Jasmine Guy "The Violet Hour"

[Horsey]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:34am

Has anybody heard why Jasmine Guy is no longer with "The Violet Hour?" I heard that she was replaced by her understudy DURING the first preview performance.

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 8:59am

This one might be too hot for even this board to handle. Her slurred words and confusion at where she was during her time on stage might of had something to do with it.

[HotTicket]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 10:06am

I saw "The Violet Hour" October 19 in previews. Jasmine did the entire show and I thought she was good in the role.

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 10:25am

you were the lucky one.

[EffieWhite]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 10:48am

I saw THE VIOLET HOUR last night and I think that its possible that Jasmine Guy realized that she was in a train wreck and knew to GET OUT NOW!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 12:39pm

There's widespread speculation that she was on dope. But couldn't she have been ill? The cryptic messages from MTC suggest she went into the production with "problems."

Anyone here remember when Debbie Reynolds was in WOMAN OF THE YEAR? One night, she got something called "trans-global amnesia..." and started going up in act one, slurring, forgetting every lyric. Couldn't finish, was lead from the stage disoriented. Eerily similar. The understudy -- who had never gone on for Bacall or Raquel -- finished the show. Deb went back, but the show closed in two weeks. This strange behavior at least reminded me of that. At the time Debbie had a lotta 'splainin to do, and it all sounded bogus. But she was taken to the ER.

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 12:47pm

"Trans-global amnesia"? I think I had that last weekend, too many exotic drinks!

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:02pm

How can you be on dope and sign on to do a broadway show? Granted it's a limited run. Jasmine is also in a show on cable
"Dead Like Me" on which she looks pretty focused. Anyway, she was good when I saw "The Violet Hour." Get well Jasmine.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:04pm

There are many high functioning addicts in the world. So high functioning that nobody ever knows of their addiction.

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:08pm

I had heard that Ms. Guy is on anti-depressants and that she may have had a drink or two before the show which reacted badly with what she was on.

Not sure it it's the truth...but it was a pretty reliable source.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:14pm

it was also confusing when the spin from MTC said her earlier reluctance to join the show was based on "family concerns"...unless ongoing family stress had led to her self-medicating. As i posted in another thread about this topic, Guy was certainly discipined enough to play Velma on the road for quite some time, and very well. As to MTC using her or her choosing to sign for the show, as described, the character seems to fit her to a "T". And it was the Tony-winning playwright's next project. And most people love working at MTC. Perhaps we should just ascribe it to the twists of fate. i've always liked her, found her talented, etcetera. MTC rep is good as is the playwright's. Let's hope the added publicity puts all involved in the public eye so that future projects come their way.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:16pm

You know I never gave this woman a thought until now...

Anti- Depressants

Drinking BEFORE a performance!

LOVE HER!

Ya know I actually belive this ..one time I forgot I took 2 Lorzapams and went out and had 3 rum and cokes...

and blacked the F*** out!

Was fully functioning but have the vaguest to no memory of the rest of the evening...

Was sorta cool, actually!

However, I would'nt want that to happen while on stage!

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:17pm

TX,

That was such an evenhanded and fair post that I simply must ask: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING POSTING HERE??? This place is for fanatics and hotheads

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:19pm

Robbie, i know you've asked for another's hand, but i'd like a few dances on your card at your convenience.

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:21pm

I demand TX take something strong and join us in a proper manner, take the red one, it's grooooovvvvy!

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:25pm

Now, Sheek, i'm sure you and Robbie and even Anth are intoxicating enough.

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:30pm

Why Tex, you turn my head with your longhorn charm!

Lucky for you I'm an adultress!!!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:31pm

Anth, when you came out of your blackout were you in a tub of ice? Were you missing an organ? Like your heart?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:34pm

No...And in retrospect I was lucky because I was with a friend...so I knew nothing really bad happened...

but you can only imagine what might have become of me if say, I was at your house namo!!

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:47pm

Like in the film Truth or Dare where Madonna's make-up artist has a blast one night and wakes up bleeding from the behind. And of course Madge giggles like a school girl.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 2:52pm

Madonna giggles slightly and says:

"All I can think ..Is that she was saying she's on tour with me and these guys got it in their heads to F*** with her".

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 3:13pm

Mama Mama Makeup!!!

My friends and I wanted to do a live stage production of TRUTH OR DARE with Madonna played by a sock puppet. I was gonna be Nikki!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 3:19pm

GREAT! You get one of best lines...

The one where Nikki and Mo are in the bathroom and Nikki goes:

"Good thing I don't live here or I'd be a fightin' bitch"

[InspectorJavert]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 3:32pm

she is out due to an injury, according to broadway.com

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 3:34pm

yes, her martini glass crashed into her percadan bottle.