Capathia Jenkins Joins the Broadway Cast of NEWSIES!

[Rob]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 10:18am

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[colorandlight2]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 10:43am

Go Capathia!

[everythingtaboo]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 11:09am

What role is this in the show? I saw it at Papermill, but I'm blanking on what she is.

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

[AC126748]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 11:16am

Medda, the showgirl. Played by Ann-Margaret in the film and Helen Anker at Paper Mill.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[adamgreer]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 11:33am

Well, they certainly went in a different direction with the role for the transfer!

[bjh2114]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 11:54am

I wonder if one of the new songs Alan Menken is writing will be for her character. They might be going with something a little more belty.

Updated On: 1/25/12 at 11:54 AM

[everythingtaboo]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 12:46pm

Ah, yes yes yes...thanks!

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

[WOSQ]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 1:29pm

For my money, Capathia Jenkins is the single best female singer working Broadway today.

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

[CurtainPullDowner]

Capathia Jenkins Joins the Broadway Cast of NEWSIES! #8

Posted: 1/25/12 at 2:03pm

Good move, as talented as Anker is, she disapeared in the role, Jenkins never disappears on stage.
I hope Menken writes her a new song in his quest for a TONY.

Updated On: 1/25/12 at 02:03 PM

[somethingwicked]

Capathia Jenkins Joins the Broadway Cast of NEWSIES! #9

Posted: 1/25/12 at 8:22pm

Jenkins is an absolute star with a ferocious voice. A perfect choice to be playing a character who's supposed to be big in vaudeville.

bjh, I agree- they would be fools not to build a whole new number all around Jenkins. There's nothing she can't sing.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 1/25/12 at 08:22 PM

[adamgreer]

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Posted: 1/25/12 at 10:46pm

Given that Jenkins is a completely different type than Anker, I imagine Menken is doing just that. Probably some kind of big gospel number.

[CurtainPullDowner]

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Posted: 1/26/12 at 1:26am

It should be anything but a Gospel number,
it takes place in a Burley-Que Theater,
more Fats Waller.
And the show needs more diversity than it had in Jersey.

[somethingwicked]

Capathia Jenkins Joins the Broadway Cast of NEWSIES! #12

Posted: 1/26/12 at 1:31am

I was just going to say, CPD- gospel is all wrong. Something more along the lines of the Nell Carter material in AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'.

I'm sure they'll come up with something. As Jenkins so hilariously sang about in MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME, there's always room to let the big black lady stop the show.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 1/26/12 at 01:31 AM

[bwayfan7000]

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Posted: 1/26/12 at 1:44am

I didn't think it was possible for me to get any more excited about this show, and I just did. Jenkins is so incredible, and I can't wait to see what they write for her.

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[CurtainPullDowner]

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Posted: 1/26/12 at 2:07am

I immediately thought of Ruth Brown's
IF I CAN'T SELL IT, I'M GONNA SIT ON IT,
but a PG DISNEY version, of course.

[EricMontreal22]

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Posted: 1/26/12 at 2:18am

As long as nobody suggests bringing back either of Ann Margaret's dire songs from the film...