LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

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LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/9/07 at 9:18pm

They look fantastic together and as their real life counterparts.

LOVEMUSIK is the show I have been most excited for this year. May is too far away.

Nice to also get some more information on this show:

Culled from the letters of Threepenny Opera composer Kurt Weill and his longtime muse, Lotte Lenya, LoveMusik stars Tony winner Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy in a new biographical musical directed by Harold Prince.

Prince and Uhry employ such Weill classics as “September Song” and “Lost in the Stars” to illuminate the love affair between the young Jewish composer who escaped Nazi Germany for Broadway—and redefined it along the way—and the ambitious Austrian chanteuse, reared as a Catholic, who followed him here to become one of musical theater's grittiest female icons.

http://www.broadway.com/gen/general.aspx?ci=544909

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/9/07 at 9:19pm

One more reason why I wish I could see this...

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Posted: 3/9/07 at 9:36pm

The real Lenya:

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/9/07 at 9:45pm

She does look astonishing and a lot like the real Lenya. I hope she gets to sing "Surabaya Johnny."

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:45pm

They forgot to airbrush Michael's face out.

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Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:49pm

Perfect make-up job, kudos.

Stupid comment Revolutionary.

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Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:53pm

Got my tickets. Can't wait.

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:56pm

Lucky, miss pennywise.

I have been dropping hints to get tickets for this. I must be too subtle. Guess I'll have to work more so I can pay my way. Unless they do rush!

I would also like to point out that Weill had hair around the back of his head.

Updated On: 3/10/07 at 11:56 PM

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:58pm

I heard they are doing $30 day-of student rush, BSO.

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:58pm

We're going on May 13, BSo. Rush that day!

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Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:59pm

Oh, that is excellent! Thanks, AC.

I will be around that day - the 13th!

Post reviews!

Updated On: 3/10/07 at 11:59 PM

#12

re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/10/07 at 12:02am

*shrugs*

Well, they did...He's a hot piece of ass but he does have pretty horrible skin and in every professionally shot picture I've ever seen of him his face is airbrushed so it's completely smooth.

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Posted: 3/10/07 at 12:28am

Well, they are probably going for a more "escaped from nazi Germany" realistic look.

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Posted: 3/10/07 at 12:54am

Weill is supposed to be older then Lenya. Airbrushing takes years off, which normally is fine. I'm shocked that for once he looks his age. Oh well, he's still sexy.

Can't wait until April 29th!

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Updated On: 3/10/07 at 12:54 AM

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Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:06pm

I have a crush on Donna Murphy - she's all about sexy. She looked fiece in Follies. How hot was she in that red dress!?!

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Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:12pm

im sure hes photoshopped too... i mean that 'pattern' that comes off like rough skin & hard light seems to also be on his lower lip... which seems odd?

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Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:15pm

Actually, Weill is 2 years younger than Lenya...but I do think Weill suffered from some skin issues which might explain why Cerveris looks the way he does.

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Updated On: 3/10/07 at 06:15 PM

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Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:17pm

I got my tickets for April. wooo.

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Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:26pm

Thanks Ruth, apparently I need to do a bit more reading before April:)

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:28pm

Well, revolutionary, Clive Owen is pretty craggy, but it doesn't keep him from being among the most attractive men in the business.

And your avatar proves it!

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:33pm

Donald Spoto's biography of Lenya is wonderful. I actually enjoyed it more than I enjoyed Speak Low.

Just got my tix for April!

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re: LoveMusik: Donna Murphy makes a smokin' Lenja

Posted: 3/11/07 at 12:09am

Did I say that Michael's super bumpy non exfoliated cratered face kept him from being hot or that it kept it from working? No, I didn't. What I did say was just an observation, this thread being more or less a thread about a LoveMusik poster...

Yeah, and Clive's face is rough. I'll be the first to talk about that and the irony of the fact that he's a Lancome skincare spokesmodel... so nothing new there. But what does that have to do with this particular topic? Um, nothing.

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Posted: 3/11/07 at 12:55am

i'm jealous of all of you.

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Posted: 3/11/07 at 10:05am

Let's not argue. Let's just discuss how excited we are for a show that we know will have an amazing score, if nothing else, sung by an amazing cast...

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Posted: 3/11/07 at 5:09pm

Well, that publicity shot certainly piqued the interest of this theatregoer. I am just kicking myself that I will not be able to get there to see Cerveris and Murphy together.

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