Melora Hardin in Chicago

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 8:11am

Did anyone see her performance last night?

[MCfan2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 8:19am

I'm interested to hear about it too.

I know she's best known for "The Office," but I'll forever think of her as Trudy on "Monk"!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:48am

Her in Le Miz at the Hollywood Bowl...

She can sing!

[MissAnneThrop]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:49am

On a related note. does anybody have any idea who is replacing Brenda Braxton? According to telecharge her last day is 1/4. Just wondering. She'll probably extend again as is her lot.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:55am

She's an amazing lady, and hilarious on The Office.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:58am

Um, we KNOW she can sing -- she's done so for many years AND professionally. Several months ago she starred in a one-woman cabaret show of her own at the Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles: "At the Water Cooler", which was directed by Richard-Jay-Alexander.

She's also released albums:

PURR (in 2006):


MELORADRAMA (this year):

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:08pm

Yes, I know.

But everyone else thinks that all she can do is play Jan in 'The Office'.

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:30pm

Awhh they put a short blonde wig on her! She should have been allowed to use her real hair.

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:37pm

^^^^ I know! The publicity photos looked better (with her real hair)

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:41pm

Uhm, she had her hair cut off in the show to save her child.



It's a wig.


Have you ever seen Le Miz?

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:42pm

Ew, I don't like the wig at all. Luba Mason used her own hair, and she played Velma!

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:44pm

Wait, what are we talking about?

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:44pm

Diva:

[Usnavi]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:44pm

melora is a vet of both stage & screen.

she's so sexy.

one of the first things i ever saw her in was 'soul man' back in '86.

i was channel surfing last nite and caught her in '27 dresses' but since i don't do chick flicks i turned as soon as her scene was up.

i'm not feeling that blonde wig she's wearing for 'chicago'.

hope someone sees her in this and posts a review.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:45pm

That's her hair.

With some extentions maybe, but that's her hair.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:47pm

I like the new wig, actually. I've wanted her to come to Broadway for a long time, and, as I've said many times before, she'd make a perfect Baker's Wife in an Into the Woods revival.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:48pm

That wig looks like it could be retired.

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:49pm

I'm confused. Melora is wearing a wig, you can see the line on her forehead.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:50pm

Sorry,

I was looking at the press shots and not the CC shots.


Yes, THAT'S a wig. And I don't like it either.

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:50pm

Real hair:


Wig:

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:53pm

why is she wearing a wig? I have never seen roxie in a wig before.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:56pm

And I surprised that they took press sots of her without the wig if she was wearing it in the show...


Color me confused.

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:56pm

Brooke Shields wore a wig.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:58pm

Those were her eyebrows.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:58pm

Countless Roxies have worn wigs... from Charlotte d'Amboise, Brooke Shields, Bebe Neuwirth to Karen Ziemba.