Unjustified Tony Wins and Losses — Page 3

"I know nothing about acting. I've had no training at all... I know nothing and I could not see good acting if you showed it to me... blah, blah, blah..."

I don't CARE how much training that you've had. Clearly, your ability to spot talent is impaired.

If your training taught you anything, you'd appreciate Tartaglia's perfect comedic timing, fully rehearsed motions and facial expressions, puppet manipulation (which is SO not easy, for the record), and amazing energy throughout a show that has him onstage for the majority of the time. Not to mention that his performance is still JUST as good as it was when the show first opened, which we obviously can't say for other performers...

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THANK YOU, MUNKUSTRAP!

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Updated On: 12/30/04 at 12:22 AM

See, if any was amateur and annoying in Wicked, I thought it was Chenoweth. Her choices seemed to scream for audience reaction more than characterize, which (in its own funny way) can work for the character a bit. But I found Idina's performance to be very realized and extremely well thought out in the sense that she really found the heart and psych of the character as though she had lived through that characters life, thus creating a more vivid and, most importantly, realistic person on stage. If you've seen Rent and The Wild Party, she does the same with two characters worlds away from Elphaba.

Yes, because Elphaba is QUITE the onion to peel.

Puh-frickin'-lease.

In "Wicked", Elphaba is victimized from the moment she steps onstage, and Menzel did not need to do ANYTHING stellar to get the audience to sympathize with her. The only time when I truly saw her 'acting' is after "No Good Deed". And even then, I felt that her character transition was completely underdeveloped.

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"If your training taught you anything, you'd appreciate Tartaglia's perfect comedic timing, fully rehearsed motions and facial expressions, puppet manipulation (which is SO not easy, for the record), and amazing energy throughout a show that has him onstage for the majority of the time. Not to mention that his performance is still JUST as good as it was when the show first opened, which we obviously can't say for other performers..."

Wait a minute, kiddo. That's exactly what I don't like in acting.Planning out facial expressions and movements. Honestly, what the hell IS that? It's not acting, it's choreography. What acting is is doing your homework...reading into the script and figuring out what kind of life your character lived, putting together their emotional state, mental state, relationships, everything past and present and living off that in the moment. Having all this information, experiencing it, and living off it as if you were that character...and if every night you learn a little more and your reaction is slightly different, then so be it. That is acting my friend. Living off the character's past, and experiencing it in that present moment...maybe a little differently every night. It's not about pre-planning your every move. And if you DO chose to do that, the psychological justification all has to be there. But I always think it's best to discover new things with each performance..it's great to see actresses like Menzel to grow with their roles.

I think that KC should have been put in the slot for featured actress. Although she seemed to get more hype from the press, Elphaba is obviously the main character, the one the audience sympathizes with.

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