Maureen Moore in Grey Gardens this afternoon — Page 2

I'd like to be known as Hadassah, please.

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I still want to see Victoria Clark do it.

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I personally think that the show will close with Ebersole, but I would LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE to see Victoria Clark play Edie. The problem is, would she be a replacement? Would she go on tour?

Probably not... but a girl can dream

To be more on topic - I'm entirely disgusted by the behavior of that group. Get over it! See the damned understudy, and take the show as is! You're not seeing a monkey, you're seeing a wonderful HUMAN perfomer!

Poor Ms. Moore..

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I've never seen Ms. Ebersole, but I saw Maureen Moore when I went to New York in April, and she was fabulous. She also looks ASTONISHINGLY similar to Edie in act two.
Real pity about the behavior of those folks. Hanging an entire trip on one performer is dangerous.

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I saw Maureen Moore play Rose in GYPSY and she was brilliant! She is a great pro and a magnificent performer in her own right.

I fully understand wanting to see the miraculous Christine Ebersole in her already legendary performance. However, should she be unable to go on, you can't get much better than the underrated Ms. Moore.

I'd very much like to see Donna Murphy in the role.

Maybe they should simply close the show on those days when "she" is not in it

This will do wonders for business but if people will get their knickers in a twist whenever she is out this may be an alternative. Whatever will they do when the show closes. Threaten to bomb the theater if they close it.

We saw Victor Victoria when Julie Andrews was out. We stayed & were quite pleased with Anne Runalfson as the understudy

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Updated On: 6/10/07 at 11:04 AM

I feel so bad for Ms. Moore. No one deserves that, especially when virtually no one has a bad thing to say about her performance. I would like to see her in the role at some point.

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I was at the show last night. I was in Brooklyn helping my brother on his house and at one point seeing Romeo & Juliet on standby, but then opted that if I were in the city by 7 we’d try to SRO Spring Awakening.

By the time I got in from Brooklyn, SR was out of SRO. I walked by the theater and saw the posters for Maureen. I didn’t see this “riot” but I did see people in the will-call line about 10 deep each time I passed through returning tickets. I was able to nab a student ticket at 7:30 and then had to run back and forth from 40th St. like a madman in order to get cleaned up for the show.

The curtain was held for 15 minutes, me just barely making it. There was a line outside that I thought was possibly a late group arrival but it was the return line. I missed the man from California.

The show itself was very enjoyable. Maureen played both roles beautifully, although seeming nervous in the first act. I felt like that was ok considering Edith is nervous in the first act due to hosting a party and simply neurotic in the second act. Her accent was quite good during the first, but a little British in the second.

She looked very much like Christine in the second act, almost uncanny (aside from being much shorter). In the second act we were able to grab the front row center seats, directly behind the conductor. I’m unsure if it was outshining or just a realization, but Mary Louise Wilson is absolutely brilliant, she was just so on last night. Maureen’s acting was great and she was able to bring little things in whereas much of the rest has to be based on impression both of Little Edie and of Ebersole as Little Edie. At the end of “Big House” she did this little adorable “encore” during the “send-out” she went back in the green door and came back out for a second bow. She was great as Big Edith in the first act, her “Will You” left something to be desired, but overall her acting was great, “Hominy Grits” got huge laughs. Her “Around the World” was quite good and she took quite pregnant Victoria Clark-esque pauses in “Another Winter” which was strikingly good. One phrase she turned her head and was so resonate that I was almost moved to tears.

The audience was very receptive tonight, much more then when I saw it with Ebersole which surprised me. I saw it both times on a Saturday evening. The curtain was interesting as Maureen is quite short comparatively speaking and when I stood she and I were almost eye-to-eye.

The most extraordinary thing happened after the show. A smaller group waited outside at the stage door, something I don’t do often but wanted to congratulate Maureen for her performance. Erin, Matt and the girls came out and then Maureen did, extremely surprised to see people had waited. She started around the arc of people and then offered anyone under 17 a trip backstage (I believe they were from a theater group but I’m unsure).

She got to me, stopped and went “Thank you so much, just thank you so much for being here tonight you have no idea, you were so great”I said “shouldn’t I be saying that???” She said I was her _____, I’m assuming a name for someone to be played off of during a show. She then brought the 17 and unders backstage but reappeared a few moments later, came around the barrier to leave and came up and hugged me! It was extraordinary! We chatted a little longer and I said I hope she gets more chances to go on and she said “Well Christine has worked her little tushy off, so I feel she may be taking some vacation soon” and then she introduced me to her and Christine’s assistant.

It was an eye-opening experience of just how important it is to be engaged in a performance on both ends of it.

So is Maureen going on this afternoon as well? Anyone know?

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Christine is going on this afternoon. We asked the box office.

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I hate to break the news but she is not the reincarnation of Jesus Christ

Yes she is good but not seeing a show because she is not in it is absurd

Nothing amazes me any more

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Updated On: 6/10/07 at 07:43 PM