Bebe Neuwirth as Aurora.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:48am

Did Bebe ever play Aurora in Kiss Of The Spiderwoman?

[stage_door76]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:58am

I don't know the answer - but I personally think she would be divine.

[Flaunt It]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:59am

Yes. In london.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:06am

I can sooooo see this

Thanks, Flaunt it.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:17am

She killed the show dead in London. She had none of the charisma that Chita brought to the show from day one and the show closed not long into her contract. The production became 'The Bebe Newirth Show'! Note she was never asked to play it in NY.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:03am

Chita was the best Aurora. The voice, the dancing, the characterization was all perfect.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:48am

I would die to hear her sing the title song.

[JRybka]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:57am

I liked Vanessa when she did it on Broadway. I love Chita but I always thought that Aurura was a bit younger then Chita was when she was in the show.

...and now they have Natacia Diaz here in DC playing her... and she looks like she is 18.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:31am

I would love to have seen Neuwirth as Aurora, or at least hear her in the role. I can see how she may not have been great in the role though.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:25pm

Thanks, I know that Caroline O'Connor was asked to play the role in London after Chita left, i just had no idea that Bebe was the replacement.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:31pm

It was strange because they looked for a name replacement and went with Bebe but nobody knew then or even now in london!

[The Insider]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:36pm

Bebe left Cheers in the middle of its last season to do so.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:37pm

Is there a recording somewhere?

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:42pm

Updated On: 3/12/08 at 05:42 PM

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 7:40pm

All recorded except Bebe!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:48pm

I saw her in it in London and she put me to sleep.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:52pm

The first time I read the title, I thought you meant Princess Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty." I was soon given a vision of Bebe Neuwirth in a pink tutu doing the rose entrance.

I got very confused.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:25am

I remember reading that they were going after Shirley Bassey to replace Chita in "Spiderwoman" in London.

Was she not interested or couldn't she handle the schedule and/or the dancing, I wonder.

[evic]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 7:41am

I heard that Hal Prince despised her and vowed never to work with her again........forgot the story but something about her throwing her shoes because she didn't like them-sounds like Bebe-weird behavior

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:35pm

I saw it from the first row at The Shaftsbury in London and am a big Neuwirth fan. It was a matinee. The energy was very strange. It was all so mechanical, without any passion. Very rote. In the blown-up photos outside the theatre, she had the bob wig emmulating the original hair design, but on stage, what appeared to be her natural hair flowed freely at a much longer and less styled length. I was disappointed.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:41pm

It was the 8 or 6 performances a week that put dear old Shirley off though she was very serious about doing it. The name that followed her was Elaine Paige.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:43pm

It was all so mechanical, without any passion. Very rote.

Bebe Neuwirth? You MUST be joking. Bebe is always so vulnerable, touching and warm in everything she does.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 1:54pm

But could Shirley Bassey dance it? It really needs a dancer. What I didn't like about Vanessa Williams was her dancing looked forced.

[ruthiefan_felix]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 3:18pm

are there NO pictures of Bebe in the role? I still cannot imagine her as Aurora... or Vanessa William pixs wud be great as well!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 4:36pm