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Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#50re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:11pm
Jane Leeves
Never saw her.
I saw Adam when he came back to Aida (well, that was my second time seeing him) before it close. I always thought his arms were bigger - lol.
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
#51re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:11pm
yaaaaaaaaay!
*looks longingly at map of U.S.*
ETA - they were. He did some serious working out between Aida and Cabaret.
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#52re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:31pmAdam may be the only "true" broadway guy that I *want* (for lack of a better word).
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
#53re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:31pm*whimpers*
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#54re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:32pmSusan Egan. Her performance was truely remarkable.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#55re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:33pmYayyy I love seeing all the Susan support! She is great!
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#56re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:38pmI adore Susan. She is an amazing and kind-hearted woman.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#57re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:40pmSame here! Speaking of Susan, I just got the pics back from after the Joe's Pub concert - I'll have to scan them and put them on my fan photo thing, if I can figure out how to do it right this time. All my other ones will go on other websites fine, but don't show up in the fan photos for some reason...
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#58re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:42pm
Susan and Natasha seem to be the two best - the first and the last - ironic. (Well, in my eyes at least they're the two best)
Then, I'd say, Alan and Adam.
Has anyone said Alan was bad as the MC? I think it's agreed he was perfect.
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
#59re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:43pmNo way Alan was bad. That role was his baby.
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#60re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:44pm
YEs, Alan owed that role!
He is better than Joel Grey - I saw a video of Joel Grey. But I guess the times were different.
I must say, I love seeing pictures of Liza and Joel together now.
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
#61re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:45pmThe *role* was totally different, too.
#62re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:46pmAlan was/is/and always will be Emcee.
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#63re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:47pm
I stand corrected, someone doesn't like Alan
From IMDB.com:
"Ok, he's gay, fine, who cares?, stop shoving (and supporting) this uninteresting, 'I'll make an appearence on every show,' boring guy down all our throats! I don't care if he's the homosexual poster child, he's boring and doesn't make for interesting TV. Find someone new... "
Even though that doesn't refer to him in Cabaret.
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#64re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 4:51pm*sigh* Alan Cumming. He is so perfect as the Emcee. What a man. He is the one person I am dying to meet!
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#65re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 5:01pm
i agree with almost everyone that alan cumming is the ultimate emcee, but as for sally bowles, i saw cabaret many-a-time and my favorite was DEBBIE GIBSON. she poured herself into the role, and out of all the sallys it seems like it would be hardest for her to get into character- she had the farthest to go. she also was one of the secerely nicest people i have ever met when i talked to her at the stage door. i think NATASHA was the worst, becuase she played it the shallowest and couldn't sing. i know sally isn't supposed to be a good singer, natasha is just horrible. and LIZA was in the movie, so obviously thats not a trait they're too strict about...
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#66re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 5:01pmYes, he is....
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
#67re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 5:01pmHonestly, there are always going to be people who don't like an actor, regardless. Whatever.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#68re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 5:21pmi love, love, love Jill Haworth on the Original Broadway Cast Recording her "Sally" and Natasha's "Sally" are very similar.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#69re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 5:30pm
i never got to see susan egan in this
but i love her voice...
too bad i missed out on her performance.
did anyone here get a chance to either see/here judi dench's "sally"?
grownupgroupie
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/04
#70re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 5:32pm
I have to disagree about Deborah Gibson....I couldn't take:
-the lousy accent
-the medicore acting
She was darling to look at and I REALLY wanted to like her and she sounded amazing--too good really--on the songs, and I really BELIEVED her when she sang--but kind of only then. But that was almost negated by the other stuff--any time she was speaking I had to try really hard to not get taken completely out of the moment.
But Vance Avery was fabulous and I still enoyed the show. I DO agree that Gibson did throw herself into it--I could sense her committment to the role and her effort, it just didn't do it for me.
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#72re: Best Sally Bowles (another wicked topic)
Posted: 12/5/04 at 8:17pm
Um, yeah-I don't like Debbie Gibson either. She was my least favorite.
And as for Vance, I always loved seeing him as the Emcee.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
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