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#1

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:44pm

Anyone interested? I know she's been doing the show on the West Coast and on the road for the past year. What's the buzz on the show and her performance? Worth seeing? I'm a big Tallulah fan and a big fan of her campy last film, "Die, Die, My Darling" which figures into the plot of the show. Just watched it for the first time in years on TCM a couple of weeks ago. (It's a hoot!) So... what's the buzz?
#2

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 12:09am

With Chase Mishkin at the helm and virtually no buzz in New York, I fear this show will flop.

That being said, I love Valerie Harper and Tallulah Bankhead and I think I will love this show. I hope it gets excellent reviews that help gets people in the theater.
#3

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 12:23am

I loved Valerie in Sex and the City.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-
#4

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 12:36am

I already have my ticket. This show seems pretty appealing for some reason...I guess because it's about Tallulah Bankhead, who seems like an interesting "character". Mainly, I suppose, because I'm a big fan of Valerie harper
#6

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 12:46am

I don't see how this show is going to succeed. With no buzz, a play nobody knows about and (although I love her to death) a star that doesn't exactly sell out houses, I don't know how this is going to succeed, either. It's a shame but I am looking forward to seeing this!
#7

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 8:28am

When it was booked into the Lincoln Theatre, which is a large theatre, many of us asked the same question, but it sold out and was one of the most difficult tickets to get in town. There are still a lot of people who love Valerie Harper, and her performance is extraordinary. I wish Valerie well.
#8

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 9:01am

I am SO looking forward to this. Although I never saw Ms. B in person, I remember her radio show back in the early 50's -- I didn't really understand a lot of what she was saying, but my parents were howling and that voice hooked me from the time I was four. A pretty good sampling of the Bankhead persona is captured on the Lucy episode she did in the late 50's. The listing in the ABC's of the NYT reads, "Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead in Looped," so I'll finally have a Playbill of a show that I saw that reads, in part, "Tallulah Bankhead in . . . "
BroadwayEd
#10

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 2:24pm

My friend was at a party on the Upper East side and a several events around the city last week and he said there was a lot of chatter about the show. Mostly among the gay community.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#11

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 2:27pm

Oh this show is gonna market the hell out of the gay community. No doubt about that.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#12

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 2:34pm

Big time! I am wanting to fly in to see it. The former Chairman of the DCPA here is her Godson. His office was chock full of things he received from her. Also, at the beginning of almost every board meeting I attended, he would start with a story about her. I always tried to be early so I wouldn't miss the story. Always interesting.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#14

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:25pm

What worries me is that Tallulah Bankhead is a personality that has never been successfully impersonated in a play or even a revue. (Neither has Napoleon but he's another story entirely.) Helen Gallagher, Tovah Feldshuh and Kathleen Turner are but three who could not make a show about her work.

But then the tales begin:

"Cocaine...? Habit forming...?
Don't be ridiculous. I've been using it for years."

and

"My father warned me about men and liquor. I wish he'd said something about women and cocaine."

and

Reporter - "Miss Bankhead, why are you going to Hollywood?"
Miss Bankhead - "To make movies, darling, and to f--k that divine Gary Cooper!"
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher
#16

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/27/10 at 7:19pm

I saw it at the Pasadena Playhouse, the play is good she is amazing. I don't know how it will do in NY--it may not really be the sort of thing that flies there. It's pretty much a 2 person show and often in NY they don't like film related things.
#17

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/28/10 at 1:34am

When I saw it in Pasadena I thought it was good, but nothing I really remember. It didn't really stick with me. What did stick was me was what a gracious classy women Mrs. Harper was backstage after the show. CLASS ACT.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#19

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 1/28/10 at 7:43pm

I saw it in DC last year and really enjoyed Harper's performance - that said, the show just didn't make a big impression on me. She does a great job, but there's nothing in the plot that completely grabbed me.
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Stephen Sondheim

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#20

Valerie Harper as Tallulah in LOOPED - Thoughts and/or Buzz?

Posted: 2/4/10 at 10:34am

The director actually went to my college! He actually came to talk to my acting class last fall semester!
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

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