Overall comments:
-I think Catherine Zeta Jones is incredibly talented, has stage experience, and I think she even managed to show vulnerability playing Velma in CHICAGO (I'm thinking specifically as the shot we get of her right after Roxie dismisses post "I Can't Do It Alone," in the Broadway show, we get a reprise, in the movie, we just get a shot of Jones' face, and there's the vulnerability we'd never seen. I'm not saying this is the same kind of vulnerability called for "Send in the Clowns" but it's there). I'm also glad that now thanks to the high profile quality of Jones, this revival will be quite high profile, as it deserves to be. And it's also interesting that Lansbury herself wanted to star alongside a star.
-I'm thrilled and excited that Jones is starring in the part. I still think Marin Mazzie would have been perfect for the role, and in a way, it's a shame we didn't get to see her Desiree.
-My beef with Waddingham (and you can go back to the threads, and read my comments) was NOT that she was British. It was that she is a NO-NAME British actress. I wanted a film actress from day one. If they were going to get a theater actress, I thought it would have been absurd for Equity to say that Waddingham was the most capable actress to play the part when we know there are 10-15 actresses Broadway actresses, who would be ideal for the role.
Can't wait to know who Fredrick is. Can't wait for a full cast announcement. Can't wait to see the show.
"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"
