Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011- Page 4
Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
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#75Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 2:11am
"I don't get the hate either."
Not much to get. Obviously only speaking for me, I can't stand her as a performer, and like her even less as a public 'personality'. Basically, I like nothing about her.
Updated On: 12/11/10 at 02:11 AM
#76Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 7:33am
Speaking for myself, I like LuPone, but I didn't like her take on the song, and I think she's completely wrong for the part. That said, my casting ideas have been sprinkled through the thread, and I want to put them all together, and fill out the gaps. Now, not that I don't think that the male cast is important, it's just that I don't think that the male cast is important.
Sarah - Martha Plimpton
Susan - Kelli O'Hara
Jenny - Ana Gasteyer
Amy - Sutton Foster
Joanne - Vanessa Williams
April - Christina Applegate
Marta - Nicole Scherzinger
Kathy - Jessica Goldyn
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#77Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 8:27amSutton as Amy is a horrendous idea. Not a huge fan of Applegate either. I could get on board with the rest though.
#78Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 9:33amI actually think Applegate would make a terrific Amy.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#79Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 2:50pm
I would much rather see LuPone as Joanne than Vanessa Williams. I am not a Patti fan, but I hate Vanessa Williams. Every time she sings (Sondheim especially) I wish I were deaf. Very pretty lady, and she may be nice, but I hate her as a performer. She was the worst thing (if not the only bad thing) about Sondheim On Sondheim and she was the worst Witch I've ever seen in Into the Woods. Just my opinions, though.
I think that Christine Baranski would be genius (as I've said before), and possibly someone like Beth Leavel or even Jane Krakowski?
#80Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 3:00pmI think that Williams can be great if she has the right fit. Have you heard her SPIDER WOMAN? And did you really not enjoy "Ah, but underneath"?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#81Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 3:04pmI've never heard her Spider Woman, because I didn't like the show very much when Chita did it, so I knew I wouldn't like her. lol I just don't enjoy her voice. And she seems to play the same character in everything.
#82Neil Patrick Harris to Star in COMPANY w/ NY Phil April 2011
Posted: 12/11/10 at 3:16pm
>> "But the Philharmonic isn't trying to sell tickets to tourists who see shows based on names."
No, but they *will* be selling a DVD/Blu-Ray of the performance to folks who *arent* Manhattan theatre regulars but who immediately know who NPH is, which makes them more inclined to pick it up on impulse. Face it: love him or hate him, the guy's got the kind of name recognition most of us would kill for. And the Philharmonic would be first-class morons not to capitalize on that to see a return on what will be a *very* expensive one-shot evening.
>> "it's just that I don't think that the male cast is important"
I am so very glad you dont cast shows professionally.
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