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Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
#25Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/17/11 at 10:00pm
I hope this goes into production!
Is there really an issue with age? I mean, Bernadette looks incredible!
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#26Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/17/11 at 10:24pmShe looks good for her age. That doesn't mean she looks 20.
#27Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/17/11 at 10:27pmI'm not familiar with the show but if it's true (as Gavenston2 claimed) that the first act is more comic and the second act is more serious, does age really matter? Maybe it will add to the humour, lol..
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#28Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/17/11 at 10:41pm
LOL! Good point, qolbinau!
I'm not familiar with the show, either. But I'm quite sure that Bernadette and Martin can pull it off. What a treat to see them back on Broadway together!
"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."
#29Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/17/11 at 10:57pmWe're not talking slapstick comedy in Act 1. We're talking "romantic comedy". Act 2 is more dramatic. The show doesn't contain the kind of humor that a blatant age difference would make hyper funny.
#30Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/17/11 at 11:03pmThose of you who aren't familiar with the show really should listen to it some time. It's a very charming show about what fifty years of marriage is like.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
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#31Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/17/11 at 11:41pmSounds like a good show. I'll definitely check it out.
"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."
#32Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 12:27amI saw the production with Kate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale up in Westport and the two of them were perfection...it's a really sweet little show with a lovely score. I think this is a show that works best with two actors in their 30s (or who read around there), because it's not crazily unbelievable when they're very young in the beginning and they can use age make-up at the end. The production in Connecticut was very effective and in the end really moving. I'd love to see the show again and see it done on Broadway but I'd really prefer them to cast it younger.
#33Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 12:38am
It seems clear they need two big names for this revival to work. What young Broadway stars have names big enough? They would have to go to Hollywood, it seems. Looking on wikipedia Mary Martin was 53 when she performed the role though so still not convinced about the age issue..
Are Bernadette Peters and Martin Short big enough names to sell this show?
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#34Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 12:43am
I think Shorty and Bernie are certainly big enough names for the show.
Bernadette's voice has been off-and-on throughout the whole run of Follies.
#35Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 2:07am
They're definitely big enough names. Especially Marty, I'd say. I've educated myself on the show since my last post and I've fallen in love with the idea of a Marty and Bernadette revival. I really hope it happens.
For the people who say that Martin would have to tone down his "schtick"...have you not seen his work on Law & Order: SVU, Weeds or Damages (which he was nominated for an Emmy) The man is an actor in every sense of the word. He's just a character actor. Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and Little Me both showed his comedy/vaudeville style humor. The man can clearly tone it down when he wants to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJep4v3OjU
Short is 61, but when he was 40, he played a 10 year old. I think we're okay. 
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#36Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 2:24amWhy on earth would ANYONE bring up political correctness with a show that clearly takes place decades upon decades ago when the attitudes were the attitudes. If a modern audience cannot figure that out, or especially people on these boards, perhaps they should only go to plays and musicals that take place now. Unbelievable.
#37Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 3:47am
(From listening to the cast recording) Bernadette's "Goodnight" would be ADORABLE. I think she will be completely fine singing the score, it's much more simple than FOLLIES and it's not like Mary Martin was as strong a vocalist as Bernadette. This is a good role for her. It's funny (her humour will suit "Nobody's Perfect") and cute, there are ballads she can show her vulnerability etc. I don't know if there would be many surprises to her performance though.
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#38Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 7:06amAfter reading up on the plot and listening to the score, I'm even more excited for this to happen. I agree with you, qolbinau, about the score being simple, but Bernadette will definitely bring a lot of depth to it vocally. These two have such great chemistry together, so this show seems perfect for them.
"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."
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#39Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 10:46amI spotted Martin Short at last night's performance of Follies!
#40Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 10:54am
I'm not sure its really relevant or even fair to suggest saying that Mary Martin was not as strong a vocalist as Bernadette Peters. Martin did just fine singing a wide assortment of vocally demanding roles (including ANNIE GET YOUR GUN) in a time pre-dating microphones. If anything, I'm not quite as sure Peters could have pulled off that vocal feat.
#41Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 10:56amMartin Short is definitely big box office, as evidenced by the enormous profits generated by his mega-hits The Goodbye Girl, Little Me, and Fame Becomes Me.
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#42Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 11:19am
I agree with Michael Bennett that there's a limited audience for this show. I saw it back several years ago when Karen Ziemba did it and it just wasn't that great. It's a remnant of the 1950s fluff musicals (like Bells Are Ringing) that give a good 2 hours of entertainment, but you don't take it with you when you leave the theater.
And Bernadette and Martin are too old to be playing the roles. I'm thinking Sutton Foster would be more suited for the woman's role.
And Bernadette's "Flaming Agnes" just won't sizzle. She's too introspective for the song.
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#43Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 11:35am
I definitely don't agree about Bernadette not being as capable a singer as Mary Martin. Bernadette can certainly project her voice and hold her own during any performance. I mean, she did sing an entire first act in SONG AND DANCE.
It's not as if she's a new entertainer who has always had the pleasure of wearing a body microphone.
"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."
#44Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 11:48am
I definitely don't agree about Bernadette not being as capable a singer as Mary Martin. Bernadette can certainly project her voice and hold her own during any performance. I mean, she did sing an entire first act in SONG AND DANCE.
That was over twenty-five years ago, though. Her voice isn't really what it was even ten years ago.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#45Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 11:55am
I don't know that this is the kind of show that people would go to see a "surprising" performance by either lead, it's just a cute little show that would work out beautifully at Encores! or if they are looking for a Broadway run, I agree that Roundabout or MTC would be the way to go.
As someone else said, Short was fantastic playing a dramatic role on DAMAGES, he was absolutely perfection. I imagine he'd bring his A-game along with Peters.
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#46Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 12:07pmthis just made my day. thank you Jesus.
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#47Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 12:11pm
I think the show is too small for Encores! It would get eaten in that theatre.
Was it originally orchestrated for a full orchestra? The production I saw in Westport only had two pianos (I believe).
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
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#48Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 12:22pmI would have loved to see Bernie as Sally 10 yrs ago when her voice was in real tip-top shape. Granted, then she may have looked too young for the role (even though she was in her 50s then) but I think the transitions would have been much cleaner then. She's also developing the "Liza Lisp" as of the past couple yrs (which Judy also got as she got older).
#49Bernadette Peters & Martin Short To Team Up For I DO, I DO?
Posted: 11/18/11 at 1:12pm
I'll concede that Bernadette's voice has gone through some wear and tear over the years, but she still has a great set of pipes. I certainly wouldn't underestimate her singing ability.
I didn't see her and Marty in THE GOODBYE GIRL, so I'm hoping they go on with I DO! I DO! (and it's a hit!).
"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."
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