Best Angela Lansbury role?

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Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:54pm

Im sorta on a AL high right now, I was just wondering what people thought. I know sweeney is obvious...but there are others...


What was the best role Angela Lansbury did?

What is the best cast recording Angela has?

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:56pm

Mrs. L by far! Followed very very very closely by Mame.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:57pm

Sweeney...lol

Others...Mame of course! I liked Anyone Can Whistel (sp?)

Pirates of the Penzance. Sooo many others! I just named the obvious ones!

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:13pm

Mame.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:15pm

Mame

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:54pm

i agree... Mame

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:57pm

In terms of showing off the entire gamut of this wonderful performer's talents -- Mame. I saw the revival in the early 80s and there was literally nothing that woman couldn't do and didn't excel at -- singing, dancing, drama, comedy .... she had the whole package.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:14am

Does Beauty and the Beast the movie count, haha. For some reason I'm partial to her in that. I just love it so much.

But Mrs. Lovett is a close second

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:25am

I love her Mrs. Lovett; though I'm not too familiar with her Mame so I can't really judge.

A bit of a threadjack, I recognized that I knew her character in Nanny McPhee but defintiely didn't realize it was her until the credits. (As for an even further theadjack, Emma Thompson is gorgeous.)

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:27am

I believe Angela Lanbsury to be one of the greatest performers to ever walk the earth.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:49am

sadly, I'm afraid it might be the one that eventually went to Chita ...Claire (is that the correct name?) in THE VISIT. We may never get to see La Lansbury take a crack at it, but it seems ideally suited to her particular talents.

I never got to see MAME, and only SWEENEY on video, so it's really hard to judge. I would have liked to have seen DEAR WORLD. Was she also in PRETTYBELLE?

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:55am

more on the background of THE VISIT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visit

To my knowledge, it would be the first time Kander & Ebb wrote with La Lansbury in mind....it went to Chita when Lansbury's husband was too ill for her to work.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:05am

Obviously I haven't seen it but I'm partial to her in Anyone can whistle. Of course I love her in everything she's done.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:11am

having never seen it staged, it's particularly hard for me to say about WHISTLE. In reading the material and seeing how Sondheim et al talked about it in SONDHEIM & CO, it seems it might have had its moments, but it's hard to believe it would rise to the level of GYPSY or MAME or SWEENEY. Yet, if given the chance, you couldn't have (nor in the future be able to) keep me away from watching La Lansbury do that role.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:33am

Can I vote for Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate?

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#16

re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/10/06 at 9:37am

On recording, its Dear World. She never sounded better. But the 83 revival of Mame was the best thing I have seen her do live -- even Jerry Herman said she was better than in '66. What a pity the birdbrains opened it in July.

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re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/10/06 at 9:42am

What was the best role Angela Lansbury did?
Countess Aurelia (The Madwoman of Chaillot)

What is the best cast recording Angela has?
DEAR WORLD


Yes, TxTwoStep, Angela was in PRETTYBELLE, which closed on the road (in Boston, I believe).

#18

re: Best Angela Lansbury role?

Posted: 8/10/06 at 9:46am

I never got to see her in Mame, so I would vote for the original Manchurian Candidate for her best role. For cast recording, Mame is just about perfect.

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