Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#1
Posted: 3/7/13 at 10:43pm
DeLaria will be Vera Charles opposite McArdle's MAME at the Media Theatre in Pennsylvania, according to her Facebook page.
Certainly... interesting casting to say the least. Completely preposterous and inappropriate, in my opinion, but definitely interesting.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#2
Posted: 3/7/13 at 10:50pm...Wow.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#2
Posted: 3/7/13 at 10:50pmWell that's one production I'll make a point to avoid like the plague.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#3
Posted: 3/7/13 at 10:56pmIf I lived within driving distance I would so be going to that.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#4
Posted: 3/7/13 at 11:02pm
I think Delaria would make a great Mother Burnside or even Mr Babcock. She might even make a good Ito. Not even with the wildest imagination could she pretend to be the First Lady of the theatre.
As for Ms.Mccardle. She's a great singer but a comedienne she is not.
Best worst casting ever.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#5
Posted: 3/7/13 at 11:50pm
Are you sure this isn't a joke? I can't imagine any casting worse than this... one who can sing decently but can't act, and the other who... well, that describes them both.
PS to Ms DeLaria: Loud does NOT equal funny.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#7
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:05am
has the entire cast list been posted somewhere??
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#8
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:07amI'm looking forward to a slightly more effeminate post-Bea Arthur Vera.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#9
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:18am
This wasn't the same theater that let Joyce Dewitt stumble through play Rose in Gypsy was it?
If we learned anything from Lucille Ball's Maimed, it's that the character of Mame needs some warmth of which Andrea McCardle has zilch.
Seeing Lea DeLaria play Vera Charles might be interesting if you could imagine Tom Bosley playing the role.
Maybe they could talk Jerry Seinfeld into playing Beauregard, Katherine McPhee to play Gooch and Honey Boo Boo as Young Patrick.
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Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#10
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:22amThis has FAIL written all over it. Road trip!
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#11
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:26am
I was going to see this with McCardle. Now that DeLaria is involved, I will pass on this. Boy will that theatre be sorry to have to deal with the likes of DeLaria. Very dificult to work with. To know her is to know she gives lesbians and thespians a bad name.
Updated On: 3/8/13 at 12:26 AM
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#12
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:29amAre they really going to have Lea DeLaria sing "Bosom Buddy"?
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#13
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:30amI will never understand anyone finding anything appealing about a female Sam Kinison who does nothing but screams.
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Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#14
Posted: 3/8/13 at 10:59am
^Delaria was a fantastic Hildy in the Park; her larger than lifeness couldn't survive On the Town's move to Broadway (nothing else in or about that production did either).
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This may in fact be a disaster, but I also have to say:
if this were early 1966, a great many of us would be screaming that the tough, vulgar, butch, "ethnic" giantess Bea Arthur was COMPLETELY, PATHETICALLY MISCAST as the grand dame first lady of the American theater, and that the hard as nails, B-list Hollywood "character actress" Angela Lansbury, best at arch and bitter roles (she was good in Anyone Can Whistle, superb in The Manchurian Candidate, but Mame? - WTF?!), was not only COMPLETELY, PATHETICALLY MISCAST as the warm, madcap, classy, patrician, loving, eccentrically maternal Auntie Mame but would, furthermore, never sell a single ticket.
That is until those legendary performances began and history was made.
My point - and I do have one - is that truly great and highly successful casting sometimes pushes the envelope, is surprising, and that all too often what people on bww seem to demand is the safe, the predictable, the commercially prepackaged and the boring.
Updated On: 3/8/13 at 10:59 AM
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#15
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:12am
My point - and I do have one - is that truly great and highly successful casting sometimes pushes the envelope, is surprising, and that all too often what people on bww seem to demand is the safe, the predictable, the commercially prepackaged and the boring.
I love this post. Very well said and I wholeheartedly agree!
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#16
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:24amI completely agree. But when it comes to Delaria, the last thing she should be doing is musical theater. She might be very talented in other areas, but this one ain't for her.
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Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#17
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:28am
Agreed with henrikegerman.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#18
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:29am
I have seen her do her combo be bop jazz/comedy shows and they are great.
I've also seen McCardle be quite warm in shows.
But I guess the message in this thread is "Don't try anything risky; things that look good on paper always work out for the best!"
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#19
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:34am
I thought Delaria was one of the few bright spots in ON THE TOWN. I was leery of her casting, and found her incredibly effective. And yes, her be bop/jazz shows are terrific. Her Ballad of Sweeney Todd is possibly my favorite version of the song.
I've worked with both of these women, and they were both lovely. I wonder if they need an Ito?
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#20
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:37am
"But I guess the message in this thread is "Don't try anything risky; things that look good on paper always work out for the best!"
EXACTLY. lol
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#21
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:47amI think this needs Alec Mapa as Ito.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#22
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:51amThen I would soooo find a way to get there.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#23
Posted: 3/8/13 at 11:51amI'd meet you there.
Lea DeLaria to Co-Star with Andrea McCardle in MAME#24
Posted: 3/8/13 at 12:03pmFINE. I'll play Mother Burnside. My Agnes Gooch notes are a little shaky these days.
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