#76
Posted: 5/26/12 at 8:49am
"An earlier post wrote that he thought Katie Finneran was too young for the part -- she is 42, Dorothy Loudon was 44 when the original production opened."
But Loudon looked matronly. Finneran looks like a retired flight attendant.
I have no doubt she has the comic chops to pull off the role, but unless they work magic with makeup and costumes, everyone is going to be thinking "She's pretty enough to get a husband, why is she singing the lyrics in Little Girls "I'll admit, no man has bit"?"
What the role needs is what in the old days was called an "old broad", a woman who is a bit coarse and loud, an Elaine Stritch circa 1970s.
My fear of Finneran is that she will come across as a comic parody of Mary-Louise Parker in Angels in America.
But Loudon looked matronly. Finneran looks like a retired flight attendant.
I have no doubt she has the comic chops to pull off the role, but unless they work magic with makeup and costumes, everyone is going to be thinking "She's pretty enough to get a husband, why is she singing the lyrics in Little Girls "I'll admit, no man has bit"?"
What the role needs is what in the old days was called an "old broad", a woman who is a bit coarse and loud, an Elaine Stritch circa 1970s.
My fear of Finneran is that she will come across as a comic parody of Mary-Louise Parker in Angels in America.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
