Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?- Page 4
Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
sbflyfan
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/07
#75Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 7:44amShe's just a decoy.
"I'm seeing the LuPone in Key West later this week. I'm hoping for great vocals and some sort of insane breakdown..." - BenjaminNicholas2
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#76Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 7:49am
Here's a pic she tweeted, wherein she referred to the NY Philharmonic's SWEENEY TODD. Looks like a makeup test.
#77Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 7:53amSomeone needs to help her with her lipstick lines.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#78Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 8:28amThat would certainly seem anti-climactic, given all the speculation here!
sbflyfan
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/07
#79Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 9:16am
Still going with the decoy theory. There's gonna be a last minute swap that will happen so fast even Cameron Mackintosh's head would spin.
"I'm seeing the LuPone in Key West later this week. I'm hoping for great vocals and some sort of insane breakdown..." - BenjaminNicholas2
Updated On: 3/5/14 at 09:16 AM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#80Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 9:44amWhy would she be taking time off from her real job at MOTOWN just to be a "decoy?" That makes no sense..
#81Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 9:45amI missed where she says she's the Beggar Woman. Maybe she's just in the cast? Or I missed something
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#82Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 11:00am
i can't open her twitter? does it confirm Begger woman? there was a run through this morning....anyone attend?
immediate edit: still might be happening.
the suspense is killing me!
#83Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 11:22amIs this what you meant to link? She RTd it; it wasn't her tweet. https://twitter.com/Bryn_Terfel/status/439524668505337856
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#84Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 11:30amI don't really understand Twitter. I just saw that picture of her and assumed she tweeted it. Anyway, thanks Lizzie. Yes. That's the picture I had originally posted.
#85Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 11:38am
So it appears to still be a mystery...
I'll be there tonight: I'm incredibly excited for this, no matter who the begger woman is!
#86Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 11:40am
Right-click on the time stamp and you'll be able to copy the URL directly.
You can see from the username it's not her account. She RTed Bryn Terfel.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#87Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 11:53amA friend of mine who works at the Phil just texted me "The beggar woman is a surprise"
#88Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 12:16pm
Wow. This is going to be such a letdown if it is indeed the After Midnight girl.
Plz be LuPone or Bernadette.
"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
#89Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 12:22pmAudra as the Beggar Woman??
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.
#90Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 12:27pmAudra already played it in original version of this concert.
#91Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 12:28pmSo she knows the role.
#92Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 12:46pmA friend who's in this production said whoever is primarily playing the role was not available to do the entire run this week so Bryonha Parham will be playing some of the performances.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 3/5/14 at 12:46 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#93Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 1:04pmHow awesome they are doing this. Who knew there'd be so much chatter about the Beggar Woman? I'd pretty much die if it's Donna Murphy, since I'm obsessed with her, but the possibilities are endless.
"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"
#94Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 1:16pmFor them to bend over backwards re: scheduling they must be really special and/or have a relationship with Lonny. Did he direct that Birthday concert? Audra, Bernadette, Patti, Donna or Stritch. It has to be one of them!!
"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
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#95Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 1:17pm
Oh, boy. I have tickets to the Saturday matinee, and I hope the surprise star will be on… I saw the Porgy and Bess revival multiple times, and found Parham's hammy, warbled "My Man's Gone Now" the glaring low point of a production I otherwise loved.
Also - tickets for this evening's performance are now all $75 on the Philharmonic website. A few seats on the center aisles in the middle of the orchestra are blacked out as "stage extension" seats, making me wonder if the Beggar Woman might be coming out of the audience? So excited to hear from anyone going tonight!
#95Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 1:37pm
Mates I've spotted The Beggar Woman at MOTHERS AND SONS. I suppose she wanted to practice with a real audience.
"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
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Swing Joined: 3/5/14
#96Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 1:43pm
People seem to have missed a few things. I registered to throw this out there...
This is being filmed on Saturday. Presumably both performances...
"This Fellowship will last from first rehearsal on February 17 through filming on March 8"
https://sdcfoundation.org/live-on-screen-fellowship-opportunity-sweeney-todd/
Audra is hosting the broadcast, so presumably she'll be there Saturday doing interviews between performances.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/New-York-Philharmonics-SWEENEY-TODD-with-Emma-Thompson-Bryn-Terfel-to-Get-Live-From-Lincoln-Center-Broadcast-on-PBS-20140305?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#.UxdVnPt5Guc
Not saying its Audra.... but....
Also... the "Stage Extensions" could be camera locations.
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Updated On: 3/5/14 at 01:43 PM
#97Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 1:51pmPLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE AUDRA
#98Who's playing the Begger Woman NY Phil's Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson?
Posted: 3/5/14 at 1:53pm
Ok it's totally Audra. The makeup artist must be really good because I didn't recognize her from the photo I took.
"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
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