Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity- Page 3
Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity
re: Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity#50
Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:16pmWell the original got almost everything wrong about Charity. If it were a sparkling new interpretation it would have had a better critical reception. It was a lazy, misguided revival that didn't trust its source material.
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re: Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity#51
Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:25pmPersonally i think had they used the Fosse choreography people/reviewers wouldn't have been quite so quick to jump on it. I do agree the choreography for this production was awful.
re: Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity#52
Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:28pm
Sweet Charity really needs a director/choreographer not a director AND a choreographer. The book is too limp for a non-stylistic production to work. I think someone like Susan Stroman or Jerry Mitchell could have easily used their own choreography successfully.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
re: Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity#53
Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:32pmNicely put, i agree. But I still think Christina was FIERCE.
re: Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity#54
Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:32pmYes, but with Stroman all the numbers would have had to use wacky props.
re: Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity#55
Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:35pm
If you saw Cilento's "choreography" you'd be more than happy with Stroman's prop-ography.
And I loved Applegate, for the record. I thought she was charming. She's a good dancer, I saw her earlier into the injury and though tentative, I could tell the talent was there, who happened to be in a awful production.
re: Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity#56
Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:41pm
Well, Cilento is one of the worst choreographers working on Broadway today.
I could do that Wicked "choreography". CORINE could do that Wicked "choreography".
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