Jere Shea- Page 2

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 2:49pm

Enchanted Hunter has been fortunate enough to never have been ugly and unrequitedly in love, I guess.

[children&art]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 3:47pm

this is probably not news for ya'll but did you know robert westenberg (cinderella's prince) married kim crosby (cinderella)? he had a small part in "the ice storm" (THAT'S A GOOD MOVIE!)

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 3:55pm

I definitely knew that. I melt every time I think of it because I love them both! I didn't know he was in The Ice Storm, though! I'll have to go and look that up now.

[gettinhep]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 3:59pm

I believe Robert Westenberg is in the 'key party' scene. I'll have to watch that film again...

I have to watch Passion again, too. 'Look at me, Captain. Look at me.'

[WOSQ]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:28pm

Jere Shea is talented, but it is a limited talent. Passion was a show where his role seemed to play to all of his strengths while hiding his weaknesses. I wasn't fully aware of that until I saw him in another play by Pete Gurney called (I think) Labor Day done at Manhattan Theatre Club. In this play Shea was almost stranded alone with little emotional connect to other things that were happening on stage.

Then again, that could have been the way he was directed.

I am also one of those minority voices (on this board at least) who found the original production of Passion to be a chore to watch. So much so that I have had no real desire to see later ones.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:32pm

I saw him in the pre-Broadway run of High Society in SF (playing the role Stephen Bogardus eventually played in NY), and I enjoyed him quite a bit.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:54pm

Jere Shea has serious back problems that were becoming a problem in his acting. Read my interview with Marin Mazzie for a humorous detail!

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:06pm

Isn't that the interview where she said he had Bengay on and it got into a special spot on her?

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:28pm

"It seems time to ask again: Hunter, what shows DO you like?"


Well we know one show he does love...THE LION KING!




That alone should tell you something.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:52pm

Westenberg was also great in Violet. Just thought I'd throw that in.

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 7:04pm

Shea did have back problems during Passion, but I wasn't aware that interfered with his acting.
I can see how some people might have been bored by Passion, it is such a unique show that it doesn't appeal to everyone. However, I consider myself one of the luckiest persons for having been able to see the original production, it doesn't get any better than Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, Marin Mazzie, and Tom Alredge on the same show.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 7:42pm

Lucky...

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 7:43pm

Well, it IS available on DVD... :P

Either way, I don't think Passion is boring at all. I think it's gorgeous and moving, but then again, as I have pointed out before, I have an attention span. Jere Shea is wonderful in the part, and James Lapine directed it just fine. Giorgio's journey is a journey of understatement. There's a subtlety that not everyone will get, and subtlety is just fine in my book.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 8:02pm

anyone who's immature enough to go on a Passion related thread and express his disliking for it is completely immature and should recieve attention from no one.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 8:05pm

:) Oh Isabella and your pretty icon and quite truthful comment!

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 8:08pm

But that's EnchantedHunter's entire schtick :P

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 8:10pm

WOSQ...do me a favor and try again. The first few times I saw it it bored me to death too. Same thing with Sunday in the Park With George. They're now among my favorite shows.

Updated On: 3/28/06 at 08:10 PM

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 9:21pm

"Enchanted Hunter has been fortunate enough to never have been ugly and unrequitedly in love, I guess."

So true, so true.


Vivian Darkbloom
Ramsdale, New England

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 9:24pm

"anyone who's immature enough to go on a Passion related thread and express his disliking for it is completely immature and should recieve attention from no one."

Thanks for the attention. Hugs and kisses!

Tootie 'The Most Horrible' Smith
St. Louis, MO

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 9:55pm

Ohhh, buffyactsing, I can't get over your avatar, that's probably my favorite song in the show...why must Fosca get like 95% of the most amazing songs in Passion?

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 10:04pm

I rather like Giorgio's one song that was cut but is included on the DVD.

[chernjam]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 10:08pm

Someone earlier in the thread said Jere Shea is "no Michael Cerveris..."

You're right - Shea was so much better than Cerveris, and LuPone didn't give a tenth of the performance that Donna Murphy did.

While were on the subject -- As much as I loved Maria Friedman and Michael Ball in Woman in White, even the two of them came up short in Passion. For me, no one has come close to Murphy and Shea's performances.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 11:00pm

Chernjam, to the naughty stool with you. There are no better actors in existence than Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris.

-dislikes Friedman's Fosca.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 11:03pm

Everytime you sign as Tootie, Enchanted, all I picture is Margaret O'Brien saying those words and it disturbs me.

But then again, Mary Astor did say she wasn't much less bratty than her character...

Enchanted, while most of the time I don't agree with you, I am still fascinated by you.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 11:04pm

I like Shea's vulnerability in his final scene with Fosca. It makes me wonder where that was the rest of the show...

Overall I liked Cerveris better, though it was better sung by Shea.

And I agree with you on Donna Murphy, but then again I don't think anyone comes close to matching Donna in pretty much everything...