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#26

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:24pm

Well I wanted to avoid an uproar.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#27

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:25pm

Man... now you have me wondering Rathnait! People on here love to torture me with information they know but don't tell! But I understand why, no mudslinging... sad for us not there though...

#28

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:27pm

Yeah sorry...was trying to make a point, not be a tease!

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#29

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:28pm

I too would like to avoid that uproar, I just think it stinks that we have to even do that.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#30

It scares me to think that Tonya Pinkins could be considered one of the best. She IS talented. If she had to only sing once a week she'd be fine. I admire that she seems to play her roles like a TOUR DE FORCE every night but she has very little technique and she never paces herself and therefore sounds like hell all the time.

PS
Donna Murphy is incredible. PASSION was one of the most remarkable things ever...not only because God aka Marin Mazzie was in it but Donna Murphy is just rediculously gifted as Fosca.
BUT Come on now....Could she be absent ANY MORE from Wonderful Town...which brings me to this:
LINDA MUGLESTON!
AMAZING
She is Ms Murphy's Understudy. The woman is impecable!
She was Marin's understudy in KISS ME KATE. She saves Donna Murphy's ass frequently, she's made a career out of it it seems. She was the German in NINE I believe. She has a solo CD as far as I know but hopefully one day she will start off as the lead and not saving the lead.

#31

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:31pm

I saw Linda in Into the Woods as The Witch, as well as in for Donna in WT, the woman does give a decent performance.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#32

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:35pm

Marin Mazzie is unbeatable!

The KISS ME, KATE (revival) CD is one of the only Cast Recordings that is non-Sondheim that I listen to religiously.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#33

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:41pm

Well she was just PERFECT in that show...just like psychoticly perfect. Ok and not that Heather Headley wasn't rediculously good...but I wanted to kill someone when Marin didn't win the Tony that year...I was like "Who do ya hafta &^&*^" lol jk...well not really kidding but you know :)If her and Jason Danieley don't come back to NYC soon I may have a panic attack

#34

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:43pm

Marin was also excellent in LaMancha, I loved her performance.

As for KMK, a show I didn't like all that much, I thought Carolee Carmello was just as good as Marin.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#35

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:48pm

Carolee was GREAT! LOVEEEE HER...can you believe she's had NO training???? DIVA!
Marin in LaMancha....I can't even describe it well enough to do it justice. She was just beautiful and worked so hard..when she sang Aldonza I was just sitting with my mouth open...almost screamed when they were raping her. BUT I hafta say and tell me if you thought so....some of the fight choreography SUCKED. It was messy. But I loved it none the less.

#36

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:51pm

Brodybaby - I know you want Marin back in NYC - but we're going to enjoy her in Reprise's BRIGADOON first. I'm enjoying that some of these fabulous performers get to be seen out here on the left coast.

#37

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:52pm

Oh the choreographed fighting in that show was awful but the talent on the stage just outshone all the flaws.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#38

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:53pm

Pinkins has been singing that role almost non-stop for a long time now, much longer than the show's been on Broadway. I think Margo knows the specifics of it, but when the show started out her voice was fine. It isn't about pacing, it's about the fact that she's been singing a strenuous role with almost no days off for ages.

#39

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:54pm

DGRANT
Just send her back unharmed!
It's all I ask

#40

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:56pm

Brodybaby - let's negotiate a trade - we'll send Marin back, and since he'll be done in September, we'll take Jarrod for awhile.

#41

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 2:59pm

FINE! It's a deal....

#42

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 4:39pm

Oh I'm gonna cry with all this love for Marin running around here! I want her to go back to NYC so I can see her in something when I go in February, but fisrt she has to come back to good ole Michigan again but do a concert on the east side of the state. Oh my!

"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee "It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza

#43

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 4:40pm

This is kind of random, but we said Carolee before about how she took over for Marin in KMK, I think (and tell me if I'm wrong) but I think she'd be great in Wonderful Town as a replacement for Donna.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#44

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 5:50pm

As much as I love Wonderful Town, I doubt that we will ever see a replacement for Donna Murphy(unless of course you count the amazing Linda Muggleston). I don't see it running much longer, I've seen it three times this past month and a fourth time this coming weekend and the theatre seems empty. I think it is at 50% capacity. Well now I'm sad.

#45

re: Who is Donna Murphy?

Posted: 7/26/04 at 5:53pm

I don't think we'll see it last that long either, I just think she would be a good one.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

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