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#2

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/22/10 at 7:24pm

Not buying her as a Jewish matriarch.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#4

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/22/10 at 7:33pm

And Allison Fraiser was so Jewish?

I could see Benanti doing it in a few years.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#5

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/22/10 at 7:38pm

i could definitely see it. Trina is the mother of a young boy who recognizes she has very little control in the world or in her family. She's the anti-matriarch.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

Updated On: 12/22/10 at 07:38 PM

#7

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/22/10 at 7:51pm

One of my top-five favorites. The Broadway production was perfection.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#8

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/22/10 at 9:31pm

Leslie Kritzer would be a stellar Trina.
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.
#9

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/22/10 at 9:42pm

Just a heads up - it's actually called The MARVIN Trilogy.

I adore Laura and know this trilogy like the back of my hand. While Laura would be a hoot and a half as Cordelia, I agree with somethingwicked's suggestion of Kritzer. Stellar idea, indeed.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#11

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/22/10 at 10:34pm

I'd also love to see a production of In Trousers, though I doubt that's likely any time soon. Even with Finn's revisions, it's still kind of a mess. Some damn good songs though. "Love Me For What I Am" is on par with any of the rest of his later stuff.

I like Leslie Kritzer a great deal, but for some reason I cannot see her as Trina. I don't know why.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#13

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 9:24am

Pal Joey has spoken. I guess I have to go stand in a corner now until the first of the year.

Benanti is not a belter, hard as she's tried in the past. Trina is a role for a belter. I don't want to hear someone attacking "Holding to the Groud" in head voice. Kritzer is an inspired choice.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#14

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 11:21am

Your comment was NOT about belting--it was about "Jewishness"( or your misconception of it) and "matriarchy."

Nothing about belting.

Your exact words:

Not buying her as a Jewish matriarch.
#16

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 11:26am

RobbieJ, I'm not an Idina fan but I actually agree with you. She'd need to tone down the pop nature of her voice a bit, though...
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#17

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 11:31am

I'd also love to see a production of In Trousers, though I doubt that's likely any time soon. Even with Finn's revisions, it's still kind of a mess. Some damn good songs though. "Love Me For What I Am" is on par with any of the rest of his later stuff.

I agree with you 100% on that, Kad.
I also love Set Those Sails, I Am Wearing A Hat, High School Ladies At 5 O'clock, and especially Breakfast Over Sugar

....but the world goes 'round

Updated On: 12/23/10 at 11:31 AM

#18

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 12:12pm

Bill Finn really, really loved working with both Sherie Rene Scott and Idina Menzel when they were involved with LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. On completely different sides of the spectrum, I think they could both be terrific as Trina. Scott's deadpan neurosis is particularly well suited to the role. I can only imagine what she'd do with a number like "I'm Breaking Down."

Come to think of it, the next Sheryl in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, Jennifer Laura Thompson, would also be well-cast in FALSETTOS.
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: 12/23/10 at 12:12 PM

#19

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 2:51pm

"I agree with you 100% on that, Kad.
I also love Set Those Sails, I Am Wearing A Hat, High School Ladies At 5 O'clock, and especially Breakfast Over Sugar"

Yes! Set Those Sails is really the only song from In Trousers that gets done in the various Finn revues/cabarets (absolutely disappointed that Make Me A Song only contained Set Those Sails, and part of a duet that didn't quite work). It's a shame, because there are real gems in the score. I also love Your Lips and Me, although it has since been cut.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#20

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 3:00pm

RobbieJ - I agree with you completely. Menzel would actually be my first choice as Trina. I can see her performing the hell out of Trina's Song, Holding to the Ground and I'm Breaking Down. But the real key is casting the right male actors and the chemistry with the main quartet. When it's right, Making a Home and I Never Wanted to Love You can be some of the most emotionally moving material ever created in musical theatre.

Ugh...I'm getting all verklempt thinking about the show. It always turns me into a blubbering moron.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#21

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 3:04pm

I think it'd be much harder to find the right men than the right women, if we're culling from the well-known Broadway musical theatre actors.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#23

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 3:31pm

Oh please, if I had my wish, Norm Lewis would be whizzing on my face and chest.

I think Jonathan Groff would make a great Whizzer, as well.
#24

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 3:31pm

I agree. The male roles are much tougher to cast. That being said, there are certainly a wealth of great possibilities for them.

If it were up to me, I'd cast Raúl Esparza as Marvin (although the role may hit a little close to home for him,) Benjamin Walker as Whizzer, and Robert Petkoff as Mendel. David Bologna of BILLY ELLIOT fame could be a great Jason.

Here's hoping the show gets the revival it is so rightfully due.
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: 12/23/10 at 03:31 PM

#25

Laura Benanti as Trina in the Falsettos trilogy

Posted: 12/23/10 at 3:52pm

Pal Joey, I know what I wrote, so no need to remind me. And I stand by my comment(s)--all of them. Thanks.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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