Melora Hardin in Chicago
Melora Hardin in Chicago
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#1Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 8:11amDid anyone see her performance last night?
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MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#2re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:48am
Her in Le Miz at the Hollywood Bowl...
She can sing!
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#3re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:49amOn 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.
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PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#4re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 11:55amShe's an amazing lady, and hilarious on The Office.
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#5re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
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'.
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#7re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:30pmAwhh they put a short blonde wig on her! She should have been allowed to use her real hair.
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#8re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:37pm
^^^^ I know! The publicity photos looked better (with her real hair)
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
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?
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#10re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:42pmEw, I don't like the wig at all. Luba Mason used her own hair, and she played Velma!
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#11re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:44pmWait, what are we talking about?
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#12re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:44pm
Diva: 
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Usnavi
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#13re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#14re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:45pm
That's her hair.
With some extentions maybe, but that's her hair.
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PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#15re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:47pmI 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.
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#16re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:48pmThat wig looks like it could be retired.
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#17re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:49pmI'm confused. Melora is wearing a wig, you can see the line on her forehead.
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TheatreDiva90016
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#18re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
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.
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AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#20re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:53pmwhy is she wearing a wig? I have never seen roxie in a wig before.
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#21re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
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.
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#23re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:58pmThose were her eyebrows.
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#24re: Melora Hardin in Chicago
Posted: 12/30/08 at 12:58pmCountless Roxies have worn wigs... from Charlotte d'Amboise, Brooke Shields, Bebe Neuwirth to Karen Ziemba.
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