Carly Rae Jepsen and Fran Drescher Extended in Cinderella — Page 4

Though CRJ has a completely different singing style than Laura Osnes (pop v. classic Broadway lyric soprano), CRJ is a more than capable actress, as you can see in the clip, and she has what I'd call an "enchanting earnestness" about her on stage that makes you really root for her. She was a more than adequate replacement for the wonderful Laura Osnes. Many people gave her a bad (and unfair, in my opinion) rap.

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I saw Carly today, and I REALLY liked her. What a great little actress. There were some voice things that weren't all the way there, but her voice is very pretty. I really believed and felt for her. Fran was hard to understand sometimes, and it sounds like she's not using her voice properly even for her. I thought that Joe Carroll was very weak in voice, almost alarmingly so. His singing was very weak and amateur.

There's a lot of good in this show, it needs to be 90 minutes. There's some extra that they could afford to trim that would really make this piece go.