Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli- Page 2
Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
#25re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 10:43am
It's Liza... with a Z, right, Rath?
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#26re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 10:52amThat one I'm not sure of...
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#27re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:10am
Thank you SO much! That was driving me crazy!
Oh, I just have to-
"It's M-I-double N
Then E-double L-I
You double up the N
That's 'n', not 'nu'
Then E and double L
End it with an I
That's the way you say
Minnelli!
Liza Minnelli!
It's easy!
It's easy!
It's "Leezy."
No!
LIZAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#28re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 12:48pmSaw the show 28 times, she was great every time. Also great at Birdland. Looking forward to seeing her in Wicked in Philly in April! I have my tickets!
#29re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 12:51pm
Sorry Ken, it seems that she's only with the tour until March.
28 times, eh? WOW!! And Birdland as well?
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#30re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 3:48pmYeah, her I LOVE TO HEAR THE MUSIC brought the house down when I saw it. People went nuts. It was like the old, sober and drug-free Liza was on the stage...then again the drugged up one is more fun.
#31re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 5:18pmI was totally not impressed by SJB as Liza. Given that I am a fairly die-hard Liza fan, so I guess I'm more critical than most...but I just didn't like her.
Not today, Geraldine.
#32re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:58pmWow, Stephanie is the last person I'de ever picture singing "Waiting For Life," but she was GREAT! Lachanze's rendition is perfection and can't be touched by anyone but wow, plesaently suprised with that.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#33re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:03pm
I think it's unfair for people to say she didn't sound like Liza, I don't think that's what she was going for. I never saw her in this show, but I have the OBCR and I'm sure she wasn't trying to sound like Liza, Stephanie was probably trying to get Liza's essence instead of immitating her. Stephanie is a great performer and I'm sure she did a great job on stage, I wonder if the people who actually saw her performing in The Boy From Oz were surprised she didn't get a Tony nod. I didn't know Ruthie Henshall was supposed to play this role, it'd have been interesting to see her as Liza.
"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"
Updated On: 11/9/05 at 11:03 PM
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#34re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/9/05 at 6:30am
She deserved to get a TONY nomination as much as Isabel Keating and Beth Fowler did for her role in THE BOY FROM OZ.
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
#35re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/9/05 at 8:41amSorry, but Ruthie was terribly miscast in the role...and not at all good in it. She may be great in other things, but NOT as Liza.
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#36re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/9/05 at 9:37am
She definately deserved a Tony nod. She was the only supporting actress that year who turned in a diva performance. Even Isabel Keating, who was great, just sang some small ditties -- no big showstoppers like Steph had in the show.
But, never fear, she'll win her Tony soon enough.
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#37re: Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minelli
Posted: 11/9/05 at 9:55am
I liked her better than Hugh Jackman, to be honest. Hugh didn't inhabit his character, and i didn't believe i was watching Peter Allen.
Stepanie had the look, feel and style of Liza down pat.
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