#1
Posted: 2/28/05 at 10:26am
Whom do YOU prefer?
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
Irra Petina vs. Carmen Mathews
#2
Posted: 2/28/05 at 10:39am
Irra! CANDIDE and SONG OF NORWAY guaranteed her immortality.
#3
Posted: 2/28/05 at 12:08pm
It all depends. Did Irra SIGN? and was she, like, NICE to the fans?
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
#4
Posted: 2/28/05 at 12:37pm
Irra crossed all generational boundaries. She signed "Idina Petina" and EVERYONE was happy!
#5
Posted: 2/28/05 at 1:04pm
I've always felt bad for Irra for that performance where she broke her coccyx when a trap door opened early during the Infant Casmira section of Candide.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#6
Posted: 2/28/05 at 1:13pm
I met Irra Petina when I was a child in the childrens chorus at the Met. She was a howl!!! But she could deliver a performance and she was adored by all. She also had a huge gay following and was quite the cutup in some famous gay clubs of the thirties and forties.
Miram
Miram
Every movement has a meaning--but what the hell does it mean!
#7
Posted: 2/28/05 at 1:28pm
Jeez! The gay clubs of the 30s and 40s were so much luckier! Now we get Jai Hernandez.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#8
Posted: 2/28/05 at 1:33pm
Who? Obviously you were never in the clubs where Shirley Booth and Vivienne Segal presided. Oh, to be young again!
Miriam
Miriam
Every movement has a meaning--but what the hell does it mean!
#9
Posted: 2/28/05 at 1:43pm
Ah, if only I had been born in 1915. I could have been there. I SHOULD have been there.
Master, Wildcat, I'll meet you at the Astor Bar. You KNOW which side.
Master, Wildcat, I'll meet you at the Astor Bar. You KNOW which side.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#10
Posted: 2/28/05 at 2:04pm
There was nothing quite like Vivienne Segal leading the boys--and a few of the girls--in a sing a long.
Miriam
Miriam
Every movement has a meaning--but what the hell does it mean!
#12
Posted: 2/28/05 at 3:56pm
Yeah, but could Irra Petina have done Hamlet, Morning's at Seven AND A Delicate Balance?
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#13
Posted: 2/28/05 at 3:58pm
I highly doubt that she has that range.
#14
Posted: 2/28/05 at 4:08pm
Not to mention I'm Solomon!
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#15
Posted: 3/1/05 at 12:55am
If Carmen had done ANYA and Irra had done DEAR WORLD, would it have changed the world as we know it?
#16
Posted: 3/1/05 at 1:21am
If Irra did Anya, I'd bet the Ziegfeld Theatre would still be standing.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#17
Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:16am
Why not have someone write a musical about the fabled duo. Perhaps Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley could star. ANd we could get Wright and Forrest to write a score based on the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.
Miriam
Miriam
Every movement has a meaning--but what the hell does it mean!
#18
Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:31am
Remember when Wright and Forrest wrote a musical version of CYRANO for Jose Ferrer in the '70s that only ever played summer stock? Well, we could use that score...only instead of Cyrano and Roxanne the girls would be playing Carmen and Irra! Although Irra's nose was a tad snub as I recall...
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