Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening in Carnegie South Pacific Concert

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Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening in Carnegie South Pacific Concert

Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:42pm

Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell will headline in the upcoming Carnegie Hall concert presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific...
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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening in Carnegie South Pacific Concert

Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:45pm

I can't wait for this, too. Anything Stokes does is going to be brilliant, we all know that.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening in Carnegie South Pacific Concert

Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:45pm

This makes me happy. Maybe this will spark the first South Pacific revival ever. And these two are perfect for both those roles. Reba will have a nice new take on Nellie. I wish I could see it.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening in Carnegie South Pacific Concert

Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:47pm

I MUST SEE THIS! REBA WILL BLOW THE ROOF OFF!

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening in Carnegie South Pacific Concert

Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:54pm

Cable? Patrick Wilson?
Mary? Ann Harada?

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:56pm

Reba McEntire as Nellie Forbush?

Well, I don't know... that role is as much an acting role as a singing one... also Reba will have to cut her hair MIGHTY short for "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" (unless they omit shower scene in concert version.) :)

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 6:59pm

Mary_Ethel - I'm not sure the I'd dismiss Reba so quickly. She has surprised before on a number of fronts - and she's as genuine as the day is long, and that more than anything else is what Nellie needs.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:02pm

Cant wait for tix to this !!! DW is due that week... can always hire the Oompa Loompas to roll her into the theater, I guess.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:04pm

Yes, DGrant, but is she ACTRESS enough to pull of Nellie Forbush? A woman torn between prejudice and love? A woman struggling to find out where her values really lie?

I still don't know. . .

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:05pm

Well, she is from the south. (so am I so no bashing to my reponse. )

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:05pm

May_Ethel - one way to find out And honestly, anybody that can sing the songs she does and infuse them with all that emotion has some sort of deep well to pull from - all it needs is to be tapped.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:11pm

Since this is a concert version, it doesn't REALLY matter.

But why would Nellie freak out over Emile's 'colored' children when Emile is black?

Interesting challenger, were this a full production.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:12pm

Emile is French, Robbie. His wife and children are polynesian.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:14pm

Right...and doesn't she freak out because the kids are not white?

Or am I thinking of the wrong show?

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:15pm

No, you are right. In the show and movie he is French but white. I think Nellie would be turned off by the color of his skin if he was black (before she actually knew him)

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:17pm

I want to state again that it doesn't really matter because this is a concert production.

I just wonder how a director could address the issue in a full production.

One way is by casting a black Nellie...Which shouldn't be too difficult. I know lots of black nellies.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:23pm

I know that you meant in the show itself, not the concert version

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:31pm

Just wanted to clairfy with everyone else before the 'YOU'RE RACIST...YOU HAVE NO VISION' comments started flying.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:42pm

i just wet myself reading this news...i must kick myself over and over for having moved to miami.

Updated On: 10/13/04 at 07:42 PM

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 8:53pm

Marquise, I thought YOU'D like this news!

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:39pm

yes Matt_G i had a party in my pants over that one! LOL!

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:47pm

this looks too tempting to resist...

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/14/04 at 3:43am

Stokes as De Becque makes complete hash of the racial element in the play and absolutely no sense, concert notwithstanding.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/14/04 at 4:50am

"...also Reba will have to cut her hair MIGHTY short for "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" (unless they omit shower scene in concert version.)"

She could always wear a wig...

Also, does Nellie supposed to cut her hair or something in the show? Someone explain to me this "hair" thing.

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re: Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell To Have Some Enchanted Evening

Posted: 10/14/04 at 10:06am

It (the racial aspect) is pretty strange, considering the casting. If you read "Tales of the South Pacific", you will see that Nelly's racism is set off by ANY person who is perceived as "non-white". (Reading the novel might not be a bad ideas in any case. I will give you a stronger background into the emotional through-line of the musical)

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