The Search for Elle THOUGHTS! — Page 21

I love Autumn, She's goofy and sweet and amazing. She did such a good job during the line flub audition.
I enjoy Cassie S, even if she is slightly bitchy. She does a good job and I think she can do it, if she just stops being a bit too sexy and less bitchy.

I also enjoy Bailey. =]

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"SporkGoddess, I am in agreement with EVERYTHING you just said."

Ditto to this.

I like Autumn and think with a little more perky she could be a great Elle Woods, and she of course is one of the best singers.

And I really like Lauren as a performer. She has great skills for someone so young.

Also dug Natalie's acting.

I think Elle is a chewing the scenery part a little bit...and we're seeing these up close. I think Autumn is good but needs to up the perky a bit.

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Updated On: 6/10/08 at 09:07 PM

i really like autumn. i hope she wins it. my second choice would be bailey.

Oh, and I'm so glad they got rid of Cassie O. All of her lines and actions were completely unmotivated. I hated her.

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I don't know, but look at this thread from way back:

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?page=2&thread=562865&boardid=0

Well, the powers that be just nixed the Emma Zaks thread. So I'd wager a guess that some of the harmless speculation regarding Emma might have rubbed some the wrong way...

Okay so now that I've watched the full auditions from last night, my opinions have changed a bit.

I really liked Bailey and was impressed with how much she was able to get rid of her accent. That SC accent is pretty strong and I think she did a good job with that and her acting choices.

I could NOT stand Natalie when I was watching the show. I still thought her reactions to waiting to hear her name and the crying in the interview shown before the auditions were a bit melodramatic. That being said...I kinda liked her audition.

I was very impressed by Lauren's audition. I think she doesn't play her age...she's able to play older and that's great. Some of them were playing Elle a little younger than LBB does, it seemed. But Lauren was cute.

Autumn was pretty good. I liked her.

I want to root for Celina. I want to like her, but so far I just can't really. I agree with a previous poster that she would be good in a different show. Maybe even as Enid in this show...but I don't see an ounce of Elle in her.

I didn't think that Cassie S. was that bad...but she played a different kind of sorority girl than Elle, I feel. Also, I felt that they that she, Celina and a couple other girls reacted to Brooke's lipo secret was almost judgemental rather than shock and I think Nikki picked up on that right away. Her delivery of the cottage cheese on my ass line changed with those girls and she sounds defensive and offended. That's not Elle...and that's not a way to win your client's trust. So that would be something to think about.

As for Emma, so far I'm not finding her personality endearing. And I felt she played Elle as pretty aggressive, I just didn't see Elle (as the judges like to say).

I think the bottom three were pretty close. I think I might have put Celina there rather than Cassie S. But otherwise, I think they probably made the right choice.

"was Cassie S in the Hairspray the Movie as Brenda? "

Yes.

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Updated On: 6/11/08 at 12:20 AM

Exactly - which is why I don't care for LBB's interpretation in the show. Reese Witherspoon came off as being intelligent. That quality has been lost in either the adaptation or LBB's acting choices. I think the whole song Chip On My Shoulder actually makes Elle seem less intelligent than she does in the movie.

Damn get rid of Cassie S already. She is such a bitch and so full of herself.

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Is Cassie S. the young one, the 19 year old? If so, wowie kazowie. She reminds me so much of a girl I did theatre with 'back in the day'. While talented, she is just.... too much. I hee-hawed at the teaser for next week, wherein she throws her other contestants under the bus by telling the judges that they pulled back when she did her "Elle gets the dress" scene.

Also, isn't she one that was like "OMG, Jerry Mitchell is like this legendary broadway director...OMG"? My, my, my -- methinks Cassie S. might not be the most popular girl on the playground.