Sarah in Ragtime- Page 2

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 8:56pm

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:33pm

Was kidding about Sasha Allen...its easy to forget that sarcasm doesnt come across when when typed.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:34pm

Ah...sorry backwoodsbarbie. I often have trouble getting sarcasm through, as well.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:42pm

Hey no problem jazzy, I don't take anything too seriously around here haha!

[Benzy92]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 11:18pm

After seeing RUINED this weekend at City Center, I think Condola Rashad would make a RAVISHING Sarah! Her voice was spectacular, and her acting and presence was out of this world. What a girl to watch!

[Soliantu]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 10:32am

I would LOVE to see Anika Noni Rose in the role as well.. what a great casting choice that would be. She'd be amazing. Has she done the role anywhere before, like regionally? It would be amazing if that happend for the transfer.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 10:35am

Anika would be great as well. I just think Renee really deserves to get this role. She was heartbreaking in that RENT filming and she has a lovely voice (that is well suited for Sarah). She really needs a 'star-making' role, and this part could do just that.

[crystalb]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:26pm

bump.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:45pm

As long as it isn't Michelle T. Williams. Her "performance" and "singing" in Aida was the most amateurish thing I've ever seen.

::shudder::

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:48pm

A while back, I found a clip of her singing 'Easy as Life' and she didn't even look like she was TRYING to act. I would hate to judge her entire performance just by one 57 second clip, but if that's what her whole performance was like...it would not have been good.

Clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEVxMd_sAx8

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:55pm

I sat through her entire performance, and that's exactly what it was like.

Compared that to this performance:
Maya Days as Aida

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:00pm

This thread will now be deleted in 3... 2... 1....

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:02pm

Well...my clip was legal, right?

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:08pm

You posted b-roll from a television program, which is perfectly legal. The other video posted is a bootleg, which isn't.

On the subject of Maya Days, she's hardly the example you should be using when critiquing Michelle Williams' performance. While Days was a brilliant actress, her voice was subpar in comparison to most of the women who played Aida (she's horridly flat in the clip that's been provided here.)

Unfortunately, no one was able to replicate Heather Headley's stunning brilliance in the role, though Merle Dandridge and Deborah Cox came closer than most.

Updated On: 8/6/09 at 01:08 PM

[Jamie Pierce]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 6:27pm

Michelle Williams in AIDA looked like an escape mental patient who wandered on to the stage of the Palace Theatre.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 6:32pm

Speaking of escaped mental patients
http://www.youtube.com/user/RipleyTheBand#play/uploads/8/Zz75NvGRGKY

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 6:33pm

Michelle Williams will probably be Chicago's Roxie this fall. Apparently she is quite good in London.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 6:40pm

I certainly hope that she's improved.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 6:46pm

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/going-out/whats-new/theatre-review-of-michelle-williams-in-chicago-cambridge-theatre

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 6:46pm

. Updated On: 8/6/09 at 06:46 PM

[Soliantu]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:42pm

Michelle Williams? hm not sure I can see that

[Stanley3]

Posted: 8/7/09 at 10:18am

Stephanie Umoh would be fantastic. She played the role at New Rep in Boston a number of years ago and was excellent. She was a student at the time, and she's only gotten better since then. This would be the perfect 'break out' performance for her.

[broadwaybaby77]

Posted: 8/7/09 at 8:27pm

According to her Facebook, Stephanie Umoh was just cast as Sarah!! Yay BOCO!!

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 8/7/09 at 8:29pm

So proud of her! She's going to bring down the house!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/7/09 at 8:42pm

She looks like a young Audra McDonald!