Faith Prince - The Downfall...

[ThePinballWizard]

Faith Prince - The Downfall...#1

Posted: 6/16/08 at 3:27am

How did Faith Prince go from Point A to Point Z in a matter of a short few months? Word of mouth in the beginning was that she was the one to beat this season, even beyond Patti's Rose. And then to show her up there screeching out a select few notes in a show that was nominated for almost nothing. I felt really sad for her knowing how much she worked her hooha off in this role.

And now to leave the ceremony tonight with nothing and at the bottom of the heap.

How did it happen? Was it the show (and the negative press around it) that brought poor Faith down to zero?

"Isn't it strange that we spend most of our time learning to do what they put people in asylums for." - Jane Fonda on Acting

Updated On: 6/16/08 at 03:27 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#2

Posted: 6/16/08 at 3:34am

The performance did not come off well outside the context of the show. Not to mention that having Matt and Leslie dancing on a completely different stage than where Faith was singing took away from the power the number holds in the show.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[Eris0303]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#2

Posted: 6/16/08 at 3:51am

I wouldn't call Faith the "bottom of the heap" but even so - what a heap to be at the bottom of. She was in GREAT company this year and that award could have gone any number of ways. Kelli O'Hara was as deserving of the award just as much as Faith who was as deserving as Patti, etc.

"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

[Liverpool]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#3

Posted: 6/16/08 at 3:57am

when the hell were people buzzing her above patti?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#4

Posted: 6/16/08 at 3:59am

Before it began previews.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[jeniferrenepatricia]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#5

Posted: 6/16/08 at 5:04am

I thought that Faith Prince was wonderful, but I felt as soon as I left the theater that she didn't have a shot against Patti. In my opinion, Patti is a better actress, singer, and performer. Not to say that Faith Prince isn't- just not in Patti's league.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis

[MovieGuy1031]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#6

Posted: 6/16/08 at 6:12am

I blame her hair.

Did you see that monster? It was out-of-con-TROL!

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- Eeyore

[Vespertine1228]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#7

Posted: 6/16/08 at 8:08am

That note was painful. I felt really bad for her.

[DottieD'Luscia]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#8

Posted: 6/16/08 at 8:14am

I attributed her being off-key was that she couldn't hear the orchestra.

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[adamgreer]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#9

Posted: 6/16/08 at 8:38am

The minute I walked out of A Catered Affair, I said she didn't stand a chance against LuPone. That performance was much ado about nothing.

[Smaxie]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#10

Posted: 6/16/08 at 8:47am

Still, she's got another career-defining role in her. And I'd sure like see HER take on Rose someday...

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[SheepyFuzz]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#11

Posted: 6/16/08 at 9:18am

I *love* Faith Prince, but I thought her performance last night was awful. It sounded like she was really struggling to sing; some of her notes were sharp.

I wouldn't say that she's experiencing a "downfall." I would say she just had a bad night.

[SirNotAppearing]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#12

Posted: 6/16/08 at 9:19am

I felt a little bad for her. That last note-ouch!

[zamedy]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#13

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:02am

I still think she was one of the best Miss Adelaide's ever. Love her on the 1992 cast recording!

[WithoutATrace]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#14

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:13am

She was also brilliant in NICK & NORA. Did not sound very good last night though...

[H.Higgins]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#15

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:17am

-- "when the hell were people buzzing her above patti?"

They never were, in reality. Remember how, though, many have been unwilling to let Patti's win be a sure-thing for basically as long as it was known that it was a sure-thing? Well, it was in that spirit that, looking to try to force a competition where there didn't need to be one, people started "buzz" on Faith Prince winning for A Catered Affair before it opened.

[PalJoey]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#16

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:22am

The OP's question is more than a trifle melodramatic and the use of the word "downfall" is overblown.

Faith Prince is a wonderful actress, she got wonderful reviews for her performance, and she will give more wonderful performances in the future.

And WAT-- no one was "brilliant" in Nick and Nora--it was that bad.

[BrianS]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#17

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:23am

Actually, people were buzzing her above Patti. I heard several people in our business first hand, people with big names and stellar reputations, talk about her performance being the one to beat this year back before the show arrived in NY.

If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them. - Ethel Merman

[JRybka]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#18

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:28am

I think that Faith is enjoying her time in Sacramento more then worrying about Broadway these days.

She is an amazing talent and she has had some amazing roles to play.

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

[Patash]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#19

Posted: 6/16/08 at 10:31am

Let me tell you something folks. However Faith Prince ended up last night, it was way up the heap from where she was after the miserable mess called Kismet last summer in London -- when she was skewered by the critics and the show was an embarrassment to all.

I agree that the song last night makes no sense out of context to the show. It's not about a singer -- it's about a real woman who is a mother with something to say -- and she does it so well in the show, as a real person, not as a trained singer.

[ThePinballWizard]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#20

Posted: 6/16/08 at 11:01am

In response to Pal Joey's thread about my thread being a little overdramatic. Lest we forget it's theater after all.

I didn't mean it as if it was the downfall of Faith Prince in general...I meant her downfall in this show. I'm sure she's fantastic in it and everything else. I meant how did she fall so far so fast from what was supposed to be an anticipated return to Broadway?

"Isn't it strange that we spend most of our time learning to do what they put people in asylums for." - Jane Fonda on Acting

[Jon]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#21

Posted: 6/16/08 at 11:09am

Nothing new here. In Guys and Dolls, she often didn't sing the actual notes as written. On the Falsettos recording, she is often under pitch.

[ljay889]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#22

Posted: 6/16/08 at 11:17am

People DEFINITELY were buzzing about performance being the one to beat. I won't name names, but people flat out said here "Faith Prince WILL beat Patti LuPone." And then GYPSY opened with once in a lifetime reviews and AFFAIR opened to mediocre reviews, and everything changed.

[jonartdesigns]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#23

Posted: 6/16/08 at 12:50pm

my exact words after seeing her tony performance were "wow, i never thought i'd say this but they should have cut this completely and given the mermaid more time"

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

[into_the_woods2]

re: Faith Prince - The Downfall...#24

Posted: 6/16/08 at 12:52pm

i feel really bad for her, the performance was not great

"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch