#1
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:01am
I was dying to see this show again, and I truly wanted to love Bernardette and Elaine, but I was missing Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury the whole time.
I wish I'd get the Peters/Stritch "hype" like other BWWers, but I thought some of the other members of the cast actually stole the show.
Desiree is suppossed to be middle-aged.
Bernardette is 62yo, she might look a little younger,but Catherine Zeta Jones is only 40yo, so the show worked a lot better for me woth CZJ. Not only because of her age, but because of her sexiness and glamour.
Bernardette's weak baby speaking/singing voice was just not effective for me. Anyways, this role, as we all know, wasn't written for a singer, so her singing wasn't exactly my problem.
Her "Send in the Clowns" was her best moment in the show.
But her way of delivering lines was lackluster to me, especially after seeing CZJ and remembering her sultry, rich voice reciting those lines.
I can't even start with Elaine Stritch, but I feel that judging her performance is just pointless. I couldn't do that...I don't think she is aware of the fact she is on a Broadway stage.
With that said, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka and Aaron Lazar were good.
Alexander Hanson is so comfortable on stage! A great actor and singer.
Erin Davie is just great in this, a great character she got to play. Wonderful!
Ramona Mallory, I enjoyed her character a lot, this time even more. She was the most interesting and probably the best singer out of the leading characters.
And the best for last, the real star of the show with the most amazing number...Leigh Ann Larkin stole every scene she was in. The true star of the evening in my opinion, she brought the house down with "The Miller's Son".
The rest of the ensemble also stood out, Kevin David Thomas has a wonderful voice and is very handsome. The same goes for the rest of the ensemble, some of the female voices were truly gorgeous...Sara Jean Ford, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Karen Murphy and Erin Stewart. The men were also outstanding: Stephen Buntrock, Bradley Dean and Kevin Vortmann.
Keaton Whittaker has a great voice and her acting was very good.
So all these people wondering why the show didn't open with Peters...well, the answer is this...Catherine was much better!
I wish I'd get the Peters/Stritch "hype" like other BWWers, but I thought some of the other members of the cast actually stole the show.
Desiree is suppossed to be middle-aged.
Bernardette is 62yo, she might look a little younger,but Catherine Zeta Jones is only 40yo, so the show worked a lot better for me woth CZJ. Not only because of her age, but because of her sexiness and glamour.
Bernardette's weak baby speaking/singing voice was just not effective for me. Anyways, this role, as we all know, wasn't written for a singer, so her singing wasn't exactly my problem.
Her "Send in the Clowns" was her best moment in the show.
But her way of delivering lines was lackluster to me, especially after seeing CZJ and remembering her sultry, rich voice reciting those lines.
I can't even start with Elaine Stritch, but I feel that judging her performance is just pointless. I couldn't do that...I don't think she is aware of the fact she is on a Broadway stage.
With that said, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka and Aaron Lazar were good.
Alexander Hanson is so comfortable on stage! A great actor and singer.
Erin Davie is just great in this, a great character she got to play. Wonderful!
Ramona Mallory, I enjoyed her character a lot, this time even more. She was the most interesting and probably the best singer out of the leading characters.
And the best for last, the real star of the show with the most amazing number...Leigh Ann Larkin stole every scene she was in. The true star of the evening in my opinion, she brought the house down with "The Miller's Son".
The rest of the ensemble also stood out, Kevin David Thomas has a wonderful voice and is very handsome. The same goes for the rest of the ensemble, some of the female voices were truly gorgeous...Sara Jean Ford, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Karen Murphy and Erin Stewart. The men were also outstanding: Stephen Buntrock, Bradley Dean and Kevin Vortmann.
Keaton Whittaker has a great voice and her acting was very good.
So all these people wondering why the show didn't open with Peters...well, the answer is this...Catherine was much better!
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
