Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#0Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:14pm
Did someone notify Zepka?
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bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#1re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:18pm
she'll be great!
i love this girl! she is a hottie!
#2re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:19pmYeah, but she lacks just a tad in the acting department...
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MOXIEINTHECITY
Broadway Star Joined: 5/11/06
#3re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:34pm
Yeah...I'm not a fan. Beautiful girl, amazing voice....bad actress. She was too young to be in the POTO movie.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:42pmGood luck with that!! Who's playing Romeo? Owen Wilson?
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#5re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:46pm
In all honesty...she's the only reason I liked POTO...
Then again...she was in Day After Tommorow, w/ Jake Gyllenhaal...so she's automatically awesome.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#6re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 3:08pm
I disagree with the "amazing voice" comment.
And, yes, Emmy Rossum couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#7re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 5:11pmShe annoys the crap outta me. But to each their own.
#8re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 5:19pmMoxie, Emmy was the appropriate age for the part. In the book I believe she is only 16. Christine is often played by older actresses, which explains why many people think she should be at least a decade older.
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#9re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 5:28pmI'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination, but her age is what totally took me out of that film. She looked 16. Which made it a uncomfortable for me to watch her be caresses by an almost 40 year old man. It also seemed like it affected the performance of the male leads. The kiss she and Patrick Wilson had was sterile and cold. POTO is a romantic, sexy, passionate story and it's hard to go with that when your're watching a teenager make out and singl suggestively to men twice her age.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#10re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 6:15pmNo, Christine in the book was Raoul's age, around 20 or so. They wouldn't have a 16-year-old singing the Jewel Song, even back then. I don't know where people get this idea that Christine was so young.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#11re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 6:22pm
Christine was a year younger than Raoul (who was 20 in one paragraph and 21 in another (good job, Leroux *hugs*)) meaning she was either 19 or 20 in the book (this is the tenth time someone has said she was 16, does anyone read the book anymore?). Emmy's singing was not trained enough for the part (and was in no way an "opera voice" as her super!fans claim). Her acting consisted of wide vacant eyes and an open mouth ALL. THE. TIME!!
*done with rant*
Anyway, for the audience's sake, I hope she can emote better on stage.
#12re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 6:53pm
I wish Emmy nothing but the best. She is amazing. Lovely, poised and sweet. With a little more training, she will have one of the most spectacular voices... not that she is half bad now 
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#13re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 7:55pm
oh, i've known... if i had a chance to see it, OBVIOUSLY i would... i still love that girl regardless of what people say 
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#14re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 8:03pmOkay, you never know she could of improved.
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#15re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/21/06 at 11:33pm
I'm working at Williamstown this summer, so I'm already there.
We also have Sharon Lawrence and Matt Cavanaugh in ANYTHING GOES. Kathleen Turner is directing. Kerry Butler is in something.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#16re: Emmy Rossum playing Juliet at Williamstown this summer
Posted: 6/22/06 at 1:28amOpposite of Sex with David Burtka.
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