SAVED photos

[Yankeefan007]

SAVED photos#1

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:30pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=28344

So John Dossett and Julia Murney are supposed to play Celia Keenan-Bolger's parents? And Mary Faber is supposed to be her contemporary? And all of these people are supposed to be in high school? Why is Moran Weed the only one who looks the age of her character? They're all talented, but what am I missing? Did they, "they" being the powers that be, not think anyone would read too old (or, in Murney's case, much too young)?



Updated On: 5/27/08 at 05:30 PM

[blaxx]

re: SAVED photos#2

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:32pm

Ha ha, as if... sorry, they take good care of themselves, but they all look in their thirties.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[jordangirl]

re: SAVED photos#2

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:33pm

Sadly, I found the pictures better than the show overall.

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[HeyMrMusic]

re: SAVED photos#3

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:35pm

They all look too old for this show. Celia and Julia can't play mother/daughter. Oops.

~Steven

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: SAVED photos#4

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:36pm

Murney's not much too young to be the mother of a high schooler. She's like a year younger than Mary Louise Parker was when she played the part in the movie. Updated On: 5/27/08 at 05:36 PM

[Unknown User]

re: SAVED photos#5

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:42pm

Didn't Bolger play a middle school student like 3 years ago?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: SAVED photos#6

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:43pm

Murney DOES have weird eyes, though, but that doesn't seem to faze anyone but me.

[Yankeefan007]

re: SAVED photos#7

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:45pm

Okay, Murney looks too young to play Bolger's mom.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: SAVED photos#8

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:46pm

Well, Bolger looks too old to play a high school student.

[emo_geek]

re: SAVED photos#9

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:47pm

I believe it

"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999

[Yankeefan007]

re: SAVED photos#10

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:47pm

Ah, so it's a Catch-22.

[bjh2114]

re: SAVED photos#11

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:48pm

I think Murney looks the right age for her character, but Celia looking too old for her character makes Julia look young. Everyone looks the wrong age EXCEPT for Murney, which makes her look out of place.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: SAVED photos#12

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:48pm

Well, no. Murney still looks she could be the mother of a high school student. Just not a high school student pushing 30.

[wicked_beast4]

re: SAVED photos#13

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:50pm

Murney's eyes creep me out too, Phylis!!!!!!!

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: SAVED photos#14

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:50pm

It's because they are rectangular!

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

re: SAVED photos#15

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:51pm

Didn't Bolger play a middle school student like 3 years ago?



None of them looked like they were in Middle School. The audience had to use their imagination.

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[jaystarr]

re: SAVED photos#16

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:53pm

Thanks Yankee!

I just finish listening thru the ENTIRE Score. I'm not feeling it..sorry!

PS. Damn! At 35 yrs old. I can DEFINITELY play a high school student too! lol!

J*
Updated On: 5/27/08 at 05:53 PM

[Yankeefan007]

re: SAVED photos#17

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:58pm

The thing about SPELLING BEE, though, was the same thing as HAIRSPRAY. In HAIRSPRAY, we know we're watching a man playing a woman. In SPELLING BEE, we know we're watching adults play 3rd graders. It adds to the charm.

GREASE, in its original incarnation, was a parody. In this seemingly "realistic" revival, they suffer the same problem as SAVED. A cast that looks too old for reality.

[jaystarr]

re: SAVED photos#18

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:59pm

How old is everyone in the cast? 26-28 yrs old?

[blaxx]

re: SAVED photos#19

Posted: 5/27/08 at 6:01pm

At least 28 (and up).

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[jaystarr]

re: SAVED photos#20

Posted: 5/27/08 at 6:06pm

Julia Murney is 38 yrs old per wikipedia. Keenan-Bolger is 27 yrs per broadway.com...

J*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Murney

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=512990

Updated On: 5/27/08 at 06:06 PM

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: SAVED photos#21

Posted: 5/27/08 at 6:09pm

Why are they performing on the set of PASSING STRANGE?

Are lights gonna be the sets of all musicals from now on?

[Dollypop]

re: SAVED photos#22

Posted: 5/27/08 at 6:09pm

Please remember how old Ann-Margaret was when she played Kim McAfee in the movie BYE BYE BIRDIE.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[blaxx]

re: SAVED photos#23

Posted: 5/27/08 at 6:11pm

That looks nothing like Passing Strange.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[jaystarr]

re: SAVED photos#24

Posted: 5/27/08 at 6:11pm

Curtain- I thought I saw that stage on Boston's Beehive Show at Cutler Majestic. lol!

http://www.maj.org/P2008/Beehive.html


Updated On: 5/27/08 at 06:11 PM