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Bernadette Peters and Kim Cattrall to star in Kennedy Centers Follies
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #100
Posted: 8/27/10 at 4:54pmI noticed that, too. Rialto Chatter says they've been cast but not signed. And would the BWW News Desk lie to us?
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #101
Posted: 8/27/10 at 5:42pmYes, PRS, they would
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #102
Posted: 8/27/10 at 5:49pmWhy, I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #103
Posted: 8/27/10 at 6:13pmI just read a rumor that Ann Margaret has been signed, and that she has already made room for it on her schedule. Just a rumor on Twitter, and no details about her part.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #104
Posted: 8/27/10 at 6:17pm
Wow. Well she would clearly be Carlotta. A tad too old, but it's Ann-Margret!
Updated On: 8/27/10 at 06:17 PM
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #105
Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:34pmI actually think Ann-Margaret would be much more appropriate as Stella than she would be as Carlotta.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #106
Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:40pm
I really hope they cast someone contemporary with Peters for Carlotta. City Center was right in casting someone like Christine Baranski in the role (a pity she was not good in it), as opposed to casting say Polly Bergen (who I'm sure was terrific but do we really need a Carlotta who actually has been through the Depression, etc? ).
I don't mind if Bernadette Peters has to sing the score differently than traditionally performed, I can only imagine the kind of haunting emotion she would bring to a complex piece like "Too Many Mornings," one of the best romantic songs ever written.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #107
Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:51pmAnn-Margret was a sex kitten in her prime. I don't see their persona working for Stella at all.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #108
Posted: 8/27/10 at 8:16pm
"I really hope they cast someone contemporary with Peters for Carlotta."
Look at it this way, Ann-Margret, who will be 70 by the time this production opens, would be 22 years older than Yvonne De Carlo was when she originated the role, at the age of 48. Bernadette, who will be 63, will be 19 years older than Dorothy Collins, who was 44 when Follies opened.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #109
Posted: 8/27/10 at 8:36pm
I still just cannot get over the fact that Bernadette looks as radiant and youthful as she does...and she's 62, going on 63. Amazing.
In any case, I am so excited by these casting choices. I have such high hopes for this production. I'm sure it will be wonderful.
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Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #110
Posted: 8/27/10 at 9:30pm
I think Ann-Margret would be interesting as Hattie. Judging by the text, Carlotta needn't be the only aging sex symbol (Doesn't Ben recall Hattie wearing a low-cut dress when he watched her sing many years before). I also think Broadway Baby would suit her voice more than I'm Still Here.
Cybill Shepherd - now there's an appropriate Carlotta for Peter's Sally and Catrall's Phyllis.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #111
Posted: 8/27/10 at 9:31pm
While I'm a fan of a 50ish Carlotta, I don't think Ann-Margret is a bad choice at all, particularly with Peters as Sally. I just hope she doesn't sustain any injuries before the show, because when I saw her in Whorehouse several years ago she had just hurt her wrist. I'm assuming she was hopped up on painkillers, and while I give her props for being a trouper, her performance was simply... inexplicable.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #112
Posted: 8/27/10 at 11:08pmI think Goldie Hawn might be an interesting Carlotta.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #113
Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:38amtheeatah, Cybill Shepherd was heavily pursued to play Carlotta in the Encores! production several years ago. Her deal fell apart fairly late in the game, which is when Christine Baranski came into the picture.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #114
Posted: 8/28/10 at 4:42pm
Somethingwicked, that's interesting. I imagine they'll have a better chance of getting Shepherd this time, if indeed she's on the list.
With Peters as Sally, I wonder if they've gone after Mandy Patinkin for Buddy?
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #115
Posted: 8/28/10 at 5:20pmDanny Burstein will be Buddy.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #116
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:46pm
Dear God,
Please don't allow Mandy Patinking to play either Ben or Buddy.
Love,
husk_charmer
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Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #117
Posted: 8/28/10 at 8:57pmCan Ann Margaret sing well anymore? Her vocal performance wasn't exactly demanding nor impressive in the WHOREHOUSE a few years back. And the end of "I'm Still Here" ain't easy. Just ask Christine Baranski.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #118
Posted: 8/28/10 at 9:31pm
Well didn't Polly Bergen sing it in a slightly lower key?
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #119
Posted: 8/28/10 at 11:26pmI am going to have to go to DC to see this. I'm very excited for another Follies extravaganza. Bernadette and Danny Burstein seem fantastic to me. I had no idea about Cattrall's credentials, but taking that into account she should be a fantastic Phyllis, which is good because she is my favorite character.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #120
Posted: 8/29/10 at 4:11am
Regardless of how this production in DC turns out, I think that if it eventually transfers to B'way, there would be no justice in the world if Lenora Nemetz did not get to play Carlotta.
She's just perfect for it now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU99SpTYF_k
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Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #121
Posted: 8/29/10 at 11:28am
"Well didn't Polly Bergen sing it in a slightly lower key?"
True, ut she also sang the hell out of it.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #122
Posted: 8/29/10 at 7:14pm
The Hattie humor that's largely gotten lost was that Ethel Shutta had the kind of "wisecracking tough-girl" persona that was popular in the 1930s and early 40s, with with performers like Joan Blondell Barbara Stanwyck and Martha Raye and "Baby" Rose Marie, the wisecracking tough-girl child star who probably most inspired the song. (As an adult, she was the same wisecracking Rose Marie of the Dick Van Dyke Show.)
So when Ben tells Hattie she looked pretty in the low-cut dress, it's both a nice compliment to an older woman from a dashing and still somewhat young man and also an acknowledgment that many of the "tough girls" were in real life attractive women taking on a butch character.
It would be nice to have a Hattie who had that butch quality, rather than Ann-Margret's aging sex-kitten quality. It gave a nice texture to the show.
I remember being obsessed with Ethel Shutta for a while.
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #123
Posted: 8/29/10 at 7:18pmPJ, do you approve of Margret as Carlotta?
Bernadette Peters to star in Kennedy Centers Follies #124
Posted: 8/29/10 at 11:00pmBarbara Cook for Heidi please.
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