Robin DeJesus in LaCage? — Page 2

I know this is probably opening a huge can of worms since you asked the original question at all, but what difference does it make when judging the value of anything besides audibility and the relative vocal timbre of an actor? I'd love to have been there, but I bet I can be more of an authority based on having the ability to review the production at will than some distant memory from 25 years ago and the rose-colored glasses that time provides.

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I saw the original many times and the show in productions around the world, I don't think Jacob has any scriptal ethnicticity.
DeJesus is a possibly great choice.
As far as the original, Laurents had an amazing creative team for This show, besides Herman and Feirstein, Scott Salmon's choreography, Theoni V. Aldridge's costumes, David Mitchell's sets and Jules Fisher's lighting helped create that amazing opening number where Aldridge's costumes flew into air and then chamged yet again, her lingerie, all perfect, and with Mitchell and Laurents the MASCARA moment was a keeper, but I still went for SUNDAY as Best Misical and it is a special taste.

Zack's production lacked any vision whatsoever.

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Hearn was at a dressing table, getting made up as Zaza. At the moment when he sings, "When Albin is tucked away and Zaza is here," he stood up, fully transformed, the dressing room set pulled away and he was on a wagon, which brought him downstage toward the audience, which made an instant transition to him being "onstage".

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Actually, I just watched it - the wagon with the dressing room traveled upstage, and Hearn walked downstage onto an illuminated staircase. I knew something moved, but had it backwards.

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Updated On: 1/26/10 at 11:44 PM