Piazza's Ideal Cast — Page 3

steven is AMAZING! i wish he would have done the OBC too. he has always really wanted to be on TV and movies, so i am happy for him.
he is gonna be famous..just watch! oh, and he isn't gay! someone asked that once but i didn't know how to post yet. not that there is anything wrong with being gay!!( "Seinfeld" ) hahahah

Having worked with Bernadette through the years, all I can say is that there isn't a nicer and more talented woman in the business...she is "the top" in every way - and everyone who knows her and who has worked with her adores her.

However, she has had vocal inconsistencies for years (going back into the 1970s).

When she can sing in top form, she's fantastic...but her voice is very fragile and she frequently loses it. I have seen her go on like a trouper when she's had zero voice (particularly in a club setting)...and pull through for her fellow performers and for the audience.

But you simply can't do that with the role of Margaret --- you can't have someone in the role when you don't know if that person can sing it with consistency and reliability from performance to performance. This is a work of operatic scope which requires incredible vocal stamina.

There is much that Bernadette can and should do --- however, a long run in "Piazza" is not, IMHO, one of those things at this point!

"Awesome"???

"AWESOME" ???

Even in capital letters, much too weak a word.

The experience(s) of a lifetime is more like it.

And, yes...awesome.

I have to say that i think the OBC would have been perfect if Burnham had the role over Morrison. ive seen matthew three time and he is good but you could tell he didnt truly know what he had and i am not convinced that he appreciated the role. i mean to work with such an amazing composer like Guettel is just amazing and every time i saw him in the role it was like "eh whatever" it annoyed me. he was still amazing but you cant beat david. H had me on the edge of my seat the entire show and you could tell her lived and breathed that role. i told him that. i mean he was fabrizio. when he sung his songs it was almost like at any moment he could rip off is skin just to express how much the love he had for clara was killing him. i mean he was so beautiful in the role. completely breathtaking. david is the best ive ever seen in the role. The thing is he was very much on par with the rest of the cast and made you remember who he was. i will never forget him in the role. not to mention he has the best vocal training out of all the fabrizio's. Listening to matthews poppy sound in the show made me sick sometimes. on the other hand matthew is amazing and i would still take him anyday.

I would LOVE to see Peter Lockyer tackle the role of Fabrizio.

If this is a stupid question I apologize, but can Bernadette even get up into the range needed for Margaret? I didn't think she was a soprano at all, so I couldn't imagine her hitting those notes...

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only because you push it soulman
(otherwise I would prefer not as comparison is odious)

The onstage presence
Of both I have seen
David's fine butter
Matthew is cream

Personally, I fell in love with Kelli's performance.

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It wasnt her singing that bothered me. She is good at that. And I do give her that it was a very very difficult role, but I dont think she nailed it the way that everyone else in that show seemed so perfect. I dont mean to say that she was bad. From my first review of the show:

"Kelli O'Hara has a tough tough job! Portraying a 26 yr old with the mental & emotional capacity of a 12 year old who seems to have grown... I dont know that theres a perfect way to get all that across, and in the end her mother comments that she seems very much the same age as Fabrizio, who is 20. She definitely displays naivety and innocence but it just seems as if no matter what age she plays it, itll make *someone* go hmmm? She changed things a bit between the times I saw the show so shes still experimenting it seems. I hope she finds the perfect answer."

no.

Speaking of "Piazza's Ideal Cast" - interesting that the original Seattle & Chicago "Clara" and "Fabrizio" - Keenan-Bolger & Pasquale - will be appearing with current sometimes-Fabrizio, Burnham, - all together in "Forward" -------------
at Makor Jan. 16. Right before Burnham takes over "Fabrizio" for a week.

Updated On: 1/3/06 at 07:24 AM