Riedel: Chenoweth Picks PROMISES, PROMISES Over MINSKY'S — Page 4

I couldn't see Cheno doing Minskys. Though it was a long time ago that I saw it...

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Just a side note, am I the only one that finds that picture of her on the home page a bit scary?

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I would like to see him play a fish who was a fan of hers.

EL OH EL (literally)

suddenly I'm not so excited for this.

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I did see the original on Broadway, and Jill O'Hara is exactly as (our) Michael Bennett says: she was special for that time...and right for that part. She sounded like she was going to fall apart at any moment, a terribly vulnerable and dependent young woman in a hopeless relationship with an older, married man. Things have changed A LOT since then! Are audiences today really going to accept, understand and sympathize with a woman like this??? This is the age of "empowered women"! Elphaba, Violet, The Edie Beales!!!

I agree that this casting seems bizarre, but I will give Kristen Chenoweth this: her dramatic scenes in THE APPLE TREE were really touching (even though she was playing a fully "empowered" woman.)

Besty is so right about the original cast being made up of "actors" and MB is so right about the ensemble being made up of "dancers"...especially Donna McKechnie. She was just breathtaking in "Turkey Lurkey Time." The audience was mad for her!

I'm not a fan of Neil Simon's, but a huge fan of Burt Bacharach's. I just don't know if this show is do-able anymore. I remember getting the CD a few years back and being so excited to hear it again (and of course knew every lyric even though it had been decades since I'd heard the album). Yet it really struck me as being horribly sexist, which was de rigeur at the time, I realize, but those doling out the sexism tended to be nothing like SEAN HAYES!

I love the thought of Snagglepuss in Chinese pajamas though. I'd pay $136.50 in a heartbeat to see that.

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Is the phrase "Chinese pajamas" unintentionally racist?

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KChen may be 41 but her forehead is not.

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Maybe they are BOTH doing it!

I'm pretty sure Scarlett is playing Annie and Anne is playing Helen, but they are going to switch it up for the matinees.

Best that sounds more like Anne Bogart than George C. Wolfe...

I thought it was "Helen Keller: At Liberty"

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This is a sad and fascinating thread filled with attacks on one of the preeminent stars of Broadway and even homophobic jokes about a beloved actor. I'd expect this type of banter on Nikki Finke but not here. Kristin Chenoweth played a teenage girl at age 35 and none of you bitched about it. Many of you constantly queened it up about her being a goddess and now she wants to play the role of a 22 year old and you want to throw her off the stage like used meat.

Mary Martin, anyone? Maria? At age 46?

And the hateful comments about Sean Hayes seem to be sadly misplaced on a site that's WWWWAAAAAYYYYY gayer than he is.

What is wrong with some of you people?

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