The Art of Scenery Chewing

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Read these comments on the video linked above ... they are the exact reason why I LOVE YouTube:

elfguest2008 - LOL Patti really is AWFUL isn't she!?! (Elaine) Paige didn't sing the same key because the notes were lowered for Glenn Close and everyone sang them in that key afterwards. Fool.

gabsylv - thank you for sharing your idiocy elfguest. next, please tell us what's wrong with the taj mahal and the mona lisa

elfguest2008 - You're SERIOSULY comparing LuPone with one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World and one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance? And I'm the idiot?

gabsylv - I am making that very comparison. And it's not one of the seven wonders

elfguest2008 - Then I don't need to do anything else. You've well and truly lost any credibility that you could have hoped for! And the Taj Mahal IS considered one of the Seven Wonders of the *MODERN* world by many. Google it!

gabsylv - I can spell. Seriously.

elfguest2008 - LOL. You're resorting to picking up on a typo now? When you seem to struggle with capitalization in a sentence!? You think Patti needs another juvenile fan?? I'm unsubscribing from this thread now. I've got a life I need to get on with.

gabsylv - Yes, go f*** your pet chicken

gabsylv - go chew on a lemon

Exhibit A: Phylicia Rashad

Dorothy Loudon devouring the scenery.

Wow! I love both Patti and Fay! If this is what chewing the scenery looks like, it aint so bad. haha :)

Do you mean the book by Ovid or Sun Tzu?

I don't think As If We Never Said Goodbye is Patti LuPone's best number, and she was way too nasal on the "a" sound in that example.

I saw Elaine Paige in Sunset and thought her With One Look was the most brilliant thing she did and stopped the show, though she coasted from there.

Lupone's Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered on there is superb and a delight, however.

"Phylicia Rashad was F.I.E.R.C.E. in BERNARDA ALBA."

Yeah, but her Jenny Craig commercials leave a lot to be desired. It's like she's trying to channel Uta Hagen. She needs to drop that "grand dame of the theatre" shtick and act like a normal person.

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Susuan gloriously chewed scenery in "{title of show}" and she was wonderful at it.

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Totally intentional, but wonderful, Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman are masters at modern scene chewery!
There were teethmarks on the set!

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My first exposure to the tradition of larger-than-life acting was Zoe Caldwell in "Medea."

Scenery chewing at its finest.
Marble don't chew easily

Bump

We're in need of new threads and this was the best there was for a while.

"Phylicia Rashad doesn't chew scenery enough to be called a scenery chewer."

Uhm, you obviously have never seen this woman over act the hell out of a scene with Raven Symone!