Laura Bell Bundy and the Note — Page 5

Damn...she is homely.

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I love people saying these other young ladies are as big a star as LBB. They raised the money with her attached, not Ms. Gulsvig or Ashford. The woman is a star no matter what some of the people here choose to say. And she'll be around for a long time, long after one note is forgotten.
I guarantee you the producers didn't get involved just because Bell Bundy was going to play Elle. The draw to this show is primarily the title. The name Laura Bell Bundy is not going to putt butts in seats because no one outside The Palace Theater knows who the hell she is.

As long as shows like HAIRSPRAY, WICKED, and LEGALLY BLONDE are produced (and Telsey keeps casting them), she'll have a job. I think that after that, she's history.

Well if she is such a big star, shouldn't she have the gravitas to be able to ask for a new melody line?
Or shouldn't the creative team want to protect their star enough to not let her look bad?
This makes no sense to me. Things are transposed, changed, and adapted all the time. This isn't summer stock where the music director doesn't have time to transpose a song.

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This is coming from someone with no music background whatsoever - but is that a weird last note? I'm asking this seriously because even on the cast recording, it still just sounds like a weird final note (assuming it's right on the recording). I always thought that from the first time I heard it, before people started talking about how she had a hard time hitting it during the show.

Or her future ones. If she is as much fun as she appears and is as rapturously greeted as she appears, there must be producers all over th stem trying to figure out shows to do with her. I predict her star will continue to blaze brightly.

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a freakin' men

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If she played a little less tonsil hockey with her leading man, perhaps she'd be able to hit the note.

I know it's a totally different situation, but Keisha Lewis-Evans absolutely blew me away on Thursday when I saw The Drowsy Chaperone. She's the one who hits that insanely high note in the very last bit when the power comes back on ~ coming in virtually cold after her big number which is done after waiting around the entire show. I was right in front of her on Thursday and girl can SING! She should have an album.

Still, even though she has only been on stage for a tiny time, I couldn't help but flash for a moment to the thought that she can hit a note like that virtually cold after sitting around for an hour or more after her little bit in the first act. As opposed to a fully warmed up actor attempting a lower note...

Like I said, I know it's different situations, but I'd think coming in cold like that is pretty hard just in another way.

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What did I ever do to you? There was nothing squeeish in that. I was simply stating an observation.

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I highly doubt I am the only person who has a different tone in posts and in real life. And nope...not angry. Nothing like it. Sorry you interpret things that way.

(And I don't even know what AMDA is, so... Nope on that one too.)

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I thought both existed, I could be wrong.

If you wanna see a fierce rendition of "So Much Better" get thee to youtube ASAP and see Becky Gulsvig.