Karmine Alers
Karmine Alers
LadiPynk96
Swing Joined: 8/21/05
#0Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 2:37pmKarmine Alers is the best. I think, hands down, that she is the most talented star on broadway. No "if", "and" or "buts" about it. There are many stars that come close. Destan Owens is amazing as well as Idina Menzel, but Karmine is Broadways #1 star.
#2re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 2:46pm
Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing your opinion.
Could you offer some specific examples of why you feel she is the greatest performer on Broadway?
#3re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 2:50pmI really liked it when I saw her in Rent this summer. She was great performing Out Tonight and tears were rolling down my cheeks during Goodbye Love. The clips from her album definitely make me want to go out and get it.
Dov'`e mia luce, mio cor?
#4re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:15pm
i've seen her a few times, and yes she is simply amazing. But i feel like she's been in this role, or involved with RENT somehow for like 40 years or something.
Does anyone know when her current contract is up?
#5re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:19pmi think she is one of the strongest actors in rent at the moment. her out tonight is amazing.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#6re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:23pm
I LOVE LOVE LOVE HER!!!!!!!OMG! She is the BEST Mimi anyone could ask for! When I saw her, her acting and singing was SUPERB! I would LOVE to see her in another show though. Btw, last night I listend to afew of those clips from her CD, and was very dissapointed.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#7re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:27pmFosseBoi~ You were disappointed huh. I think I might have liked half of them overall. It is hard to tell with how short the clips are.
Dov'`e mia luce, mio cor?
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#8re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:33pm
I agree with you that it IS hard to tell from just little clips. But like I said, I only hearda FEW of the clips. I'll go back right now and listen to the rest. I'll report back with my opinion.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#9re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:48pm
Karmine is awesome. She was Mimi both times I saw Rent, and I was amazed at how good she was.
I think her last performance as Mimi is October 16th. (I think!!!) After that, she will stay with teh show as a swing.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#10re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:55pm
Ok, so I went back to her site and listend to the clips I didnt get to listen to last night, and relistend to some of the others. I really dont like the "OUT Tonight" thing. I like a few of those clips, but others I dont. I'll still get her CD though, just because she's Karmine Alers and I HAVE to support her!lol!
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#11re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 4:59pm
Karmine is an amazing Mimi who really has the whole package: the voice, the moves and plays the role with sexy yet vulnerable personality 
#12re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:03pm
I am not suprised that she is getting such great reviews.
Her sister was my all time favorite Mimi out of roughly 10-15 different actress. (Yes I saw Daphne multiple times) Yassmin was simply phenominal and was just a sweet as can be also.
DefyingPopular
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/05
#13re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:05pmKarmine's great. I've seen her a bunch of times in Rent, as Maureen, Mimi and Mark's mom. She shines as Mimi tho! She adds her own unique 'pop/belt' voice to the role and nails it. I got chills last time!
#14re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:17pmI just went to her site and listened to the clips......her voice sounds so different than she does live!! Maybe it's my computer or something....I hope so, because it still sounds good to me but if it sounds so different than she does live it must have been tampered with by computers and such, right? It just sounds like she lost that unique quality that she gets as Mimi.
#15re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:18pmI just went to her site and listened to the clips......her voice sounds so different than she does live!! Maybe it's my computer or something....I hope so, because it still sounds good to me but if it sounds so different than she does live it must have been tampered with by computers and such, right? It just sounds like she lost that unique quality that she gets as Mimi.
#16re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:45pmI saw her as Mimi my first time back in 2002 ... she was absolutely phenomenal. I haven't seen her in enough different things to say she is the most talented star on Broadway.
#17re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:46pmShe's my favorite Mimi.
#18re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 5:48pmAbsolutely love her, she's such a sweetie and does a kick ass job as Mimi.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#19re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:09pmShe was one of the only things I liked about Rent. She was AMAAAZING! There were 2 people I would give standing ovations for when I saw Rent--Justin Johnston(?) and Karmine. Karmine BLEW me away!!
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:21pm
I never saw Karmine in the role of "Mimi" (I saw Daphne Rubin-Vega and Marcy Harriell -- both of whom were absolutely amazing) but I know that either Daphne, Marcy, or Karmine would have been wonderful in the film version, along with the rest of the OBC, if the powers that be had only decided to choose someone who is actually capable of singing and acting to play the role.
But unfortunately they didn't.
#21re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:26pm
Well, Daphne was pregnant and frankly too old to play Mimi in the film. Have no idea if Marcy was approached and I doubt seriously that Karmine was considered.
I assume you've seen the movie already to make such an absolute statement about Rosario's inability to perform the role? Feel free to tell us specifically what you didn't like about her performance.
#22re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:27pm
Honey - no matter how many times you say the same thing, the movie's still in the can, and your whining isn't going to fix anything. We get the point.
(love love LOVE Marcy Harriel, by the way.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#23re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:30pm
Go see "Verona," read the critiques on the message boards, or listen to the clips there and you'll know why instantly.
Her voice is weak and her acting abilities "can be fit onto a piece of confetti with room to spare" to paraphrase one quote.
#24re: Karmine Alers
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:31pmDon't worry, I plan to see Two Gents. I also plan to form my own opinions, when all evidence is in place, thank you.
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