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Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com

Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com

sharon1
#0Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com
Posted: 5/16/05 at 7:49pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/l.cfm?id=72411
I think this is great news. He needed to come back to the stage in New York.

#1re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com
Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:36pm

PATIENCE is a joy.

Good news for sure.

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amasis
#2re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com
Posted: 5/16/05 at 11:01pm

WOW.

I saw the DVD of the production Opera Australia did with Anthony Warlow. It's great to hear Michael Ball will be doing this.

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luvtheEmcee
#3re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com
Posted: 5/16/05 at 11:03pm

amasis, get your plane!!! re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com


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Updated On: 5/16/05 at 11:03 PM

gavrochegirl
#4re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com
Posted: 5/16/05 at 11:05pm

MICHAEL ROCKS!!!


What the puck?!

#5re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.com
Posted: 5/17/05 at 12:10am

YAY!!! Michael Ball is coming back to the States! :)

~Rosalynn

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LizzieCurry
#6re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 12:19am

He strikes me as Archie more.


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kec
#7re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 6:17am

Truly excellent news. :)

Lori
#8re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 8:52am

Lizzie, if you'd seen him as Count Fosco in the Woman in White it probably would have changed your mind about that. He does charming yet sinister and subtly evil very well!

This is great news...hope he's planning to stay awhile (say Chicago and maybe Broadway in the spring?)




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sharon1
#9re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 9:36am

Lori
Are ya going to see it

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MagicToDo82
#10re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 10:58am

Hmmm. Could he be gearing up for a Broadway return? Perhaps in Woman in White?


There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.

Lori
#11re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 10:59am

Oh yeah Sharon...with bells on!

How about you?


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kec
#12re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 11:15am

"Hmmm. Could he be gearing up for a Broadway return? Perhaps in Woman in White? "

One can only hope... re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c

sharon1
#13re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 11:24am

lori
I am so going. As many performances as I can do.

Lori
#14re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/17/05 at 11:34am

Magic...I certainly hope so. He rocks as Fosco LOL!

Sharon...see you at Lincoln Center :0)


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rusmic
#15re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 1:40am

This is great. Wish I could see it!

iluvtheatertrash
#16re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 10:45am

Actually REALLY disappointed to hear this. The production was transferring from Glimmerglass Opera House where my professor, Jeffrey Lentz, had the role. (You can see him in the NYC Opera season brochures that were sent out about a month or two ago.) He was to be playing the role but they felt they needed a bigger name so it was given to Ball.


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tmz814
#17re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 2:13pm

This is interesting. I was wondering what he was doing in NYC when I saw him at SPELLING BEE last week.


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sharon1
#18re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 2:31pm

Actually he was in town doing the work for his BBC show, Ball Over Broadway. He has been doing this for several years now. He interviews the casts, and production people. I have heard several of these broadcasts and they are quite good.

iluvtheatertrash
#19re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 2:31pm

Auditioning for PATIENCE.

Yes, they actually made him AUDITION.


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CDuffy5062
#20re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 2:38pm

Well, they must have liked what they saw and heard.

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kangaroo
#21re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 2:46pm

YAY!

Maybe my mom will let me go as a birthday present!

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iluvtheatertrash
#22re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 2:53pm

Eh. It's Michael Ball. He sells tickets. Don't know why.


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rusmic
#23re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 4:40pm

Well we got it that you don't like him the first time. That's ok..but you could at least check your facts because he was in NYC to record a radio program for BBC Radio 2, Ball over Broadway, something he does every year. Which explains why he was spotted at 3 different shows. If he auditioned for Patience too that's ok...he got the job. Why is having to audition being said like it's some AWFUL thing? I'm sure it didn't hurt his feelings at all, if it's true.

iluvtheatertrash
#24re: Michael Ball to Star in New York City Opera's Patience - theatermania.c
Posted: 5/18/05 at 4:53pm

No, it just really surprises me that he had to audition. I'd think that Michael Ball would be offered the role without having to audition. Don't you think that? He's sold enough records and tickets in the past...

And it's not that I don't like him, I just really don't see the interest in him and Crawford. They're so alike and so... I don't know. They just come across as fake to me.


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