothers. And on the daytime emmy's with Kathy Brier and Renee Goldsberry.
All three of the ladies will be excellent and will no doubt garner thunderous applause for their numbers.
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#19re: 'Baby' in LA
Posted: 1/25/07 at 4:35pmI guess I just don't "get" Kerry Butler and her nasal parade.
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#20re: Lea's Version "Baby"
Posted: 1/25/07 at 8:50pm
Lea Salonga's "Story Goes On" is amazing. She sang it in her Carnegie concert. The sampler album is out in Amazon from her Baby production in Asia.
Baby - Lea Salonga and David Shannon
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#21re: Lea's Version 'Baby'
Posted: 1/26/07 at 2:05ammy teacher john sloman is in it. im so excited!
"The Light in the Piazza....My Love"
Videos