Victoria Clark
Victoria Clark
#1Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 12:30pm
Caught GIGI last night. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Victoria Clark is a revelation. Her performance is truly stunning. Hope something big is next for her. Would love to see her in something like 'Sunset Boulevard'. Or maybe as Mrs. Lovett.
#2Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 12:33pm
She had already delivered some outstanding performances, like her Tony winning one in The Light in the Piazza or her wonderful performance in Follies. And I'd love to see her playing Mrs. Lovett.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 12:42pm
She's a treasure. A subtle, un-showy, warm, funny and beautiful presence onstage. Would love to see her do HELLO DOLLY!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#4Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 1:24pm
I absolutely love her. Does anyone know if she still teaches private voice in NYC?
#5Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 1:35pm
Someone needs to write another star vehicle for Ms. Clark. She's just extraordinary... It's not fair that someone of her talent is not starring in a new musical of every season.
candydog2
Featured Actor Joined: 8/11/07
#6Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 3:21pm
Musical theatre has always been a genre with plenty of great leading roles for mature women - I hope something big comes along for Victoria Clark in the near future!
I would still love to see her as Anna in The King and I at some point. At 55 she's perhaps just a touch out of the usual age range, but Gertrude Lawrence was 50 or 51 wasn't she?
Perhaps a Victor/Victoria revival? I could see her doing that too. Unfortunately it's probably more of a "big name" vehicle but she'd be great in it!
#7Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 3:23pm
I think she'd be a fantastic Mrs. Lovett.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#8Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 7:54pm
She is indeed a wonder! Her Sally in FOLLIES was the best I've seen since Dorothy Collins.
#9Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 8:11pm
Agree, Gaveston. She has just the right quality for the role...insecure and unsure, yet manipulative and mean all at the same time. Few actresses manage to capture that. Most go the weepy route like Bernadette did and I don't find that nearly as effective.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#10Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 8:38pm
I saw her in the second or third preview and again in the second or third-to-last performance. In the meantime, Clark had rightfully made Sally the center of the show (not by upstaging anyone, but just by crafting such a well-rounded and deeply felt performance). Sally is, after all, the best embodiment of the show's theme of self-delusion.
And I agree with you that an actress sobbing her way through the evening would have lost me.
(ETA I only saw it on PBS, but I thought Clark was equally amazing in LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.)
Updated On: 6/14/15 at 08:38 PM
#11Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/14/15 at 11:58pm
I saw her several times in Piazza and although I liked her performance, I felt that Kelli and Matthew stole the show for me. Then I saw her in Sister Act and it was absolutely dreadful, and I sorta chose to forget the 1st act of that show. Then I saw her in Cinderella and she was absolutely terrific, but now her performance in Gigi is my favorite. I feel that the role of Mamita suits her so perfectly, and her chemistry with Miss Hudgens is great. It was a great decision to make the role of Mamita sing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and "Say a Prayer". With that said, Gigi, is filled with extremely talented actors, such as Vanessa, Corey, Howard, Dee and Steffanie. But yes, Victoria is giving the best performance of her career in Gigi.
Also, there is no reason to feel that Victoria should do this or that, she's been working non stop for years. Not many Broadway performers and stars can say that.
"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-
Collingswood
Understudy Joined: 5/7/11
#12Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:40am
With Gigi, this will be her first Broadway show in a 30+ year career that a commercial open-ended run has closed before its time. Thats impressive...
Victoria Clark is one of the finest actor/singers working today. I'm sure she will be back on the boards soon but various articles I've read about her states she wants to direct. Apparently, she came to New York to be a director. She certainly has the connections to make that happen.
Also, would love to see her on Showtime's Homeland again!
Collingswood
Understudy Joined: 5/7/11
#13Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/15/15 at 7:44am
"I absolutely love her. Does anyone know if she still teaches private voice in NYC?"
Yes! My friends son studies with her.
broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#14Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/15/15 at 1:46pm
Oh wonderful! I plan on making a trip to NYC in the next five months and I would love to have a lesson with her. Do you know how I can get in contact to set up a lesson?
#16Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/16/15 at 2:28am
I love Victoria so much (ever since Piazza). I would love to see her as Golde in the upcoming Fiddler revival. Such a queen. <3
Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#17Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/16/15 at 2:45pm
"She is indeed a wonder! Her Sally in FOLLIES was the best I've seen since Dorothy Collins."
Agreed!
Also, how anyone could have played Margaret in PIAZZA after her is just unimaginable.
Nice is different than good.
#18Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/16/15 at 9:40pm
artscallion, I was thinking about our discussion last night and it occurred to me just how wrong it is for anyone to sob her way through a performance as Sally in FOLLIES. In the first place, there's the old adage, "If you cry, the audience won't." But more specifically than that, Sally is the only one of the principals who actually arrives with HOPE that she may yet realize her dreams (by running off with Ben). If the part is played as Debbie Downer, then the show might as well be called "Bad Choices" rather than "Follies".
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P.S. Again I am baffled by the fantasy casting on this site. Victoria Clark as Golde? WTF for? Yes, Clark is a fine actress, but why waste that voice on a role for a non-singer? If Golde sings like Victoria Clark, then she is not the worn-out shtetl wife and mother who defines "love" as washing her husband's clothes for twenty-five years.
Voice = character (entirely in opera, but to a large extent in musicals, as well).
isntitromantic
Understudy Joined: 12/4/05
#19Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/17/15 at 3:00pm
Hated her in Titanic, but that may have been the character. When she gave a master class at her alma mater, she demanded a limo from morning side heights to new haven. How is that for school spirit?
#20Victoria Clark
Posted: 6/17/15 at 4:06pm
Somehow I gotta think Yale can afford it...
Besides, maybe she gives an annual donation to the college, or did the masterclass for free. And, frankly, Yale should (and did) rightly pay for something they felt was worth it. They weren't forced to do anything.
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