Jesse and Lea do "I Can Cook Too"
Jesse and Lea do "I Can Cook Too"
#1Jesse and Lea do "I Can Cook Too"
Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:34am
http://youtu.be/Nu62QxZSFiw
Stumbled onto this and love it for so many reasons. Two homos playing hetero in a love song. Two stage actors who 15 years later would become famous from TV series.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#2Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/27/14 at 6:40pm
Wow I never saw Lea dolled up like that.
With a little make up and some real hair she's not such
an ugly duckling.
#2Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/27/14 at 6:43pmDid I miss the memo on it being ok to call people homos?
#3Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/27/14 at 7:13pmSorry, but I saw DeLaria and she was terrible. No style, no subtlety, and no chemistry with JTF whatsoever. When she wasn't scatting, she was screaming.
"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
#4Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/27/14 at 10:20pm
I think it's okay for a homo to call another homo a homo but heteros can't do it. 
#5Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/28/14 at 3:26pmJTF look and Lea look and act like a brother being amazed at his wacky older sister. Zero sex appeal between them.
#6Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/28/14 at 3:54pmHave to say, Alysha Umphress' take on the song is vastly, vastly superior.
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#7Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/29/14 at 8:56am
"JTF look and Lea look and act like a brother being amazed at his wacky older sister. Zero sex appeal between them."
That video doesn't do it justice, it's very cleaned up and sanitized for Rosie's audience. It was much much MUCH better, much funnier and hornier at the Gershwin, trust me. They were the sole actors on that stage with any connection at all.
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#8Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/29/14 at 4:05pmHow unfortunate that their publicity appearance came off as so bland and boring then, if the actual stage version was better. If I saw that on TV I wouldn't be excited to see the show at all.
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#9Jesse and Lea do
Posted: 10/29/14 at 10:01pm
"JTF look and Lea look and act like a brother being amazed at his wacky older sister. Zero sex appeal between them."
I don't disagree, but how has any production of ON THE TOWN (including the film) ever been different? Nancy Walker and sex appeal? I don't think so, though she was a genius.
I didn't see OTT, but Delaria was a revelation in THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE in Los Angeles. It was very much like seeing Ethel Merman (another broad with "no sex appeal") again: big voice, big stage presence and (to quote Sondheim) "great low comedienne". (And, yes, I saw Merman live.)
I'd go see Dekaria in any comedy. Maybe some of the musical comedies ya'll have found so anemic (see BULLETS OVER BROADWAY) could have used her..
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