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Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
#25Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 3:53pm
I love CZJ.
I so wish she would come back to Broadway.
I also love CZJ and she would be killer in this but...Kander wants La Audra...or is it La McDonald? So I guess that's that?
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#26Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 3:53pmI don't think Cumming is right for this at all. This all just sounds like they needed to hear the show and why not have these fabulous names do the reading?
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#27Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 3:53pm
"but the first thing this show needs is a major book overhaul."
That made me laugh out loud.
Wasn't there a fuss that you were/are a teenager? If so how are you so familiar with the book from this musical?
That being said I have great memories seeing both Chita Rivera and Vanessa Williams. I don't recall if any of the dancing was changed from one to the other but not sure if Willams was considered a dancer?
Would love to see this show again.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
Updated On: 1/13/15 at 03:53 PM
#28Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 3:55pm
Carlos,
leave it to Audra she would redefine the role and her put her own stamp on it...hopefully, we'll see her first in Night Mother during the 2015-2016 season followed by Kiss in the 2016-2017 all sounds exciting but nothing is definite for a Broadway run.
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#29Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 3:57pm
Oh don't get me wrong. I love Audra to Reese's Pieces...it just caught me off guard but I'm sure with the masters at hand in charge of the re-tooling and in Audra's hands it could possibly work.
#30Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 3:59pm
Oh I'm excited about Audra.
I love the show and I love Audra.
I was just commenting on CZJ because someone mentioned earlier they thought the consensus was that she ruined Night Music.
I thought she was great in ALNM.
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 1/13/15 at 03:59 PM
#31Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:01pm
I, too, also thought CZJ was wonderful in NIGHT MUSIC and would be a sensational Aurora.
I'd rather see Audra's Caroline at this point.
#32Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:01pmI thought CZJ was great in Night Music, too- and is unfairly maligned for a bad Tony performance.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#33Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:02pmI didn't think she did either, but do you recall all of the drama here on BWW in regards to her and her performance. They ripped her every chance they got. That's really what I was referring to.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#34Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:02pm
"That being said I have great memories seeing both Chita Rivera and Vanessa Williams."
IMO, Vanessa wasn't that great. She didn't have the mystery that Chita had and her dancing wasn't up to the role.
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.
#35Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:09pm
"I didn't think she did either, but do you recall all of the drama here on BWW in regards to her and her performance. They ripped her every chance they got. That's really what I was referring to."
After the Tony performance maybe. I don't really recall it being TOO negative before then (not everyone was a fan).
Anyway, those two male leads are PERFECT for this. I personally would prefer CZJ because the score isn't going to be very fun without a bit of belting. This is a role CZJ was born to play!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#36Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:15pm
I've read the script from Samuel French, seen a regional production, and have read El beso de la mujer araña, which is far superior to the script of the show. Just my thoughts.
Updated On: 1/13/15 at 04:15 PM
#37Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:16pmumm Fantod, you dropped a 'La'...I think I just stepped on it.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#38Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:18pmYou have been stepping on a lot today.
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
#39Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:19pm
You can say that again...toes, emotions...
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#41Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:31pmIf you're referring to your personality, then yes FanTOAD, that would be correct.
broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#42Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:32pmI'm surprised at lot of you for doubting Audra. She is a beautiful woman who has sex appeal. She could do the role. I admit when I read the article about this I sort of scratched my head but I think it could work.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#43Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:34pmAw, it's so nice that you have a nickname for me. I would come up with one for you, but your unchanged username creates enough disgust that I don't need to.
#44Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:37pm
I have a real nickname for you but I wont share it in polite company. And if you REALLY want to insult me you're going to have to do A LOT better than that sweetie. I mean really? That's the best you got for me?
Go and sit in your corner or better yet, familiarize yourself with what a blacklist is so you won't wind up looking moronic in the next thread you decide to "contribute" to.
Or better yet, create one of your useless, pointless LIST THREADS. That's what you're good at...
Aaaaaaaaand I'm done with you!
Updated On: 1/13/15 at 04:37 PM
#45Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:39pm
Ugh. Hope this doesn't go further than the workshop. Composers - however talented they may be - aren't always the best at selecting the creative teams/casting. I mean, look at Sondheim's appreciation for those dreadful John Doyle revivals. I think it's sad that that we'd get a Kiss with much less dancing. It's not a meaty "book" role. It's primarily a song & dance role. And Audra is obviously phenomenally talented, but she's hardly silver screen star glamorous. Not to mention how shrill her voice can get when "belting" non operatic stuff.
Oh, and, FWIW, I loathed CZJ in Night Music, but think she'd be sensational in KISS.
#46Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:46pmIt's a great show. I don't know why Audra would want to do it. That role is pretty thankless if you ask me. She just pops out every once in a while and sings and leaves... and she does need to exude sex. Which is not Audra. I thought Chita was too old for the part even back then. It needs a really sexy Latina lady. Sophia Vergara would be great. I can see Alan Cumming in the role.
#47Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:53pmI've got news for you about Vergara. As much as I love her the only way she can hold any notes is if she were holding sheet music. She can't sing...
#48Kiss of the Spider Woman with Audra?
Posted: 1/13/15 at 4:54pm
curtainsup
Did you see Chita in her Tony winning performance?
Age breakdown is 40-50's she was in her late 50's and surely commanded the stage with sex appeal and dancing perfection!
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
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Updated On: 1/13/15 at 04:54 PM
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