So THIS is how it's done?
So THIS is how it's done?
#1So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/27/10 at 11:42pm
Now this is fantastic. COMPLETELY different from what is happening over at the Broadway Theatre. I imagine this is closer to how Marian Mercer played it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0TYj1Hvc9U&feature=related
Updated On: 5/27/10 at 11:42 PM
#2So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/27/10 at 11:54pm
Thanks.
Love,
Angela Lansbury
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim
#3So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:43am
That was amazing. A totally different take, which makes it a completely different scene. I love it.
~Steven
#4So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 12:48am^ Agreed. I love how Baranski portrays a sexy/desirable woman, while still remaining ditzy and a bit of a floozy.
#6So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:13amThis makes me appreciate the chemistry and awkward comedy between Hayes and Finneran sixty-nine times plus eight minutes and twenty-six seconds.
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#7So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:27amLOVE Baranski's take (based on this clip) and LOVE Finneran's take.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#8So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:36am
Now THIS is how it's done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QiBK1_LUw&feature=related
If you're gonna change the original choreography, this is how you do it. Rob Ashford, take note.
#9So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:44am
I don't think there is one way IT should be done in terms of Marge. Baranski is a great Marge. Katie is a great Marge.
If she wasn't competing against Lansbury this thread wouldn't exist.
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#10So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:47amI don't get why this has to come back to Lansbury? If we took Lansbury out of the competition, I still wouldn't be rooting for Katie.
#11So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 1:50am
Yeah but you wouldn't have created a thread.
I love you Ljay. I love the Lansbury gang. I even loved Lansbury in the role. I just think some are obsessing over Finneran's faults because she's up against Show Queen Royalty.
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#12So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 2:03amrOcKS, do you know who the dancers are in Turkey Lurkey? I wasn't as impressed with the number as I have been with other Encores dance numbers.
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Marquise
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#13So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 2:33am
That ENCORES! staging was the one that should have made the transition to Broadway. The casting was spot on and the choreography, although different captured the spirit...and guess what? They didn't resort to shoe-horning two Bacharach songs that had nothing to do with the show and they left the show's time period alone and kept it set in 1968...they only added one song and that song "I Don't Know What You Mean" was originally written for the show anyway and then dropped. Oh and their Fran (Kerry O'Malley) was very age appropriate and so much better in the role than Miss Chenoweth.
Baranski let the comedy speak for itself. She was funny but she didn't assault you with every damned line as if it were a sledge hammer. Finneran is just too way over the top for my taste.
Updated On: 5/28/10 at 02:33 AM
#14So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:07pm
That was a great Encores. Baranski was in flawless form. And it made me fall in love with Kerry O'Malley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIx5xkUECcc
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#15So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/29/10 at 12:23amWhy is it that the one musical performance Barnaski seemed to eff up was Follies? To this day I am still confounded by how rotten and humorless she was in that.
#16So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/29/10 at 7:47am
The true mark of genius is the ability to take great chances with no fear of failure. As Lady Macbeth says, "If we fail, we fail."
I'd like to see Christine Baranski take on Lady Macbeth. Her "Out, out damned spot" would probably be hysterical.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#17So THIS is how it's done?
Posted: 5/29/10 at 8:11pmWhatever happened to Marian Mercer? She was marvelous in the role.
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