Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
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Chorus Member Joined: 1/5/11
#1Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 12:12pm
BOOM! And the leads including Jan AND Elaine are coming with! - I'm definitely flying down to Los Angeles to see this one for sure. Victoria will be fantastic!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/158446-Victoria-Clark-Will-Be-Sally-in-LA-Follies-with-Elaine-Paige-Jan-Maxwell-Danny-Burstein-Ron-Raines
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Updated On: 1/11/12 at 12:12 PM
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 12:15pmGod, I wish I could see this!
#2Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 12:45pmCalifornia, here I come.
#3Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 12:53pmMan, I wish I could see this. I'm so bummed she didn't get to do it here.
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#4Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 1:18pm
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=2038452
Looks like Jan will get first billing. Kind of a slap in the face to Tony WINNER Victoria Clark. But Jan's been involved longer, though neither of them sell tickets.
#5Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 1:21pm
ljay, while Vicki's a Tony winner, Jan should've won by now. And as you said, she's been with the production longer.
So sad to not see Vicki Clark in this. I bet she'll be amazing.
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Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#6Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 1:49pm
But wait!? Didn't all the know-it-alls here say that Jan, Danny, and Elaine would NEVER go West? There must be a mistake!
"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."
#7Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 1:58pm....and whoever said L.A. didn't have "culture"? from RC in Austin, Texas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#8Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:04pmI'm even more excited to see this show now!! Victoria Clark will be amazing in this role! I can't wait!!
#9Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:16pmI'm super envious of all you west coasters, I wish she had gotten a chance to do it here. But I'm sure she'll be amazing!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:27pmI legit may have to fly out to see this. I thought Victoria's performance was beautiful in the Encores production, and would love to see her in a fleshed-out production.
#11Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:42pmJust a side note but has her sudden departure from Sister Act ever been explained?
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:45pmI heard that she was concerned about her voice/going on vocal rest, but joining this cast goes against that...
#13Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:45pm
I guess this could be the reason.
Meh. I'm not a big fan.
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#14Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:58pmTHANK GOD. I'm gonna be in LA for this! I can't wait to see what, if any, changes they make from the NY production. And I love Victoria Clark, so that will be fantastic. Wonderful if she'll be as....interesting as Bernadette has been.
#15Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:58pmI'll have to fly out and see this...mainly because I adore Victoria and think she's perfect for the role, but also to replace Bernadette in my memory of this production.
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#16Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:13pmI also wish I could see this . . . . think Victoria will be an AMAZING Sally!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#17Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:13pm
Thanks to you guys, my husband, friends and I are so excited that we will see this in May.
Please don't let us down...
#18Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:20pmis Peters the only one not transferring to LA??
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#19Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:22pmI do find that kind of sad...as if she was 'left behind'. But whatever. Victoria Clark will give a great performance, I'm sure.
"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
#20Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:27pm
I'm sure the producers wanted more than anything for Bernadette to go to LA. But I think it's nice that she's fulfilling her concert engagements.
I do wish I could see Clark. Hopefully she starts from scratch and rebuilds her Sally. I know she has it in her. I thought her LOSING MY MIND was far more of a misfire than Bernadette's. Though Bernadette's can be hit-or-miss.
Updated On: 1/11/12 at 03:27 PM
#21Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:30pmSo excited, I have season tickets to the Ahmanson and the Follies tix showed up in yesterday's mail. Loved Victoria Clark in Light in the Piazza.
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
#22Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 4:08pm
Very excited to here this!
Just got my tickets for "Follies." They are currently onsale via the phone and at the box-office.
#23Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 4:59pmWow she is going to be so much better than Bernadette.
#24Victoria Clark will be Sally in Los Angeles Follies
Posted: 1/11/12 at 5:00pmMan, I really wish I could see this. I finally was able to see the production in New York- my first time ever seeing Follies!- and I thought it was breathtaking, but Bernadette's performance was puzzling, to say the least. And vocally, at least the night I saw her, she did not seem comfortable with the score at all, though I did think "In Buddy's Eyes" was well done. I'm sure Clark will do a terrific job though, she's a great actress and her voice is stunning.
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