"The recording of West Side Story with Jose Contreras singing Tony with a Spanish accent."
Not to be a pedant but the man's name is Jose Carreras.
Featured Actor Joined: 7/7/09
Whoopi Goldberg in "FORUM" - there was no "Whoopie" in her performance, and it was made even more apparent when her curtain speech (for the Equity Fights AIDS drive) was full of nuance, humor, and drollery...everything that was NOT in her "Pseudolus".
Years ago, in LA, the wonderful Beatrice Straight as Blanche in a vanity production of "Streetcar". She was too old, but even so, I'd never realized that the character had actually come from somewhere in the Great State of North Patrician.
Finally, pretty much everybody in the Frank Langella revival of "Private Lives" (c.1997). Wow and BoyHowdy. Sir Coward probably wouldn't have minded the scenery-chewing going on, but between Mr. L's vanity and the incoherent direction... Eeek.
Leading Actor Joined: 7/20/09
Last summer, I saw Drew Lachey as Corny Collins in Hairspray. I don't know who decided he'd be the right choice, but he wasn't... not in the slightest.
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