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Posted: 2/4/07 at 6:32pm
I know this seems like a random question but I just re-discovered Caroline, or Change, given the number of accolades the show has received in London I checked it out from the library after a long time without listening to it and I've become fascinated by Tony Kushner's brilliantly told story (it's auto-biographical if I'm not wrong).
I love Tonya Pinkins in this recording, it's a pity she wasn't in the best vocal shape during the Tonys (though she still managed to provide a moving and powerful performance). However, listening to numbers like "I Got Four Kids" and more specifically "Lot's Wife" I couldn't help but wonder what Jennifer Holliday would be like in this role. Her "Lot's Wife" would probably stop the show every night, which brings me to the question, was she ever considered to play the role in any of the major productions the show has received (Broadway, D.C., L.A, London)? I believe it's the kind of role that seems fit to her type of performance.
I love Tonya Pinkins in this recording, it's a pity she wasn't in the best vocal shape during the Tonys (though she still managed to provide a moving and powerful performance). However, listening to numbers like "I Got Four Kids" and more specifically "Lot's Wife" I couldn't help but wonder what Jennifer Holliday would be like in this role. Her "Lot's Wife" would probably stop the show every night, which brings me to the question, was she ever considered to play the role in any of the major productions the show has received (Broadway, D.C., L.A, London)? I believe it's the kind of role that seems fit to her type of performance.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
