There would have been no broadcast if Benanti was Maria. Liza's Headband, if you're gonna engage, at the very least reply to what I actually said. I said that I imagine how great Benanti would be singing those songs now that she's grown into such a fully realized actress (and that voice). I never wrote that she should have played the role for this broadcast. It's called reading comprehension, sweetie.
Also, I don't understand why we shouldn't hold Underwood, who you know was hired for a F*CKing acting job, to the standards by which we would judge any other actor. That is just such a ridiculous statement. And I'm sorry, but a couple not-as-atrocious line readings does not a good performance make.
Phyllis, I know exactly the scene you're talking about! To me, the worst, was her introduction to the Captain with the whole business with the whistle. If I hadn't watched that scene in the movie, I'd think it's one of the worst written scenes in a classic musical since it was acted so terribly.
"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"
