Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summer!- Page 11
Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summer!
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#250Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:46am
Marni Nixon would be great - but would it be better to get a legitimate opera star in the role?
Maybe one of the Knights who say Ni can play Solange.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#251Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:47amRon Raines' facebook said this morning that they are still negotiating and nothing is final yet. So we'll see...
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#252Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:53am
Theodore Whitman- Must be an excellent partner dancer.
Not in this production.
These could be understudy auditions also, they will need more standbys in NYC than DC.
Too bad if Elias is not transferring, she was a stand-out.
But we have great Opera Singers here too.
I am most interested in a new Hattie.
#253Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:03pm
Marni Nixon has already played Heidi. She replaced Joan Roberts in the Roundabout revival back in 2001.
Lenora Nemetz would be a knockout Hattie.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 6/21/11 at 12:03 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#254Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:10pm
Lenora Nemetz would be a knockout Hattie.
I am in so much agreement with this statement.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#255Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:15pm
Terrence Currier was (clearly) not a dancer, so I'm sure they're trying to get a good old guy who can dance - or at least keep up with the fabulous Susan Watson.
One would also assume they try to get a star like Lavin for the role, to help bring in more ppl.
Also - I'm assuming they'll re-do their billing with contracts. (ie - so Elaine Paige isn't the only one right under the title.)
Updated On: 6/21/11 at 12:15 PM
#256Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:03pm
Bad news for some of you. According to Playbill, rehearsals won't begin until August 7. I figured previews would start in or closer to September. I have no idea why Raines was spreading around the July 31 date, I knew it didn't seem right.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/152021-Kennedy-Center-Follies-Recasting-a-Few-Roles-Prior-to-Broadway
Updated On: 6/21/11 at 01:03 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#257Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:10pm
Terrence Currier was (clearly) not a dancer, so I'm sure they're trying to get a good old guy who can dance - or at least keep up with the fabulous Susan Watson
Did Susan Watson actually dance in this? I don't remember that.
#258Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:17pm
"...so I'm sure they're trying to get a good old guy who can dance..."
What's Dick Van Dyke up to these days?
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#259Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:20pm
I adore Susan Watson and enjoyed meeting her in DC, but she was never a dancer herself. I can't think of one show in which she did. The staging of RAIN ON THE ROOF was minimal, to say the least.
#260Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:22pmToo bad Joel Grey is busy.
#261Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:23pmPoor Regine, I'm glad she invented the discotheque but she just wasn't up to snuff in the show.
http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com
#261Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:23pmPoor Regine, I'm glad she invented the discotheque but she just wasn't up to snuff in the show.
http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com
#263Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:26pm
What's Dick Van Dyke up to these days?
I can't see him taking a cameo role with about two lines and a fifty second interlude/song.
#264Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:28pm
Susan Watson most definitely WAS a dancer early in her career - she got her start as one of the dancing Jet girls in the London West Side Story and then became the first Laurey in a major production of OKLAHOMA! to also dance the dream ballet (Lincoln Center revival in the 60s).
That said, unlike the Roundabout script which eliminated Vincent and Vanessa but gave the Whitmans the bolero number, that dance is now completely cut. So if they are going to keep things 'as they were' in DC -- there isn't a need to replace Terrence Currier with a dancer.
That said, I'd love to see Harvey Evans take on the part for New York.
I also imagine Chita is being seriously considered for one of the female roles being recast for Broadway.
#265Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:28pmI sure hope the NYC producers invest in some more supportive brassieres for those women. Some of us got more of a show in Who's That Woman than we paid for.
http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com
#266Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:31pm
I also imagine Chita is being seriously considered for one of the female roles being recast for Broadway.
I've been saying for ages now, just cast Chita as Solange. Her faux french accent and all. Hopefully the "It's magic by Solange" line will return. It was in Encores! but cut at the Kennedy Center.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#267Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:33pmI kind of got the impression that whole exchange was cut because Regine couldn't get it out.
#268Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:37pmMe too! It seemed like they wanted to give Regine as little as possible.
#269Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:52pmI've never seen a mess like Régine in a professional production before. It was entertaining, I suppose, but in a really bad way. Even Betty Buckley's Drood understudy (not Judy Kuhn), who had to be pushed around the stage because she didn't know the choreography, wasn't so amazingly awful.
#270Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:58pm
"I sure hope the NYC producers invest in some more supportive brassieres for those women. Some of us got more of a show in Who's That Woman than we paid for."
Can this apply to everyone except Bernadette? Some of us (ie ME) enjoyed that particular show. kthxbye!
"I chose and my world was shaken--so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on"
moljul
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/03
#271Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:59pm
LOL My goodness. I must have missed an awful lot on the right side of the theater because I don't remember any extra show! 
#272Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 2:03pmWait, which exchange? There is an exchange between her and Weissman, she says something at some point about "je suis magnifique--as always" he asks her what her secret is; she sort of pulls back her face to imply a facelift and says "magique!" That exchange was definitely in the DC version...
"I chose and my world was shaken--so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on"
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#273Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 2:04pm
I forgot about Watson's early dancing roots, you are correct. I was just thinking about Birdie and on.
#274Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/21/11 at 2:07pm
Who knew? Régine Zylberberg was born in Belgium to Polish-Jewish parents. She started life hiding from the Nazis in occupied wartime France and later invented the format for the modern-day "discothèque" (French for Nightclubs). Aside of inventing and managing "discothèques", she taught a former king of England to do the twist, presided over a multi-million dollar international nightclub empire and had a hit single with the French version of Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive." She also played in a few movies.
In June 2011, she appeared as Solange in Follies at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
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