What was Molly Ringwald like as Sally Bowles?

Just bizarre curiosity? I heard mixed reviews about her. Interested in knowing what anybody that heard her thought? Gosh I have had a thing for Molly since like 1987, I wish I could've seen that! LOL. Of course there is the snag of being on the other side of the world.

Sorry, but you're right...there are mixed reviews about her. I saw her from the very front table at studio 54. She was terrible. She has NO sex appeal at all, she acted the same way she did when she was 8 on "The Facts of Life" and her singing was nothing more than okay, at best. I know what people say, that the role isn't supposed to sing well, and all that jazz. Well, my take is that if she sings better than okay, it makes for a more sympathetic character. Now, I saw Joely Fisher twice, and she had it down PERFECT. Her voice was amazing, with some flaws that really worked brilliantly. Simply, simply amazing. That's a woman that needs to come back to Broadway, NOW.

-Vincent

Add me to the list of Molly fans. My partner and I also saw Cabaret from the front row table at Studio 54, and I was more than pleasantly surprised. I loved her! I thought she a little bit of a deer in the headlights quality to her, which I had never seen in a Sally before, and I thought it worked and was really appropriate.
I've always been a huge Molly fan. Cabaret remains my partners fav. show he's ever seen. It's definitely up there in my top ten list.

I thought she was almost perfect. The one thing missing was during Cabaret, her breakdown was almost non-existent. There was no sense of desperation or anything in that last verse. Sally didn't "lose it."

Other than that, she was fantastic.

I thought Susan was perfect, perhaps my only complaint being that for the part, her voice was almost too beautiful. Her portrayal was spot-on, I thought. Witty, cheerful and naive, but altogether a vulnerable disaster.

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BORING, whiny, and sexless. I always hoped for an understudy.

molly was nothing short of a miscast.
susan egan, however, was wonderful. i even liked jane leeves.

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Wow, Susan Egan as Sally Bowles. Susan has such a beautiful tone to her voice; she is definitely one of the best sopranos I have ever heard, but as Sally Bowles?

All I can say is that I went through 5 women playing Sally - and each time I was desperately wanting someone to *get* the character. ALL aspects of the character. I enjoyed several of the ladies but none of them won me over completely. Susan was my 6th (and last) Sally, and I agree with luvtheemcee. She was spot on. No other way to describe it - she was everything I ever wanted in the character.

As for Molly? I saw her in tick, tick...BOOM! and it broke my heart that the only exposure some people had to the role was her horrid performance. So you can imagine my feelings going into Cabaret. However, she did fine. She was a *little* more suited for that role, but she wasn't anything special. Basically I just felt she was adequate overall - but weak in some aspects. I was impressed - but it wasn't hard for her to be impressive when I went in with such low expectations.

I did not care for her at all. I did not think she could sing. And, Yes, John Stamos did steal the show. he was amazing.

I didn't like Molly at all. I found her annoying and whiny. Nope...she definitely didn't do it for me. Though, I did love the fact that she had a bit of costume difficulty, the masochist in me, that is! During the scene where she first meets Cliff backstage, she just could not get the zipper up on her boot. She sat there fidgiting w/ it for several minutes, trying to get her lines out in between, and eventually she had to tromp off w/ one boot falling down and dragging behind her. Then, poor Cliff and Bobby were stuck in that lip-lock for ages. It wasn't one of those feels like forever, but it's really 10 seconds. She was off stage before her entrance for Mein Herr for what seriously felt like minutes. It got to the point where the audience started rustling, then snickering, and I even checked my watch a couple of times. Very funny indeed!

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Jane Leeves was wonderful as Sally, IMO.