Here comes the WONDERFUL Brooke

[AvalonSkysStudios]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 12:01pm

I just saw pics of Brooke in WT on Broadway.com
http://www.broadway.com/template_3.asp?CT=26&CI=42225&AP=3&NA=F

and i realy dont know if this is gonna work.
So many people have said that this was the best thing
that ever happened to the show, but i think that it is
a bad bad choice....
I know she is great with choreography.. but how is she
when she sings Swing and Conga...

Was anyone at the Hirschfeld Theatre that night??

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 4:07pm

I think she will be great. Ruth dosen't call for a great singer. And a lot of the notes Donna took in Conga, and Swing were optional.

[musicalfandukie]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 4:44pm

i agree with ljay889

[BJC899]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 5:29pm

I just saw the new commercial and she looks great!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 6:40pm

To nitpick: Why film a commercial that is basically just a video of a photo-shoot? This character is a plain unmarried 40ish gal from Ohio, but the advertisement suggests a chic NY urban woman ... who looks like a model ... you know, like former model Brooke Shields. I agree she looks damned stunning, but it's a strange sort of magazine approach to selling a show that's never been about Ruth's glamour.

[Mattio98]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 6:54pm

I always thought that Ruth was supposed to be kind of homely and DEFINITELY not glamorous. More of a rough-tough, working class gal.

[Hank]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 7:14pm

I saw the show Thursday (Sep 30) and Brooke looked very nice indeed, but not stunningly beautiful, and she fits the character to a t. She spoke in a dialect just like in those old 1930's movies, very smooth and smoky, and I thought she handled her dance routines very well, especially concidering she only had two weeks to rehearse. It has been stated here and elsewhere that she is not that great a singer, and I agree, but as stated above, "Ruth dosen't call for a great singer".
Jennifer Hope Wills as Ruth's sister Eileen is as stunningly beautiful as the charcter calls for, and she has a lovely voice. I especially liked her in her solo "A Little Bit In Love".

[musicgal04]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 7:16pm

After seeing the show, it felt like the direction Ruth went was that she was pretty but Eileen is just prettier(There is a lot of emphasis on Eileen's chest now). But that could have just been my interpretation of what they did with it.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 10/2/04 at 7:45pm

Thanks, Hank. The proof is in the performance, and you make a persuasive case.