Ebersole and Davie: together again in APPLAUSE!- Page 2

[jaimiecheno]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:21pm

Christine did confirm Burton and Cantone...FYI. =)

I will be at the invited dress--can't wait!

[jaystarr]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:23pm

wow.. thank you great cast.... Christine Ebersole, Erin Davie, Kate Burton and Mario Cantone....

I have not bought my ticket yet... I might just decided to buy the $95.00 tix for this one.. ehemmm.. again...

J*

[philcrosby]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:36pm

Miss Penny -- Since APPLAUSE was my very first Broadway show, I have such a soft spot for it. Would love to go if the stars align for that!!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:59pm

Well, I am going the evening of Saturday, February 9, so if you're in NYC that day, Phil...

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 5:49pm

Anyone know if they're doing the revised version of the show, the one that played Papermill? It allowd Margo to sing APPLAUSE at the top of the show. It was reconfigured (a smart decision) to start the show with a terrific number, previously lacking ("backstage babble" --uh, no). Let's hope, because Ebersole can tear into it as Bacall could not.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 7:03pm

I am just grateful I will not have to hear Bacall sing "Hurry Back." That was (and will forever be) excrutiating!

[MadProps86]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:18pm

I've not seen or heard the music from Applause, but I fell in love with both Christine Ebersole and Erin Davie (so upset I didn't get to see The Glorious Ones) in Grey Gardens. I'll definitely make an effort to see the show.

[CouldaWouldaShoulda]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 12:11am

Haha, Chip Zein is part of the cast too.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 12:15am

Any news on the Bonnie Franklin role?

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 1:11am

Bonnie will be played by Megan Sikora.

From Playbill.com:

Casting is now complete for the Betty Comden-Adolph Green-Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical that will feature the previously announced Ebersole in the role created on Broadway by Lauren Bacall. Ebersole will be joined onstage by Davie (Eve Harrington), Kate Burton (Karen Richards), Mario Cantone (Duane Fox), Tom Hewitt (Howard Benedict), Michael Park (Bill Sampson), Megan Sikora (Bonnie) and Chip Zien (Buzz Richards).

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 2:36am

Ugh, I didn't realize Kathleen Marshall was directing this show, what a turn off. Let's hope is more like WONDERFUL TOWN less like, you know, GREASE.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 3:25am

It very well may end up like WONDERFUL TOWN, considering WT was started at City Center too.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:01am

That's why I made the comparison, LJay. I'm just really skeptical of her so-called "talents."

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:06am

Because of her ONE bad show?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:26am

One bad show? Hardly.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:48am

Her Choreography for WONDERFUL TOWN was less than mediocre. The only reason she won that Tony was because it was a weak season for Choreography.

Her Choreography Tony for PAJAMA GAME should have gone to Casey Nicholaw, who, if it were not for John Doyle and his SWEENEY TODD work that season, would have won for Best Direction of a Musical.

Nicholaw directed and choreographed the season's best musical. He deserved a Tony to recognize his work on DROWSY that season.

The only reason PAJAMA GAME won anything was because some producers lied by saying they were going to pick it up for a commercial run.

Nicholaw proved himself again by directing and choreographing the gorgeous FOLLIES production at Encores last season.

He deserves any new work over Marshall, in my opinion.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:52am

I have to agree.
Nicholaw surpassed my expectations with FOLLIES last year, it would have been great to see what he could have done with APPLAUSE.

[stella985]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 10:25am

I know Megan Sikora is playing "Bonnie" but what part would that be in All About Eve? Or is it not in the movie at all? I've never seen Applause, but I'm curious.

[jewishboy]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 1:56pm

Marshall usually fares better at Encores! than Broadway (IMO). But, I too wish that this was in the hands of a more... interesting director/choreographer. At least Gary Griffin isn't directing this one.


Updated On: 1/12/08 at 01:56 PM

[jv92]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 2:05pm

If the title song turns into a big, happy, all smiles, trying to be quirky Kahtleen Marshall number with the gypsies dancing around in pastel bellbottoms and turtlenecks, I might have to kill myself. It is a production number, yes, but not that kind of production number.

"I know Megan Sikora is playing "Bonnie" but what part would that be in All About Eve? Or is it not in the movie at all? I've never seen Applause, but I'm curious."
Bonnie is not in All About Eve. Bonnie is Bonnie Franklin, a gypsy character invented to sing the title song and do nothing much else. When Leland Palmer went into the show the role was renamed Leland. I'm suprised the part hasn't been renamed Megan for Ms. Sikora.
And I too would have loved to see Nicholaw do applause.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 8:52pm

One bad show? Hardly.

What are the others?

[jv92]

Posted: 1/17/08 at 7:53pm

"What are the others?"

Despite the fact that I loved Connick and O'Hara (and McKean for that matter) in Pajama Game, it was a rather mediocre production. The lamebrain ensemble smiled big phony smiles too much. I felt like Marshall made Prez and Mae more central to the story than Hines and his girlfriend secretary. I hated that the girlfriend secretary, originally played by Carol Haney, did not do Steam Heat. They really could have hired a dancer despite how good Megan Lawrence was.
She murdered Follies! MURDERED IT! So did the director of that so called "production" that Roundabout did, but she was just as responsible.
And don't get me started on Grease.
So one mediocre production, two awful ones. Wonderful Town was good and Kiss Me, Kate's brilliance was mostly thanks to Michael Blakemore.
Yes neddyfrank, there are others. However, she has done good work at Encores! so Applause could be pretty darned good.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 10:42pm

I already have tickets to see this on February 10. I am not familiar with this show so I sat down to listen to the OBC recording. Is it me, or is this score pretty awful? About nine versions of "This is the Song that Goes Like This?"

[jv92]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 11:06pm

Does it compare to Strouse's most striking, brilliant, moving show, Golden Boy? Absolutely not. Does it even compare to Bye Bye Birdie? Not really. However, I think Applause's score has its charm. Certainly Welcome to the Theatre, But Alive, Good Friends, One of a Kind, One Halloween and the title number have their merits, especially Welcome to the Theatre, which I consider to be one of Charles Strouse's absolute best songs musically and one of Lee Adam's most remarkable lyrics.

[elimeyer]

Posted: 1/26/08 at 11:36pm

I will be there Feb 7th as well!
Finally an opening night!
I am so jazzed. Saw this on it's 1st National Tour in L.A.