Gunn and Voight for "Annie Get your Gun" at Glimmerglass next year?

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 11:55am

At least it's a rumor floating on a (usually very reliable) opera blog: http://parterre.com/2010/07/21/anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-shirtless/.

If so...i'm already there!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 12:07pm

I don't know who either of those people are.

[keithp]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 12:14pm

Isn't google an amazing tool? Almost as quick as posting on here.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 12:14pm

I should state I also don't care who these people are.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 12:17pm

Nathan Gunn was Lancelot in Camelot with Marin Mazzie and Gabriel Byrne. How can anyone forget those leather pants? I think we spent most of the live telecast discussing them.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 12:19pm

Nathan Gunn would be great, shirtless or not.

Deborah Voight would have fun with it--and she slimmed down a lot after the Little Black Dress scandale--but I don't think she could really get backwoods enough for it to be totally successful...except for dedicated opera fans, who would have as much fun watching her as she would have doing it.

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 12:39pm

"Nathan Gunn would be great, shirtless or not."

...but preferably great shirtless.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 1:12pm

Nathan Gunn in Billy Budd



and in An American Tragedy at the Met

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 1:15pm

Anyone else see Voight, think Jon Voight & get a little scared?

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 1:43pm

Dying to see Nathan's Billy Budd (double entendre?) in the 2010/2011 season. The man is simply scrumptious!

Thanks for posting the pics AEA AGMA SM...loved him in American Tragedy.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 1:52pm

I don't see Tim Gunn and Jon Voight as an appealing stage couple.

[mallardo]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 1:57pm

Well, if anyone can sing louder than Ethel Merman it will be Deborah Voight. I'm assuming Glimmerglass, an opera house, does not use microphones.

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 2:04pm

Looks like on Voight, but sadly, no Nathan. Instead we have...Rod Gilfry.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/141417-Glimmerglass-Annie-Get-Your-Gun-Finds-Its-Annie-Oakley-and-Frank-Butler

[keithp]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 2:24pm

'I should state I also don't care who these people are.'
Then why bother to post at all in the thread - it is very tiresome. Leave it to people who are interested.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 2:27pm

Rodney Gilfry is pretty easy on the eyes and thighs, I'll tell you. If I thought I had Nathan Gunn and Rodney Gilfry showed up at the door, I'd cry no tears.

This casting will be unmitigated. Whether a triumph or a disaster, who knows, but it might be worth a trip to Cooperstown.

Debbie Voight has always had an adventurous streak as well as a sense of humor, and I hope she has a blast and makes the audience have one too.

The mainstage at Glimmerglass seats about 900.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 3:57pm

I'm there.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 3:58pm

I'd like to see it too.

[dayao]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:13pm

I am sure they have the vocal chops to sing it acoustically but little else. Just what we need to entice a contemporary audience to this charming, tuneful show, a 50 year old Annie & a 52 year old Frank Butler. Yuk!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:23pm

I don't think the Glimmerglass audience has ever been described as "contemporary," even when they actually were contemporary.

[dayao]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:40pm

You are so right, Joey; but in the last few years Glimmerglass have been trying to attract younger audiences to replace the old fogies who seem to be staying away or dying off.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:41pm

Voight seems a strange choice for the role. I'll be interested to hear how this goes. Annie Get Your Gun just doesn't seem like a show that big professional opera singers would ever want to take on.
I am also amused that PRS had no idea who these people are, Nathan Gunn and Debbie Voight are two fairly big names.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 10:04pm

Anyone else see Voight, think Jon Voight & get a little scared?

Scared? No. Interested? Yes. I immediately thought Jon Voight and thought he might play Buffalo Bill which is not a big vocal part.