Nicole as Grizabella
Nicole as Grizabella
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#2Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 6:24pmA very different take that I didn't like at first glance. But, it's grown on me and I think she looks fine. Still excited.
#2Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 6:28pmI don't know, I don't think the make-up makes her look old at all. Maybe it will play different from a distance, but from her neck up she looks young and...fresh? Grizabella's supposed to be old and run down.
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#3Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 6:35pmThe make-up is too glamorous. Grizabella is a former glamor cat. She's not supposed to be one now.
#4Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 6:36pm
^ I agree. She looks far too young to be reminiscing about her youth. Grizzabella is a glamor cat but decidedly past her prime. Like so many of us....
Updated On: 10/23/14 at 06:36 PM
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#5Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 7:02pmShe still looks hot even through the makeup. So not sure it's "telling the story" but I don't think they care.
#6Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 7:08pmShe doesn't look old and haggard at all. Why would she be an outcast? She looks like a super model who stole Elaine Paige's coat.
#7Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 7:42pmSome can maintain a certain 'look' by trying to hold themselves together but inside they are 'old and worn' from life experiences-perhaps this is how they are going. I'm sure that Nicole also wanted something of herself to still be seen. I'm sure her voice will reveal all those Memories from her past.
#8Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 7:55pmWhat past? She looks so young her past would have to be a youthful romp with Stephen Collins and then marriage to Doug Hutchison.
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#9Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 7:57pm
Well she looks beautiful, but Grizabella is supposed to be "like a flower thats lost the freshness of its bloom", so they missed the mark on that, but I imagine they want to make Nicole as recognizable as possible.
Updated On: 10/23/14 at 07:57 PM
#10Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:35pmNot ugly -- you should be able to realize that she was once beautiful -- but faded, like a flower that's lost the freshness of its bloom. (Did I really just write that?)
#12Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 8:44pm
"but I imagine they want to make Nicole as recognizable as possible."
Why is she in this show again?
#13Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 9:15pmThat's a very good question. It's not like Cats has ever needed a name to sell tickets before and now there's a star salery cutting into profits. No doubt her name will sell tickets but I wonder if it's enough to justify what they must be paying her.
#14Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 9:56pmShe looks soooo gooood! but yea i agree, she needs to look older.
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#15Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/23/14 at 10:02pmI swear Webber's got a hard-on for her... Scherzinger's been his new pet protege (a la Brightman) since it was rumored she might play Magdalene in the arena tour of JCS.
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#16Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 12:14amThe make up and costume are the fine... She looks like a well worn beauty, as Griz should. The wig is what is killing it.
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#17Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 7:10am
I still don't understand casting young women in this role. You'd think with the dearth of roles for women over 40, particularly in musical theater, an effort would be made to find a 50 year-old to play this aging character. I always return to the original casting: Judy Dench. She was the production's conception of the part, and she was in her 40's. Yes, the song has become something else, a big, full-throated roof raiser. It would take artistic guts to cast an older woman. To let the role break our hearts instead of our ear drums. It's just more Idol-y trade-offs, money notes instead of character. And in a show that absolutely begs for more character work, not less.
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Updated On: 10/24/14 at 07:10 AM
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#18Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 8:51am
What did they do to her legs in this photo?
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#19Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 9:53am
I find it funny that we are judging her by her age....
and yet when you look at the past people who played her
Laurie Beechman
Taylor Dayne
Liz Calloway
Lea Salonga
All of then are still only in their 40s (and Laurie passed when she was 44)
Nicole is 36... and in cats years that is about 200 years old.
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#20Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 10:05amI think it has little to do with her age and everything to do with the fact she looks ridiculous; as others have said, she is supposed to be a formerly glamorous cat, not some sexy Halloween-costumey kitty. Ugh, she looks every bit the non-actress she is.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#21Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 10:10amIn every one of those shots she has exactly the same facial expression- and it's a blank one at that!
#22Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 10:22am
"Scherzinger's been his new pet protege (a la Brightman) since it was rumored she might play Magdalene in the arena tour of JCS."
Ah ah ah, let's not forget about Sierra Boggess!
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#23Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 10:28am
Is it not a good possibility that these are simply publicity photos and not a final product. Of course they want her recognizable in them, maybe there will be more costume/styling in the actual production. Also it is possible that there is a re-visioning process happening with the character to make her more relevant to a newer audience. I personally always thought that the Grizabella costume looked odd and didn't mesh well with the visual of the show, however it is what we know so therefore what we are expecting.
Updated On: 10/24/14 at 10:28 AM
#24Nicole as Grizabella
Posted: 10/24/14 at 12:30pm
for me its the wig
Im a fan of cats, and I have always thought the UK production had the best looking cat wigs (not including the original cast)
I just think it looks odd that everyone is wearing nice cat wigs and she looks like she just has on one of those bandos with cat ears, and that curl at the front? it just does not work with the other makeup/wigs
But I agree its all to make her more recognisable.
Remember back when Michael Crawford was in Woman in White and people would leave the theatre complaining that they didnt see Crawford just because they didnt recognise him? there are some silly people out there that would not recognise her therefore feel cheated that "she did not perform" when she did.
Thankfully its just a short run, Wish I could see it tho
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