Best one-woman shows...
Best one-woman shows...
#0Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:38pmWhat are the best, most well-respected one-person shows for a woman in her 40's?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#1re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:54pmdefinitely look into William Luce's THE LAST FLAPPER (original title: ZELDA) about Zelda Fitzgerald. There's also one about....Emily Dickinson I think.
Plince! Plince! Nein! T-Rex!!
#2re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 1:02pmOne of the most popular is Jane Wagner's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
#3re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 1:04pmThe Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All....or not, because its terrible.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 1:18pmShirley Valentine is always popular. Also the recent Bad Dates.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#6re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 4:28pmJulie Harris did a couple -- "The Belle of Amherst" (Emily Dickinson) and "Lucifer's Child" (Isak Dineson). Mary-Louise Wilson did a long, critically acclaimed run of "Full Gallop" several seasons ago Off-Broadway about Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. Fiona Shaw won a Drama Desk a few years ago for "THe Wasteland." If you're a great mimic, you could try for Anna Deveare Smith's shows "Fires In the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992"
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#7re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 4:33pmI loved Elaine Stritch at Liberty.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
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#9re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/17/04 at 4:44pmSinging if it's minimal...i.e., definitely not a musical. One or two songs for some dramatic reason, if that's possible, would be okay...
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#10re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/18/04 at 11:25am
I suggest too "Shirley Valentine". A great play
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#11re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/18/04 at 1:17pmBea Arthur on Broadway HANDS DOWN!!! Sometimes I swear she and Carol Channing are men... listen to Carol's "Jazz Baby" record-- listen to how low she sings, sounding like Ol' Man River...
And if she'll say, "My darling, I'm yours!" I'll throw away my striped tie and my best pressed tweed, all I really need is the girl...
Yoga Girl
Swing Joined: 5/20/04
#12re: Best one-woman shows...
Posted: 6/18/04 at 4:20pmI would also check out MONSTER, Dael Orlandersmith's one woman show. She is a fantastic writer and performer. Also pieces of Sarah Jones's SURFACE TRANSIT might work.
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