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Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summer!
#150Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 8:33am
I hope they would get rid of Regine and perhaps hire Liliane Montevecchi...I saw her recently and the woman still has it! She can light up a stage!
I would like to see Rita Moreno as Carlotta.
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#151Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 10:14amJoyce DeWitt as Hattie!
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broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#152Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 10:21amYou lucky people. I'm in NYC next month and most likely not again until January. I can only hope it runs until at least the second or third weekend in January.
#153Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 10:43am
Reginald and Tresilian and I were talking before this New York move was announced and we think that the time has come for Carlotta to be played by Lorna Luft:
She's gotten through Reno and Beverley Hills and a whole lot of "Sorry, I thought you were whoozis" and she's still here.
Here she is, in top form, singing "The Music That Makes Me Dance":
http://youtu.be/LWjzKdB4woc
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#154Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 10:46amOk, for all you Stritch lovers. I understand that you want Stritch to have a showstopping number, but she in no way can be believed as Carlotta. The audience really needs to believe that at some point in her life, Carlotta was sexy enough to entice the guys who were waiting at the stage door. Yes she possibly could play Hattie, but there really are some actresses that are a bit more age appropriate.
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.
#155Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 10:48amPJ, I couldn't agree more. I think Lorna has actually earned the right to sing that song--and I think she'd sing the f*** out of it.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#156Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 10:52am
Who better to play Carlotta then Tina Turner? It's like the song was written about her life. And that throaty tough voice that Tina has would really bring out a roughness that the song has always been missing.
I'm starting my "Tina Turner For Carlotta" Facebook page right now.
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.
#157Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 11:05am
'Ok, for all you Stritch lovers. I understand that you want Stritch to have a showstopping number, but she in no way can be believed as Carlotta. The audience really needs to believe that at some point in her life, Carlotta was sexy enough to entice the guys who were waiting at the stage door. Yes she possibly could play Hattie, but there really are some actresses that are a bit more age appropriate.'
I very much agree. She's totally wrong for Carlotta for the very same reasons why Patti LuPone would be totally miscast (plus the age issue). Stritch could obviously still play Hattie if given a chance.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#158Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 11:38amStritch played Hattie 25 years ago in the concert version and all she did was bitch about how Carol Burnett hadn't lived enough to sing "I'm Still Here".
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.
#159Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 11:46am
I still want to see Leslie Ann Warren as Carlotta. And Shirley MacLaine as Hattie.
I'd also like a pony, a million dollars, and a trip to the international space station.
#160Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 11:51amPJ--I love your casting ideas of Alice Playten and Lorna Luft.
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#161Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 11:52am
'I still want to see Leslie Ann Warren as Carlotta.'
That would be awesome!... I meant fabulous!
#162Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 12:28pm
Playten would really be ideal.
And as long as we're mentioning famous offspring, how about Lucy Arnaz as Carlotta. Or the too-old but incredibly well preserved Michelle Lee?
#163Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 1:52pmI don't think Michele Lee is that old or too old for Carlotta. She's only 68 years old, when Bernadette Peters and Elaine Paige are both 63.
#164Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 1:54pmYeah, but Bernadette actually passes for 49 in this production as her character states in the finale.
#165Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 1:59pmWhen is Angela doing THE BEST MAN?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#166Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:00pm
Who better to play Carlotta then Tina Turner? It's like the song was written about her life.
Who is this Tina Turner you speak of? Certainly you're not talking about the singer?
#167Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:04pmMost people don't know that Buddy and Sally were originally written as vehicles for Ike & Tina.
#168Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:07pm
Chita Rivera for Carlotta! Still sings up a storm every Atlantis cruise. She's electric onstage.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#169Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:09pmAre people convinced Elaine Paige isn't transferring?
#170Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:11pmSupposedly they start January, 2012. At least that what Lansbury said in the interview.
#171Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:23pm
Stritch has no bigger fan than me on this board, or anywhere else, but there is no place for her in this production, or any other. Given her struggles in Night Music and at the White House, she can longer be counted on.
That said, in the context of the show, Carlotta should not be played by an eightysomething actress. It's one thing for someone like Stritch to put her stamp on the song in a concert setting, but in the show Carlotta is a woman of a certain age, not an octagenarian. In context, it's not so much about survival as much as it's about not being forgotten because you're no longer a starlet.
Having said all that, PJ's suggestion of Lorna Luft is inspired.
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Updated On: 6/16/11 at 02:23 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#172Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:39pm
Stritch has no bigger fan than I on this board, or anywhere else, but there is no place for her in this production, or any other.
Amen.
Per the script, Carlotta is essentially the same age as Phyllis and Sally. I guess there's a bit of wiggle room there, but she's in the mirror number (at least in most productions), so it's weird to consider a Carlotta older than even Stella Deems.
Part of the problem, though, is that almost no major production of this show ever casts people who are age appropriate to their roles (Encores came pretty close, although I still wake up shrieking when I think about Christine Baranski's Carlotta) If you've got a 64 year old woman playing a 49 year old woman, what's so weird about a 70 year old Carlotta?
Either I see people's ages a lot of differently than others or people on this thread do. Bernadette looks 49? Angela Lansbury looks like she's in her sixties? Really? I think both of the women look great, but I don't think either of them is looking 15-20 years younger than they really are.
Updated On: 6/16/11 at 02:39 PM
#173Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:41pmI would love to see John Mcmartin in this production.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#174Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summe
Posted: 6/16/11 at 2:43pmAs Young Ben!
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