Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
BroadwayPeasent
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/16
#1Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 9:49pm
I just heard she did in A Little Night from a hotel. Just need confirmation
#2Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 9:52pm
You're that annoying troll who has had 100 different usernames.
BroadwayPeasent
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#3Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 9:53pm
ijay wow I do not think I am a troll. But it took you yonks to figure that out
#4Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 9:55pm
She did spew hot breath all over the stage and shake her head back and forth.
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#5Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 9:58pm
We were talking about how un sexy Jennifer Hudson was. And the hotel concierge compared to CZJ and said she was very sexy and Jennifer did not do the role justice
#6Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 10:01pm
icecreambenjamin said: " She did spew hot breath all over the stage and shake her head back and forth."
I know you're poking fun at her strange Tony performance, but those who actually saw her LIVE in the production can tell you none of that ever occurred in her performances.
#7Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 10:11pm
ljay889 said: "icecreambenjamin said: " She did spew hot breath all over the stage and shake her head back and forth."
I know you're poking fun at her strange Tony performance, but those who actually saw her LIVE in the production can tell you none of that ever occurred in her performances.
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Agreed. I do remember her moving her head a tiny bit near the end of the performance, but it was nothing like the Tony performance - not sure if it was nerves or the unusual setting (e.g., surely having a co-star there every night to fixate on and then suddenly nothing would be a bit weird) - but that Tony performance was so not consistent with her actual performance. Unfortunately, history has been rewritten now and it's all anyone can remember (the Lincoln Archive only recorded her understudy too, if I recall!).
Everyone knows I probably preferred Bernadette in the role (particularly her performance of Clowns and some of her humour), but the show felt like a glamorous event with the CZJ/Lansbury pairing. This was sorely missed.
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#8Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 10:38pm
BroadwayPeasent said: "We were talking about how un sexy Jennifer Hudson was. And the hotel concierge compared to CZJ and said she was very sexy and Jennifer did not do the role justice
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I have no idea how anyone could compare these two roles. There is nothing to compare.
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#9Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 11:24pm
Whatever she was oozing on the Tony Awards needed to be checked out by a doctor.
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#10Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 11:35pm
She oozed forth like a larva, spilling acidic waste all over the stage
#11Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 5/31/16 at 11:42pm
Her performance at the Kerr was much better than what she offered up at the Tonys that year. She was quite good in the role.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#12Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 12:06am
Unfortunately, history has been rewritten now and it's all anyone can remember (the Lincoln Archive only recorded her understudy too, if I recall!).
Several excellent quality video bootlegs exist of La Zeta-Jones in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC so several performances have been archived, just not officially/legally.
#13Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 1:52am
Was she sick during the recording session too? Because "You Must Meet My Wife" sounds like she's stomping on gravel.
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#14Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 7:08am
lol. And Glynis Johns and Judi Dench sound like perfect song birds on their recordings? The role has never required a beautiful singer.
#15Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 7:18am
I loved Zeta-Jones in the night music revival. Some of you are acting like she was the thorn in this revival's side that kept it from being perfect, but it was exactly the opposite. Zeta-Jones and Lansbury were two of the only good things about this production. Alexander Hanson was decent, but the supporting cast was obnoxious and disliked- that cannot be denied- including the most unfunny Charlotte in Erin Davie.
The revival was drab, but Zeta-Jones deserved her Tony and brought some much needed vitality to the proceedings.
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#16Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 7:34am
The Zeta-Jones interpretation has fans, as you can see, but it really didn't work for me. The entire production seemed off. Things got marginally better when Bernadette took over. I saw Bernadette three times during her first month as Desiree and those performances remain among my favorites ever. Unfortunately, I went back to see her one more time late in her run, and she'd started relying too heavily on her bag of tricks.
"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
#17Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 7:49am
She was not very good in the role and then was execrable on the Tony Awards.
But the biggest offense of the production was that instead of a formal dinner, the production had Mme. Armfeldt throw a picnic.
A mere picnic. Al fresco. With the guests sitting in the ground. Eating, if I remember correctly, fried chicken and potato salad. (Well, perhaps I remember the grub incorrectly, but they were definitely on the ground.)
It was as if the legendary British director had failed to understand the lyrics of the song "Liaisons," which might very well have included a lyric to the effect of "What once was a beautiful dinner is now just a miserable picnic."
#18Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 7:53am
Isn't there also a line Armfeldt says about not being seen squatting like bohemians? Which they kind of then do.
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#19Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 7:56am
I'm with Whizzer, I found Zeta-Jones to be the saving grace of a production (along with Lansbury) that was misguided. Zeta-Jones also needed a Fredrick that made for a believable match for her. Hanson (fine if unremarkable) was not it. The whole Chekhov-ness that the director brought seemed so not suited to the material. I think he also forgot that it's supposed to be a bawdy sex comedy, and not THE SEAGULL.
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#20Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 12:31pm
I did see the show and CZJ did spew hot air all over the stage and shake her head. Hansen was boring as was the rest of the cast. The paper thin orchestra made things worse and that hilariously misguided picnic was the final straw. Angela Lansbury was the only good choice that production made.
CZJ did ooze sexiness, but it doesn't mean she was good. I really loved her in Chicago so I was disappointed by her less than stellar performance. I'm sure she could've given a better performance under better direction. I was honestly shocked when she won the Tony.
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#21Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 1:12pm
CZJ was sick during the Tony broadcast (I know because I was connected to the show) but went on because it's the Tonys. The telecast performance was not her best work, unfortunately. That said her work in the role paled against Bernadette. CZJ never seemed to grasp what Send In The Clowns meant or what her character was saying. She always seemed confused. Sexy, but confused.
#22Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 1:39pm
Peters' Clowns was letter perfect every single time I saw her. No doubt, she knocked that number out of the park. It was a perfect delivery. That being said, the rest of her performance was a mixed bag, depending on when in the run you saw her. Early on, it was pretty good, but as the run began to wind down, she, as someone else mentioned, dipped into her bag of tricks, completely disregarding the character she was playing. Her comedy got very, very, broad.
CZJ, overall, gave a lovely performance, though she never quite found the gravitas in Clowns that Peters did. The production itself was much tighter when she was in it, probably because Nunn was still around. At times the direction seemed at odds with the fact that this was musical comedy, not The Seagull. However, that didn't affect CZJ, who still found moments of humor. The performance that suffered the most from the direction was Erin Davie, who early on seemed to have no idea her character was supposed to be funny (tragically funny, but funny nevertheless). She benefited the most from the looser tone the show took during its second year (and by the time the show closed was pretty fantastic).
#23Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 1:51pm
Peters' "Send in the Clowns" was perfect in the beginning, but it devolved as the run went along. She started turning on the tears so heavily that her words just sort of sputtered out in chokes between sobs. The overwrought histrionics kind of defeated the purpose of the song.
"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
#24Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 2:22pm
As someone mentioned, that revival and CZJ have their fans, but there are just as many who did not care for any of it. I saw the production at the Menier and found it to be a missed opportunity, albeit with two fantastic central performances in Hannah Waddingham as Desiree and Maureen Lipman as Mme. Armfeldt. On paper, the Broadway company seemed perfect and I figured in that year since Menier, Nunn might have learned from his mistakes. But when I went to see the Broadway production two months into the run, I was even more disappointed than I was in London.
I found CZJ stunningly beautiful, but lacking any warmth or grace or real connection with anyone on stage. I found Lansbury to also be completely in the wrong direction. Her Mme. Armfeldt, to me, acted like a traditional, cooky, but ultimately loving grandmother, which I've never found the character to be. And the entire supporting company, while mostly well-sung all seemed as if they were in different shows, and none of those shows were Night Music.
I went back in July to see Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch during their second week of performances, mostly because I knew that if I didn't, I would never see Stritch live in anything. While Stritch was known to drop lines and miss entire verses, she was letter perfect on the text the night I saw her and she and Peters were beyond exceptional. The entire company, in fact, while not 100% there, had all shifted their performances in the right direction, which I think came more from that Nunn had left the company and they all slowly removed themselves from his drab vision.
I went back and found my old review of the show, ending with this line: "What this production needs is Michael Blakemore's comedic timing, Bartlett Sher's style and NONE of Trevor Nunn's 'elegance.'" I still agree with it.
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Updated On: 6/1/16 at 02:22 PM
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#25Did CZJ ooze sexiness in A little night music?
Posted: 6/1/16 at 4:10pm
adamgreer said: "Her performance at the Kerr was much better than what she offered up at the Tonys that year. She was quite good in the role.
I agree.
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