Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
#1Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/17/07 at 7:50pm
Just curious. I searched and couldn't find anything, so did anyone here see her as either Sheila or Cassie? How was she? 
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#2re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/17/07 at 7:56pmI didn't see her, but I can see her making a fantastic Sheila.
"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
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#2re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/17/07 at 8:39pmI can't picture her Cassie, but yeah, her Sheila must have been a fierce bitch.
#3re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/17/07 at 8:56pmShe said in her Chatterbox that Michael Bennett was afraid to even touch her Sheila.
#5re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/18/07 at 12:34pmI saw her as Sheila, but not as Cassie. Neuwirth was very good, better than most of the Sheilas I've seen, but no one has ever played the role as well as Kelly/Carole Bishop. She was dynamite. Sorry.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#6re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/18/07 at 1:31pmWhy did you say sorry? I never said that I thought she was going to be the best.
#7re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/18/07 at 1:32pmReflexive action. I used to be Catholic.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#9re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/18/07 at 1:36pm
Awwww, thanks!
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#10re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:33pm
Carole Bishop! Gilmore Girls!
That's why I couldn't find her on IBDB. Why'd she change her name to Kelly?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#11re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:35pmBecause there was already a Carole Bishop in SAG, or one of the other Screen Actors unions when she went to join after her A CHORUS LINE success.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#12re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/18/07 at 4:55pmI saw here as Sheila - she was great. I had seen the show several times by that point and I remembered her name afterwards.
ILUVTOMG
Stand-by Joined: 8/8/06
#13re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/19/07 at 10:04ami saw her play cassie... both cassie and sheila were out that day (along with about 5 other cast members) and i guess they decided to put her on as cassie. this was pre-frasier/charity and i had no idea who she was yet i remembering watching her and thinking 'this girl would be much better as sheila' lol
#14re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/19/07 at 1:19pmHah, yeah. I have a hard time picturing her playing Cassie, especially since she was like 20, but I bet she danced the hell out of The Music and the Mirror.
philmck
Swing Joined: 3/27/07
#15re: Did anyone see Bebe Neuwirth in ACL?
Posted: 3/27/07 at 12:42am
I saw Bebe play Cassie twice in 1990. After the show closed on B'way, an independent production launched at the Las Palmas Theatre in LA, trying to settle in for a long run, but lasting about three months. Something happened early w/the Cassie in that production and they got Bebe to step in. The theatre was small (about 250 seats?). I didn't really know her cuz I was never into Cheers, so my opinion wasn't colored by star-gazing, but I thought she was fantastic. She was overtly funnier than most Cassies, when she describes her time in H'wood, but the undercurrent is that she's covering up her nervousness at being in the place she is w/Zach, and that she really, really wants to dance again. She had the maturity she probably lacked in the 70s. And she danced the hell out of it.
On a side note, a couple of years later I saw her as Velma opposite Juliet Prowse in Long Beach. Loved her then, too.
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