Performers you "don't get" — Page 2

#26

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:43pm

Auggie27 I agree with you 100%. Even if he seems like a very nice man!

#27

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:46pm

Kristin Chenoweth. A good friend of mine adores her and always raves about her but I just don't understand what is so great about her.

Also:
Carol Channing
Barbara Cook

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Updated On: 8/6/04 at 09:46 PM

#28

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:01pm

Matthew Broderick
Hunter Foster

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#29

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:16pm

Don't flame me but, Ellen Greene

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#30

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:22pm

I'm ashamed to say it, but I have to admit that one performer I never "got" was Dorothy Loudon. Obviously she was extremely talented and deeply admired, even revered, by many. Yet somehow I was never really on her wave length. My fault, not hers, I'm sure.

Updated On: 8/6/04 at 10:22 PM

#31

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:30pm

- Megan McGinnis (I dont see how she gets so many musical roles...her acting is fine, but her voice doesn't impress me)

- Kristin Chenoweth (not a fan of her voice at all- sorry!)

- Bernadette Peters (ugggggh!)~ the only part I enjoyed her in was the role of "Lilly" in the '82 film ANNIE

#32

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:45pm

Kristin Chenoweth
Carol Channing
Mandy Gonzalez
Laura Benanti
Kerry Butler

Updated On: 8/6/04 at 10:45 PM

#33

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:18pm

I'll get slammed for this, but...

Patti LuPone

#34

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:22pm

Cookie...you'll get crumbled, not slammed! :)
My vote goes for Carol Channing

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#35

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:23pm

Kerry Butler
Carol Channing(the woman can't sing anything except "HELLOOOO DOLLY!" **she was very funny in the tonys though)
Karen Ziemba(all my friends love her)

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#36

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:27pm

I never got Barbara Cook.
I also never got Laura Benedetti (I know I missed that up).

But I love those that should be more well known...
Judy McLane comes to mind. SO UNDERRATED! And I LOVE her!

#37

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:30pm

I think what it is about CHanning isnt anything literal, ie voice, dancing, acting but simply her presence. She just seems to bring such life to the stage.

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#38

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:42pm

Ellen Greene, definately. Judged by LSOH only. I really don't think her voice matches the part of Audrey, but I guess its just me lol

#39

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:57pm

Linda Eder (honestly, her voice totally bugs me)
Carolee Carmello
Ruthie Henshall
Marissa Janet Winokur
Patti LuPone

#40

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:08am

Hugh Jackman
Kerry Butler

#41

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:10am

Carol Channing - I can't stand her voice

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Updated On: 8/7/04 at 12:10 AM

#42

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:27am

I agree with Patti Lupone, Kerry Butler, and Linda Eder (though I think she's really good...some seem to think she's THE greatest thing out there)...I don't get it.

#43

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:32am

Who don't I get................Let's see............

I am SO going to be flogged for this, but BERNADETTE PETERS. While she is a great actress, her voice is whiney and it bugs me (Altough I LOVE her in INTO THE WOODS) Her voice DID fit that part. FORGIVE ME!!!!!

Mandy Patinkin........CAN'T SING. PERIOD!!!!
Barbara Streisand.......TOO DIVA
Ute Lemper............NOPE!!!!
and there are others, but I can't think right now.

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#44

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:40am

this is me--skipping to the end of this thread because I CAN NOT bear to read anymore of this!! I am AMAZED at the bizarre disregard for people who are beyond argument--GREATS IN THE THEATRE. So WHAT if you don't "get them"--LEARN. Because it is just as asinine as if I said, "I just don't get that Shakespeare dude--what is up with that weird language?" or "George Bernard Shaw--who does he think he is--yawn. He so wasn't important in theatre."

LEARN, folks--especially if you want to BE in this business!

*steps off of the soap box

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#45

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:53am

jrb...maybe you're missing what we're talking about here, but the original question was who do we admire but we just...well...don't get them. In other words (or at least in my case) we recognize and acknowledge their talent, but maybe these performers are just not our thing, or we think there are equally, if not more talented people out there...or we personally feel that there are more worthy people of all the hoopla that some of these people have gotten. I can't imagine how you could be telling us to LEARN when this is really just a matter of opinion.

And just because they are the legends or the "greats" of theatre doesn't make them the most talented. Look at any part of show business, the most talented aren't necessarily the biggest stars.

#46

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:57am

Mandy Patinkin

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#47

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:59am

Idina Menzel. Bernadette Peters.
Bernadette Peters I can sort of see, if I'm in a very generous mood and it's nothing Gypsy related. But Menzel, I can't really wrap my mind around.

#48

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:59am

as i have mentioned before, many of the broadway legends had they come onto the scene now would probobly never get cast in a show, since shows now are written for tremendous ranges that many of them just didn't have

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#49

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:02am

::spots chasing_rainbows43 in scope of rifle::

Take it back, biatch!

(just kidding.)

#50

re: Performers you 'don't get'

Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:06am

Nathan Lane
Karen Ziemba
Kristin Chenoweth
Idina Menzel
Adam Pascal

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