Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:27am
https://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=374662
The Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opens May 9 at New York City Center and we've got a first look at video highlights from the production!
#2Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:36amMegan and Rachel look and sound excellent. Aaron Lazar's voice always makes me melt. So excited to see this one on Friday!
#2Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 12:09pmI've got to say Megan Hilty looks and sounds fabulous.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#3Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 1:03pmA cast recording is in the works!
#4Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 3:44pmI am so happy for Megan and her success! She truly deserves it. I am glad she finally got out of the Wicked cycle of recycling. New and bigger things.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#5Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 3:46pmLooks great!
HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#6Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 4:14pmMaybe Megan had a little frog in her throat, but it's a little growly, non? Looks good, though. Megan's a huge talent, and the rest of the cast sounds great!
#7Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 4:25pmThat is part of her characterization of Lorelei.
"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-
#8Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 4:30pm
I was thinking that you can't really tell what her approach is to Lorelei from these clips - it almost look like she's playing her relatively straight, not as the delightfully bizarre creature from the novel or the stage libretto.
Is it just that's she's trying so hard not to be Channing or too much like Marilyn, she's shying away from being much of anything at all except Megan Hilty?
#9Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 4:30pmDid a straight guy design Rachel's wig?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#10Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/9/12 at 4:51pmNewintown are you saying Hilty is playing herself or that she should be trying to be Monroe or Channing, I don't think we really saw enough of her to really tell though, though what we saw really got my hopes up.
#11Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/10/12 at 5:16amThe cast looks and sounds great (orchestra too!). This makes me so excited to see Rachel York in Anything Goes. I bet she's going to be a knockout.
#12Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/10/12 at 9:28am
random, I wasn't actually saying she should be playing anything in particular.
But, similar to earlier discussions about Margaret White, I find that there's little payoff to a "realistic" approach to a character who was created to be bizarre or over the top.
Also, as I said, these clips don't really show what Hilty's approach really is; if (big IF) she is playing it straight, as a not-very-dumb, not-very-avaricious regular gal (and I'm not saying she is, mind you), I can easily imagine that being far less interesting than a bolder, bigger choice.
#13Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/10/12 at 4:42pm
*************SPOILER*************
About halfway through 'I Love What I'm Doin' When I'm Doin' it for Love', (:21) the Olympians remove their tank tops and do the rest of the number in just their little black shorts. Sigh.
'Our whole family shouts. It comes from us livin' so close to the railroad tracks'
#14Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 5/10/12 at 5:35pm
I found an extended version of Hilty's "Diamonds" performance.
Hilty sings "Diamonds"
"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-
HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#15Sneak Peek of Encores! Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Posted: 6/13/12 at 1:55am
WOW, I'm really sorry that I missed this performance at Encores! Megan sounds much less growly in this recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMTAQFfmJ6o&feature=plcp
At least there's the cast album to look forward to!
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