Faith Prince in ANNIE tonight- Page 2

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 10:21pm

For the love of God, has anyone seen Faith Prince in Annie yet?

[chewy5000]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 10:30pm

Yes.

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 10:31pm

No, the theater was completely empty and nobody saw her.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 10:38pm

The performance I attended was a benefit for the Helen Keller School For the Blind. The house was packed but no one saw her.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 10:41pm

That joke would have been funny in 1971.


Maybe.

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 10:42pm

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 10:43pm

Jordan, YOU would have been funny in 1971.


Maybe.

Updated On: 7/20/13 at 10:43 PM

[NoName3]

Posted: 7/20/13 at 11:19pm

Edited after Monsieur le Directeur's comment below to say only "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Click click click. Click click click. Click click click.

Damn.
Updated On: 7/21/13 at 11:19 PM

[A Director]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 3:42am

NoName3,

If you click your heels three times, you'll return to 1977.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 8:10am

Ok, was Faith good?!

[chewy5000]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 8:12am

Maybe.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 10:27am

When people realized it wasn't the lady from Glee they all left.

[Matt1]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 1:00pm

I saw her! I liked her interpretation of the role. She played it very differently from Katie Finneran. At times, I felt he was unsure of herself, but it was her first performance. Give her a few weeks and she will be excellent.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 3:12pm

Yeah - after all she's only a professional actress with over 25 years of experience on Broadway. She only learned that she had the role a couple of months ago. It's possible she had never heard the songs before, and had no idea how to play the character. You can't expect her to actually be "good" without a few weeks of performing for people who shelled out $150 to see her.

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 5:02pm

I doubt many people are seeing the show specifically for her.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 6:24pm

Regardless of how many years experience you have, it still takes time to get your stage legs in the role and integrate. Cut her some slack. Lynch was just playing Sue Sylvester Hannigan, so no lead time was needed.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 6:56pm

Ugh, I imagine Lynch was just dreadful, judging from what I've heard and seen on the Tony's.

It's a shame what they're doing to this wonderful part and show. And don't even get me started on that movie they're doing.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 7:05pm

Wait, you mean somebody's actually SEEN Faith Prince in the show?

What the hell is THAT doing in this thread?!

[Younger Brother]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 7:15pm

"Ugh, I imagine Lynch was just dreadful, judging from what I've heard and seen on the Tony's."

Well you didn't actually see her so your opinion means very little.

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 7/21/13 at 7:27pm

"It's a shame what they're doing to this wonderful part and show."

Oh...get over it.

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 7/28/13 at 7:28pm

I saw Faith Prince today at Lilla's final performance, and I have to say her Broadway reunion with Charles Strouse is a happy one.

She was my favorite of the three Hannigans and seems to have formed the most complete character, even if she's still finding a joke here and there. She doesn't play it as over the top as her two predecessors, and its to the benefit of the production.

I'm not very good at telling when keys are changed, but my friend and I both thought that Little Girls was lowered.

Lilla's voice is still a powerhouse; there were no curtain speeches or goodbyes.

The production still is what it is, and no casting will change that.

On a side note, the audience was awful today. Texting, talking, moving around, constantly getting up and leaving the theater- just distraction after distraction. I was ready to start picking people up and throwing them off the balcony.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 7/28/13 at 7:32pm

^ How is the view from the balcony for this show? I was up there for Priscilla and it didn't bother me, but for Annie do you miss any of the set?

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 7/28/13 at 7:36pm

I mean I dislike the Palace balcony in general, but the sight lines for this show are perfectly fine, and really it's not worth paying any more to see this show!

[VotePeron]

Posted: 7/28/13 at 7:48pm

Thanks, Whizzer! In case anyone else needs a warning, I'll add on...the matinee audiences at this show are HORRIBLE. I sat in the mezzanine and felt like I was at a highschool performance because of the audiences behavior. (This has nothing to do with the production - I quite love it, in fact!)

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/28/13 at 8:00pm

It's disappointing to hear they've lowered the keys. Faith Prince's high belt seems to be a thing of the past, or at least her confidence in it is. They lowered the keys for her in THE LITTLE MERMAID as well to a really detrimental degree.

Whizzer, I'm surprised there was no recognition of it being so many of the orphans' last performance. Did Lilla Crawford seem at all emotional? I've heard rumblings from people involved with the show that there was a lot of animosity from her team over the decision not to renew her contract (since it wasn't an issue of her outgrowing the role).

Updated On: 7/28/13 at 08:00 PM