The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread- Page 9
The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
#200re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:27pmSo is not thinking your opinion is the ONLY one that matters...
#201re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:31pm
Ditto, ljay. Although I haven't seen you offer much of an opinion. You're too busy policing everyone else's.
And mscarlyon--you're still not reading the previous posts where people who HAVE seen it say she looks mid-30s. 35. And yes, I can form an opinion of how she looks based on a photograph. I don't need your "permission" to form an opinion either.
Would I have a different opinion of how she "acts" if I saw her in the show? Perhaps. But I didn't base my opinion on that and never said I did. Others, however, have.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#202re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:31pm^ They're gone now, but there were full audio recordings of her "Send in the Clowns" and "You Must Meet My Wife" (now "Weekend in the Country is all that's left) and she SOUNDS too young in all of them. She doesn't sound wise, world-weary, or anything.
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#203re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:34pmFull audio of the production is easily available, and she sounds sensational.
husk_charmer
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#204re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:35pm^ Sensational yes, but too young.
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#205re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:38pmI didn't realize there was a difference between sounding 35 and sounding 45.
#206re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:39pm
I'm with Husk on this one. There's a big difference between sounding good and sounding the part.
I think it's pretty outrageous that Equity would allow Waddingham to transfer, since as Besty mentioned earlier, they are basically saying that no American actress could do this part justice.
I especially can't stand the fact that they have Marin Mazzie, who is in every way ideal for the part, as a "backup" when she should have been their first choice if they were not gonna use an A-lister.
"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"
#207re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:40pmI just think that an American could do this role justice and don't see the need to bring someone across the pond to play it. She may be wonderful but this is the Broadway Production and I just wish they would let all of the wonderful actresses in NYC have a chance to play this role.
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#208re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:40pmExactly!
"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"
#209re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:41pmThe producers are trying to get an American actress in the role, but Nunn is INSISTING on Hannah.
husk_charmer
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#210re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:42pm^ If Nunn isn't careful, he may find himself without backers.
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#211re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:43pm
Lose Nunn!
There's the problem, right there.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#212re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:47pmI'm not uninamimously supporting Hannah Waddingham for Desiree, just that the logic is indisputable that whoever plays it *can* be 40, and that this is believable and as intended in the London production.
husk_charmer
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#213re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:47pmYa know, it just sort of occured to me (Correct me if I'm wrong, because I easily could be thinking of another show), isnt' Night Music basically an Operetta? Because if so, he seems to be directing it more like a chamber musical.
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#214re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:50pmLol, ALNM is cursed never to have a revival again.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#215re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:26pm
"Ya know, it just sort of occured to me (Correct me if I'm wrong, because I easily could be thinking of another show), isnt' Night Music basically an Operetta? Because if so, he seems to be directing it more like a chamber musical."
Yes, Night Music is basically operetta (which is why Sondheim's maxim of "rhyme implies education" doesn't apply to its characters).
husk_charmer
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#216re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:27pm^ I knew you'd know.
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#217re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 7/30/09 at 11:16pm
uninamimously
Um...what? I don't even know how you'd pronounce that non-word.
If you meant "unanimously," one person can't "unanimously" do anything, as the definition requires multiple people to agree.
People need to relax and stop freaking out over false, unsubstantiated rumors that are being stated as truths by people who have no idea what they're talking about.
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Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent
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#218re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 8/7/09 at 10:33pm
It's been a while.
Any NEW word??
#219re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 8/7/09 at 10:37pm
No.
Rehearsals don't start for another couple months. It will be a while before we hear anything.
Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters. ~ Wicked
Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent
"He's a tramp, but I love him."
Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent
husk_charmer
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#220re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 8/7/09 at 11:03pm
Not news, but I had a crazy ass dream that Faith Prince was considering the role, but would only do it if Trevor Nunn made her an over-the-title name, and let her wear the Ursula wig. And then, mid-sentence she turned into Bette Davis.
No idea what brought it about.
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#221re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 8/8/09 at 12:02amProbably this thread.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#222re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 8/8/09 at 12:18am
It's been confirmed by my friend who knows everything that Darlene White of Antelope, South Dakota, is the only living female who has not yet been rumored for the role of Desiree.
I think it's time we through her hat in the ring.
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#223re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 8/8/09 at 12:22am
You know, why should we limit the rumors to female actresses?
I heard the hold up is because Trevor Nunn is looking to have the part played by a man in drag?
husk_charmer
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#224re: The NEW Night Music at The Kerr Thread
Posted: 8/8/09 at 12:34amSo *THAT'S* why Harvey was auditioning! Not for Fredrick, for Desirée!
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