Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition- Page 2
Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#25Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 7:11pmI hope she gets her Tony engraved with something like "Suck it, Bernie!"
#26Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 7:13pmJan Maxwell is a professional. She will probably thank Bernadette in her speech.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#27Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 7:18pmThank Bernadette for sucking so bad that all the FOLLIES votes will go to her!
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
#28Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 7:20pmIf only Bernadette was driving that van a little faster...
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#29Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 7:24pm
There is no way Bernie was driving that van! Everybody knows Bernie arrives at the theater at 7am on show days. She has to feel the space and warm up for hours so she can not hit those soprano notes.
(ftr, that's a joke out of love. J'adore Bernadette but I WORSHIP Jan)
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#30Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 9:26pmHenrik, the year Jan was nominated for more than one Tony, everyone said she "had it in the bag". She didn't win, and the next year she was nominated again, people started joking about putting the Tony in her bag.
#31Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 9:34pmLet's just move the ceremony from the Beacon to Jan's bag.
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
#32Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 9:54pm
Henrik, the year Jan was nominated for more than one Tony, everyone said she "had it in the bag". She didn't win, and the next year she was nominated again, people started joking about putting the Tony in her bag.
You're missing the best part of that story. The original thread had an unfortunate typo in the title- it asked, "Does Jan Maxwell already have the Tony in HER bag?" (emphasis mine)
The use of her instead of the is what prompted the joking to begin, and a legendary phrase to be coined.
And now here we are in 2012, and we've got Jan Maxwell driving around in a van with Tonys in her bag.
From the way she comes off in interviews, Maxwell seems to have a wicked sense of humor. I bet she'd find these threads about bags and vans quite amusing.
#33Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 10:02pmI think "Jan's Van" would make a great talk show. She picks someone up on the corner of 45th and Broadway, drives them around asking them questions, then unceremoniously pushes them out on the sidewalk on 12th Avenue.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#34Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 10:11pmSo it would be like Cash Cab, but for gay people.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#35Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 10:14pm
Adamgreer, I actually didn't know that, which might be why I left it out 
#36Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 10:28pm
So it would be like Cash Cab, but for gay people.
Yeah, but the only prize is being abused by a 4-time Tony loser.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#37Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 10:44pmThey might get sued by the discovery channel because they already had that episode when Seth Rudetsky was on it...
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#38Jan's Bag - 2012 Edition
Posted: 5/1/12 at 10:45pmThanks for the explanations, Adam and Bwaylvsong. It's starting to make some sense now.
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