Marin Mazzie
Marin Mazzie
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#1Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 2:30pmCan Anyone tell me how her find your grail and divas lament is? And are there any pictures of her as the lady of the lake?
#2re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 3:21pmI saw her two weekends ago and thought she was excellent. I love her voice and I think she is gorgeous. Diva's Lament was better than Find Your Grail, IMO. Also, going into the show, I was thinking that Mazzie would be the perfect replacement and that she would be as good as Sara was in the role...unfortunately, I was wrong. No one can touch Sara in this role, IMO, but Mazzie is certainly a more appropriate replacement than Kennedy was.
#3re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 3:25pmI saw this last week specifically to see Marin. Although she looked great and was very good vocally, I just felt that she was "trying" too hard in some ways. I really didn't care for the show at all. I just can't imagine how the understudies are in this role.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
#4re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 4:01pmI saw her first performance (Halloween evening) and she was absolutely wonderful. She danced and sang beautifully and made it look completely effortless. I didn't feel she was pushing her comedy at all; she seemed naturally funny. She's definitely proven herself a gifted comedienne in the past with KISS ME KATE, KISMET et al and she's a fine replacement here.
"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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#5re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 4:37pm
I saw her last week too. She was very good (I never saw Sarah) but I just think the part itself is very forced. Marin was great in Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate both parts were very demanding and in Kate, especially, she had high voice and comedy demands which in my opinion, she handled beautifully.
The Lady of the Lake is really not necessary after "Find your Grail" so her appearance in the production number as well as the "Diva's lament" just feel very forced. This is clearly a case of "we have a great singer girl, now what do we do with her?". I think this part was great for someone who is breaking into the Broadway leading/featured actress category, but seems way too smallish for an established leading lady like Mazzie.
The meat is always leaner on somebody else's dinner plate!
#6re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 4:39pm
I honestly had no intention of ever going back to Spamalot after the orginal cast departed, however, I am DYING to see Marin. I thought it was an awkward choice for the role, but even if people said she was the most god awful thing they had ever seen - I would still buy a full price ticket to see her.
Does anyone know how long she's contracted for? There is so much to see right now that it's not a priority, but I certainly don't want to miss her!
#7re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 4:50pmKate, no need to pay full price, I got my ticket at tkts for 35% off.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
#8re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 11/29/06 at 4:51pmahh, good to know. i rocked the standing room tickets for a while when the OBC was still around, and i thought those were well worth the money too!
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Understudy Joined: 6/20/06
#9re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 12/15/06 at 11:13pmI've never seen her in Spamalot but I just saw her in a cabaret with her husband and they were both really really good
#10re: Marin Mazzie
Posted: 12/16/06 at 9:38amWhen does she leave Spamalot?
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
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