Celia is Eponine- Page 2

[bwayondabrain]

re: Celia is Eponine#25

Posted: 8/25/06 at 9:37pm

that's awesome!
and somethingwicked, i LOVE your avatar!
:)

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Celia is Eponine#26

Posted: 8/25/06 at 9:42pm

Thrilling!

(Yet I would still like to see it in print by a reliable news source before getting too excited.)

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

Updated On: 8/25/06 at 09:42 PM

[AC126748]

re: Celia is Eponine#27

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:04pm

Celia is a great choice for the role, although she wouldn't be my first choice. I'm excited, but as others have said, I'll wait until it's confirmed before I go through the roof. I have tickets for the first preview and I cannot wait.

"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

[i*heart*fame]

re: Celia is Eponine#28

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:08pm

This makes me SO happy! I ADORE her!

"Don't thank your parents, if you were raised in a nurturing environment you wouldnt be in show business"--Conan O'Brien at the 2006 Emmy Awards

[WickedGeek28]

re: Celia is Eponine#29

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:12pm

"BJH: but she just doesn't seem right for the part"

After seeing her performance in Bernarda Alba, I do not doubt her acting abilities.

When do they start rehearsals?

Sorry about the confusion.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

Updated On: 8/25/06 at 10:12 PM

[Luckydave14]

re: Celia is Eponine#30

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:21pm

Celia wasn't in Bernarda Alba to my knowledge. She was and still is in Spelling Bee during Bernarda's run.

[wickedrentq]

re: Celia is Eponine#31

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:38pm

Dave, he's talking about Daphne...though it took me a minute to realize.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[bjh2114]

re: Celia is Eponine#32

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:39pm

I think WickedGeek's comment was in response to mine about Daphne Rubin-Vega. I am not talking about her acting abilities though, I am thinking singing voice. She is very raspy and Fantine doesn't really come across to me like that. But, I am not judging, just making an observation.

[kenmarksnj]

re: Celia is Eponine#33

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:42pm

i definitely predicted this a couple months ago in a thread i started about celia possibly playing eponine... and barely anyone responded.

[ashley0139]

re: Celia is Eponine#34

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:43pm

Yay! I am beyond excited. So so cool!

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[BwayBaby18]

re: Celia is Eponine#35

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:45pm

Is she leaving Spelling Bee or just taking a leave of absence.

[RentBoy86]

re: Celia is Eponine#36

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:49pm

That's awesome. Just another reason to see Les Mis - besides Norm Lewis' amazingness.

[Luckydave14]

re: Celia is Eponine#37

Posted: 8/25/06 at 11:00pm

"Dave, he's talking about Daphne...though it took me a minute to realize."

That makes more sense now. Haha.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Celia is Eponine#38

Posted: 8/25/06 at 11:04pm

kenmarksnj, consider your prediction appreciated, notorized and officially noticed!

Way to go, sport!

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[nyc1870]

re: Celia is Eponine#39

Posted: 8/25/06 at 11:18pm

they start rehersals september 11th

[theminutepast]

re: Celia is Eponine#40

Posted: 8/25/06 at 11:44pm

I had the opportunity to meet her this spring when she gave a talk at my college. And I didn't go! It was a small talk too. (Eponine's my favorite character; this is why I'm kicking myself now).

[All_For_Laura]

re: Celia is Eponine#41

Posted: 8/25/06 at 11:45pm

If this is true, I cannot wait!

I really like her, and I think she would just make the show!

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[BroadwayChica]

re: Celia is Eponine#42

Posted: 8/26/06 at 12:00am

I can also confirm that Celia is indeed leaving Spelling Bee to do Les Miserables. Heard it from a very reliable source.

[millie_dillmount]

re: Celia is Eponine#43

Posted: 8/26/06 at 12:03am

Who are these reliable sources, just wondering?

Link?

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[LilDiva05]

re: Celia is Eponine#44

Posted: 8/26/06 at 2:09am

Well, Celia signed on for another year in Bee, so I'm guessing she's just taking a leave of absence.

. . . CHRISSY

[neddyfrank2]

re: Celia is Eponine#45

Posted: 8/26/06 at 2:31am

I think Daphne will be a great Fantine, I actually think her voice will fit the role.

[MusicalMo]

re: Celia is Eponine#46

Posted: 8/26/06 at 2:49am

In regard to a "new" cast recording of the show, with this revival cast...who knows, but it seems likely since the show is going to have completely new orchestrations, by a new orchestrator. The show is going to sound quite different from what we know of the show now. The same songs, etc., but for those who don't know what that means, new orchestrations will make the score sound new in a lot of ways. I have mixed feelings, I am rather fond of the original orchestrations. The make Les Miz sound like.....er, Les Miz...lol. Oh well, we'll just all have to wait and see.

[joshy]

re: Celia is Eponine#47

Posted: 8/26/06 at 10:35am

Am I the only person who doesn't like her voice and finds this kinda disappointing?

[WickedGeek28]

re: Celia is Eponine#48

Posted: 8/26/06 at 10:43am

I hope it gets recording, and I'm pretty sure it will. It has a very well respected cast in the Broadway community and with all the changes, people will buy it.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[Sumofallthings]

re: Celia is Eponine#49

Posted: 8/26/06 at 10:49am

I think Ruben-Vega's voice is very raw, very rough, very unglorified and untrained yet still possessing a certain beauty and vulnerability. This fits the character of Fantine perfectly and I think this entire cast is being handpicked for their emotional acting as well as singing. Norm Lewis, Gemingiani (sp?) and Keenan Bolger all have wonderfully expressive voices and those are just the cast members I can remember being in the revival off the top of my head.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"