Bloody Mary is the

[nomdeplume]

Bloody Mary is the#1

Posted: 12/10/07 at 6:58pm

girl for me!
Who will she be?

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Bloody Mary is the#2

Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:01pm

Bruce Vilanch

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: Bloody Mary is the#2

Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:06pm

it's been cast for a while, but I can't remember with who.

BroadwayEd

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Bloody Mary is the#3

Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:07pm

Bruce Vilanch

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[nomdeplume]

re: Bloody Mary is the#4

Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:11pm

hohoho theatre diva!

I found it!

Hawaii's Loretta Ables Sayre. I don't know her and I don't think I've ever seen her perform.
Bloody Mary

[Josh Freilich]

re: Bloody Mary is the#5

Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:11pm

Whoops, nomdeplume beat me to it.

"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid

Updated On: 12/10/07 at 07:11 PM

[MargoChanning]

re: Bloody Mary is the#6

Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:33pm

She's apparently a big star in her native Hawaii.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Bloody Mary is the#7

Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:38pm

And she don't use Pepsodent.

[nomdeplume]

re: Bloody Mary is the#8

Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:09pm

Margo, she can't be a big theatre performer in Hawaii or I'd know her. Her background in those venues is as entertainer rather than actress. She doesn't have any strong Hawaii theatre credits listed in that article in Playbill.

Let us hope she also possesses acting talent to sink into her character rather than playing up the audience as an entertainer as the latter is boring.

[Smaxie]

re: Bloody Mary is the#9

Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:12pm

I'm glad for some South Pacific excitement around here. Carousel is still my favorite of the R&H shows, but after listening to a few South Pacific recordings over the weekend, those songs just knocked me out all over again. Just one rapturous inventive melody after another. I can't wait to see what Bartlett Sher and his designers do with the material, and particularly if some of the klutzy short scenes in Act Two can be consolidated. In any event, it's the show I'm most looking forward to for the spring.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[nomdeplume]

re: Bloody Mary is the#10

Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:16pm

Yes, looks like we have the hit of the spring after a somewhat lackluster year.

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Bloody Mary is the#11

Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:28pm

Keala Settle



She may not be old enough physically, but she would tear the pLace down!

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[nomdeplume]

re: Bloody Mary is the#12

Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:30pm

Lilias White would have blown it away in that role.

Just the thought. Yowsa.

[Tkt2Ride]

re: Bloody Mary is the#13

Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:42pm

Let's just hope she is good. I enjoy this Movie too and an updated version would be welcome. It's the singing that is most important for this role.

[SueleenGay]

re: Bloody Mary is the#14

Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:48pm

It's the singing that is most important for this role.

Really? I disagree. Although the songs are beautiful, it is not as if she is Mother Abbess in Sound of Music.
Bloody Mary is a GREAT character and I think the acting is just as, if not MORE important than the singing.

PEACE.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Bloody Mary is the#15

Posted: 12/10/07 at 10:35pm

The acting is definitely the most important part of the role, IMO. Who cares about a perfectly sung "Bali Ha'i" if we don't get a fully developed Bloody Mary? Her character is so enigmatic to me. Juanita Hall won a Tony for the role, let's hope Loretta Sayres does a great job with it.
I wish I were a bit more excited but Kelli O'Hara sounds like such a boring choice for Nellie. I will try to see this though.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Tkt2Ride]

re: Bloody Mary is the#16

Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:34pm

If she is well versed in the Hawaiian Culture and has a traditional singing background, she should do fine. I really love the song and it would be sad to not hear it sung well. Unless on Broadway she has some fantastic dance number I haven't seen? That would be rather awkward. It doesn't look like too difficult a part to play unless you don't have this kind of musical background.

I'm not saying it isn't an important part, just that it does involve a song that is important to the show.

[nomdeplume]

re: Bloody Mary is the#17

Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:39pm

From her bio she's mostly a vocalist/entertainer with a fringe of theatre.

She is not a theatre leading lady in Hawaii.
Loretta Ables Sayres

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Bloody Mary is the#18

Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:12pm

I wonder how they found her?

[nomdeplume]

re: Bloody Mary is the#19

Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:36pm

No idea.

Somebody caught her lounge act in Hawaii on vacation?

First of all, none of her names are Hawaiian; she may not have any Hawaiian or Polynesian blood or she may be a mix. Second, her role is Tonkinese, or Vietnamese, and while there is some Polynesian genetic mix left inland up in the hills in Vietnam, most would be Asian from there and it is NOT a Hawaiian or Polynesian culture.

I think you could cast Bloody Mary from a lot of races and mixes and it would be just fine. The question is whether she will have the acting chops and I look forward to seeing whether she does.

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Bloody Mary is the#20

Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:14pm

I wanna see her pic, but i can't find one.

OK I found one but I can't download it, she's pretty, light skinned, she has an official site. Updated On: 12/11/07 at 06:14 PM

[Sleeper2]

re: Bloody Mary is the#21

Posted: 1/6/08 at 7:33pm

Got this one third-hand. Joe Langworth from Telsey was in Hawaii on vacation with his boyfriend, and he held auditions as a complete fluke. He discovered her there and convinced Lincoln Center to hear her. I heard she is amazing.

By the way, Margo Channing is completely wrong. She's not a "big star" in her native Hawaii. Making up stuff is so lame.
Updated On: 1/6/08 at 07:33 PM

[MargoChanning]

re: Bloody Mary is the#22

Posted: 1/6/08 at 8:08pm

Whoa! Why the hell am I being attacked? I said she "APPARENTLY" was a star in her naive Hawaii and that's EXACTLY what Playbill implied:

"Acclaimed Hawaiian actress and chanteuse Loretta Ables Sayre will transport New York audiences to "Bali H'ai" this spring as Bloody Mary in the Lincoln Center Theater production of South Pacific......

Sayre is a prominent Hawaiian entertainer, who has performed at the Halekulani and Kahala Mandarin Oriental hotels, as well as in You Somebody at Hawaii's Diamond Head Theatre. Her credits also include Effie White in the Hawaii mounting of Dreamgirls."


It was Playbill that called her "acclaimed" and "prominent," -- in other words, well known in Hawaii -- not me, so if you have a problem with that, take it up with them.

JEEZ...........




http://www.playbill.com/news/article/111501.html

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 1/6/08 at 08:08 PM

[dented146]

re: Bloody Mary is the#23

Posted: 1/6/08 at 9:43pm

Sleeper 2,

If you are going to disagree with Margo on factual material, it's best if you have notarized documentation which has never been previously published.

If you are going to disagree with her opinion that's fine but it helps if you've read every play ever written and the source material.

But if you are just going to contradict her, well all I can say is good luck.

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Bloody Mary is the#24

Posted: 1/6/08 at 9:44pm

dented146,

If you are going to contradict Margo's statement on his gender, it's best if you have notarized documentation he's never seen.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum