Emily Skinner Appreciation
Emily Skinner Appreciation
#0Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:12pm
I just got her solo Cd. What an amazing performer, with a versatile voice. Touching and hilarious. Great song selection too. Her "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" is so perfect.
Any other Skinner fans out there?
MoonOnAstring
Stand-by Joined: 10/30/05
#1re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:25pm
I loved her in Side Show, and she was great at Wall to Wall Sondheim. She sang, "Can That Boy Foxtrot"... very funny.
#2re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:30pmShe was great at Wall to Wall, even if she forgot the lyrics. She covered well though.
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#3re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:35pmI've got both of the duet cd's she's done with Alice Ripley and her solo cd as well. I like her voice, it's very versatile. My favorite song on her solo cd is "The Money Tree" - what a track!!
MoonOnAstring
Stand-by Joined: 10/30/05
#4re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:35pm
Haha, yeah she did flub a line or two 
#5re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:37pm
Well at one point she just hums until she remembers the lyrics.
And her "Money Tree" is great. One of my favorite songs in general. I also enjoy her "What Did I Have That I Don't Have".
#6re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:40pmI'm a huge Emily fan. She's consistently superb.
AuditioningWaitress
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/05
ShineOn
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#8re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/6/05 at 11:00pm
She notoriously messes up lyrics. A favorite is when she sang "I'll buy you a wing" instead of "I'll bandage your wing" in the duet "Don't You Be Shaking Your Faith In Me" with A-Rips.
Gotta love it.
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
#9re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/6/05 at 11:04pmWas it her or Alice who messed up during the Tony Awards?
#11re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 12:24am
Yes, Emily is terrific, such a voice--it has such character and richness. And she's a joy to watch on stage. I've had the luck of seeing her in four different productions:
Company at The Kennedy Center (twice)
Merrily We Roll Along at Kennedy Center
The Encores! concert of No Strings
The Full Monty (twice)
#12re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 12:29am
I absolutely adore Emily Skinner! She's just all things amazing. 
#13re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 1:27am
It was most certainly NOT Emily who messed up on the Tony's. It was Alice. She completely blanked out and Emily saved her ass! She had the opening line and started with the second verse which starts with "I'm scared, Daisy" instead of saying, "What have we done?"
It was SUPPOSED to be:
V: "What have we done?
D: "Learned the truth."
V: "Closed a door."
D: "Opened more."
V: "I'm scared, Daisy."
D: "Of what?"
V: "Being alone."
D: "But you're not, you never have been."
INSTEAD, it ended up...
V: "I'm scared, Daisy."
D: (insert Emily needing to explain why Violet is scared... "Hey, let's pick a line from another song in the show! That kind of, sort of, makes sense, right?!") "We've lost our men."
V: "Closed a door."
D: "Opened more."
V: ("Yay, Emily saved my ass and now we can continue like nothing happened and I am once again a happy Alice.. except of course for that damn Natasha Richardson who is going to steal our Tony in five minutes!") "I'm scared."
D: "Of what?"
Etc., etc.!
Emily's quick thinking saved what could have been a messy situation on national television.
Eh, whatever. We all have brain farts every now and then. Alice's are a little more interesting-- like the time she sang into the wrong end of the microphone.
She's special. :)
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#14re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 2:19am
Oh my gosh! I am SUCH a fan. Her voice is wonderful, and she can really deliever a song. I would love to hear her and Raul Esparza do a duet. They are both so similar in that way.
I just recently bought her solo cd. It is amazing. My favorite number is "What did I have..."
#15re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 10:27amMy new favorite number on that CD is "My Brother Lived in San Francisco". Amazing.
#16re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 10:38amI love her "Alto's Lament" from the 2nd duets CD. It's SUCH a scream!!! I've only seen her in Full Monty, but REALLY wish I would have seen Side Show.
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#17re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 1:28pmI loved her in Side Show!
BwayLeadman
Broadway Star Joined: 9/29/04
#18re: Emily Skinner Appreciation
Posted: 11/7/05 at 2:44pmwasn't she suppose to be Ursula in The Little Mermaid. What happened?
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