Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

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Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:21am

And in a revival of Hello, Dolly!

I hate the show (I can only stand the movie because of Streisand's amazing, if inappropriate, vocals and the charming Michael Crawford), however, I would definitely see a well designed, tight production if Kazan were in the lead. She definitely has the spunk and charm required for the role and is overqualified vocally for the role, but that doesn't matter. Sure, she's 67, but she doesn't nearly look it. Having seen her at 110 in the Shade on Wednesday, I can tell you she's looking radiant and could totally pass for 48.

We need this wonderful woman back on the Great White Way and as one of the most beloved female characters in musical theatre.

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re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:26am

Kazan is old enough to be Dolly Levi's Grandmother.

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re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:29am

It would be great to see Lainie Kazan on Broadway, but if she came back in DOLLY, Tovah Feldshuh would kill her. It would not be pretty.

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re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:37am

Foster- no matter what age she is, she looks about 15 years younger. And I could care less about Feldshuh. Kazan can handle her in a fist fight any day of the week. I stand by my statement.

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re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:39am

Don't underestimate my Tovah. She's small, but lethal. Like a raptor.

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:39am

All Kazan has to do is sit on her and the game is over.

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re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:40am

Well, when you spend that many years churning out one stereotype-inducing crappy movie after another, you make enough money so that you can get your face pulled back enough times that you don't have to worry about looking your age.

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:40am

Wanna bet, Wicked? Tovah is STRONG, with very sharp teeth.

Updated On: 6/16/07 at 10:40 AM

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:42am

D2-don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want to be in a dark alley alone with either. Talk about fierce women.

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#10

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:44am

I know. What a bitchfight those two could have. Maybe THEY should do LEGENDS?

#11

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:44am

Oops, double post.

Updated On: 6/16/07 at 10:44 AM

#12

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:50am

Totally.

Foster- Is it lonely atop of that pedestal you seem to think you're on?

"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

#13

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:55am

It's actually quite fun. There's a bunch of us up here. We's havin' us a little ol' party.

#14

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 11:05am

Pass me one of those Martinis, will you, Foster? Thanks!

#15

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 11:06am

"There's a bunch of us up here"

The people in your head don't count as actual people. Just ask Anne Heche.

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#16

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 11:15am

Carol Channing did DOLLY well into her 70's and then, in a case of life imitating art, at age 82, the Widow Lowe 'rejoined the human race' and married her high-school sweetheart.

IMHO, Lainie would have a harder time being believable as an Irish woman ('Dolly Levi, born Gallagher') than she would as a middle-aged widow. Maybe with a red wig...

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#17

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 11:20am

Tovah nailed it last year at Papermill. Totally, believably Irish from beginning to end. She was fabulous.

#18

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 11:22am

Only in a broadwayworld forum can a conversation change from Lainie Kazan needing to come back to Broadway to her getting into a fistfight with Tovah Feldshuh

Anyways, I agree. I really really wanted her to be Ursula in the Little Mermaid, but they casted Sherie who'se just as amazing.

#19

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 12:28pm

Did Channing play it as Irish? Forgive me, but in the video I saw of her on tour she played it VERY Jewish. I remember Channing hating Streisand for playing it very Jewish, but from the video I saw of her in the '80's (or maybe early '90's) she pretty much did it the same way as Barbra except A LOT slower.

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#20

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 1:01pm

I saw the Channing Dolly in versions 2.0 and 3.0 (or maybe 5.0). The mid-70s and the mi-90s -- that's decades, not her age. Her performance was many things, but I've never heard it described as "VERY Jewish." Though she was clearly from NY, the character's ethnicity was indeterminate. I always remember John Simon's line about her Dolly: "Of all the *monstre sacre*, hers is the most giving..."

To bring us back to Ms. Kazan ...The only famous "Jewish" Dolly is the woman she understudied, Streisand. Imagine what a performance she could give of the role today, by the way. At 65, she'd read 5o on stage and very likely knock our socks off.

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#21

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 1:04pm

Why not get Lainie into WICKED as Morrible or even get her to Birdland or Joe's Pub for a few evenings with Lainie. I think she is divine.

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#22

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 1:09pm

Am I insane to think Kazan would be a fabulous Mama Rose?

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#23

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 1:11pm

Lainie can do anything.

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#24

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 2:36pm

Lainie Kazan on the forbideen site singing Porgy and the Trolley song!

incredible.

#25

re: Lainie Kazan should come back to Broadway

Posted: 6/16/07 at 2:56pm

It cracks me up that Lainie played Bette Milder's mother in Beaches when they are more like sisters. hahahaha

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