Liza Minnelli's Roxie Hart & Verdon&Reinking's Too — Page 2

But you see, Sondheimfreak... that's Ann's STYLE. It FIT the Roxie roll, and it just worked. If she were singing something more melodic, than yes, I would agree that the "croaking" would not be appropriate.

I also agree that Ann went a little too "Gwen Verdon"-like with her interpretation of this Roxie role revival, but I absolutely love it anyway.

I would have LOVED to have seen her slink across the stage ala Fosse style. That is what she is best at! ( :

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THANK YOU, KRISTIE-K!! ( :

You ROCK!

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Sorry. You're posts to explain her did no good. My opinion stays. She is very talented, but I don't like her in "Chicago."

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Ann Reinking is a great dancer. She's a great actress. She can sing really well. But I don't like what she does with "Chicago." I prefer it to be sung like in the film, than "croaked", Teacheroftheatre's word not mine, like she does. She's a very talented person and this is the last post I'm going to make about her and Chicago.

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Just to clarify, my whole post wasn't directed at you, sondheimfreak -- just the first line. I was just chiming in on the topic since I had yet to do so

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Getting back to the dance style. I haven't seen Melanie (I live in Australia now) but I did see Liza and Verdon and Ann's Roxie's (the revival version) didn't notice any changes with the choreography between Liza and Verdon, I think she did most of it because I don't remember Verdon dancing as much in Chicago as she did in other productions or as much as Chita did in the show.

Chita's role required more dancing than Verdon's. I know Liza did the cartwheel so I assume she did the rest. As for Ann I didn't like her in the revival. She is such a great dancer, but was trying to imitate Gwen and did a poor job of it. I don't know what happened to her voice, sounded like she smoked a lot. She sounded so sexy in All That Jazz and other productions.

Updated On: 8/30/03 at 03:24 AM