Debra Monk as Ursula - can anyone see it?- Page 2
Debra Monk as Ursula - can anyone see it?
#25Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:33pm
See, I think the way she uses her voice in Grey Gardens is amazing. The way she integrates voice and character has to be tricky. Nothing forced there for me.
We watched the Leading Ladies DVD last week and my partner, re: Debra Monk said: "Wow, she's trying hard isn't she". That sums up Musical Comedy Monk for me. Trying a bit too hard.
#26Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:34pmShe sings Everybody's Girl in character - that's just the way she did it in STEEL PIER. Her character is an over-the-top radio singer.
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#27Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:35pmI think there's a different between 0ver-the-top and vocally forced.
#28Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:36pmI don't get how you can see the integration with Ebersole and not with Monk. It's exactly the same concept.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#29Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:38pm
To each their own, I think.
I think the answers to this are in the "Fattest Cat" thread. 
#30Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:39pmI'll have to check that out!
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
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#31Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:39pm
Back OT:
I think she could be good if they were not going the route they are clearly going to take. I typically like Debra Monk, although I did think someone had attacked my mother when I first heard her in "Company" this summer.
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#32Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:41pm
You missed the "Fattest Cat" thread Rath?
I wonder if it got deleted. We learned a lot from that thread.
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#33Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 4:42pm
Its fun to read all these posts in order.
Not that I haven't been watching them unfold for the last 30 minutes... but its still fun.
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#34Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 5:28pmI must say that even though I adore Sherie I can not stand the though of her as Ursula. It just seems like there are SO many people who could do it better
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#36Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula? Can't wait to see it!
Posted: 3/6/07 at 5:49pm
iluvtheatertrash, what one of the initial posters was trying to say wasn't that Monk couldn't do the role because Sherie Rene Scott had been cast but that she couldn't do it because Disney is going the route of having the same actress that plays Ursula play Vanessa (her younger, beautiful form.) Debra wouldn't work in the capacity Disney is having the part do on stage.
Monk is a very tricky to cast in alot of things. I have seen her fall flat in shows like "Company" and "Chicago" (more the former than the latter) in roles that one would think, on paper, she'd be perfect for. On the other hand though I've loved her in parts of the same nature in shows like "Curtains" and "Steel Pier," so (for me at least) she seems to be very hit and miss.
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Updated On: 3/6/07 at 05:49 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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