SWEET CHARITY -2005 revival

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SWEET CHARITY -2005 revival#1

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:44pm

does anyone know why Natascia Diaz & Solange Sandy where replaced by janine lamanna and kyra decosta during previews?

[raulfan]

Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#1

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:44pm

The link does not work anymore. Does anyone have the article and can copy and paste?

Many thanks!

[Unknown User]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#1

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:49pm

It is a mystery-- I saw them in Chicago and they were about the best part of the show....

[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#2

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:54pm

That's funny. I just saw the Molly Ringwald tour, and the two actors in those same roles (I don't even know their names off the top of my head) were easily the best part of the show too.

[Unknown User]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#3

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:51pm

Diaz is very, very talented, but has a very well known history for being fired from broadway shows.

[munkustrap178]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#4

Posted: 12/11/06 at 2:10pm

I never heard that before, mercades. Like what?

And why, because she sucks or because she's difficult to get along with?

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[ljay889]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#5

Posted: 12/11/06 at 3:13pm

There were tons of stories,

Some were that they were difficult backstage.

Other stories were that Weissler's didn't want them to take away the spotlight from Applegate.

And then some believe the Weissler's realized they were too young for the roles. Nickie and Helene should have some years on Charity.

LaManna and DeCosta were great in the roles, and were the perfect age.

[Broadwayboy2631]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#6

Posted: 12/11/06 at 3:24pm

"Other stories were that Weissler's didn't want them to take away the spotlight from Applegate."

The Weusslers ere such whores for celebrities

[BobbyBubby]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#7

Posted: 12/11/06 at 3:33pm

They were upstaging the star, plain and simple.

[BobbyBubby]

re: Huge favor to ask regarding Raul's NY Times interview#8

Posted: 12/11/06 at 3:34pm

THe difficult backstage rumor is def false for at least 1 of the two ladies.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Sweet Charity Revival#9

Posted: 12/11/06 at 4:14pm

And then some believe the Weissler's realized they were too young for the roles. Nickie and Helene should have some years on Charity.
Ljay, I'm not sure I agree with you on this. Gwen Verdon was a year older than Hellen Gallagher and about fifteen years older than Thelma Oliver, Chita Rivera and Shirley MacLaine are of the same age, and Bebe Neuwirth is actually younger than Debbie Allen by seven or eight years. Either way you probably were referring more to looking older than Charity, rather than being older in terms of age.
I've heard BobbyBubby's argument repeatedly though and is the one I'm more inclined to believe.

"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"