Why hasn't Ann-Margret been on Broadway ? — Page 2

I felt the need to defend her talent and range. But thankfully, others have beat me to it.

she’s amazing in that episode



she’d be a fun mama in “Chicago”


BrodyFosse123 said: "She’s been quite active for decades, including winning an Emmy Award in 2010 for an episode of LAW & ORDER: Special Victims Unit.

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It's so nice to see all the love for this talented actress. I guess this late in her career, we can only imagine what could have been had she ventured to B'way.

White_Lotus said: "joevitus said: "Ann Margaret is wonderful, but she always plays Ann Margret”



how insulting

you’ve obviously never saw her performances in ‘who will love my children’ , ‘return of the soldier’ or ‘a streetcar named desire’

she’s a damn fine actress

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How absurd. I've seen her in tons of movies. She plays herself in every one, from State Fair to Carnal Knowledge to Tommy to Magic to Grumpy Old Men. She plays the Ann-Margaret character. I like her a lot, she's got tons of screen presence and she has an essential warmth about her that is very appealing. But she's as much the same person in every film as John Wayne or Bruce Willis or however many movie stars you want to name are in their movies. Meryl Streep or Olivier she ain't.

If you need to inflate people's abilities to enjoy them, that says more about you than it does about them.

Based on this assessment and the opinions of others in this thread, is it not just as likely that she was specifically called to play the "Ann Margaret type" in many roles and that she has the range and capabilities to handle many different things?

It is a shame we couldn't have seen A-M on Broadway. She certainly had the acting chops to even pull off Blanche Dubois on television. Who knows - perhaps she could have done a credible Norma in Sunset Boulevard as well.

KathyNYC2 said:

"She also had a long term marriage to Roger Smith (of the old TV series 77 Sunset Strip fame) who suffered for years from a debilitating illness. I doubt she would want to be away from him for any length of time. I can’t imagine that didn’t play a huge part in her career decisions."

THIS. Roger Smith was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a disorder that disrupts the transmission of nerve signals to the muscles, causing severe muscle weakness. This played a big part in the projects she chose to do. She didn't want to make the long-term commitment that a Broadway show would require of her because of this.

It definitely wasn't for lack of talent. I was fortunate enough to see her on the stage twice, in Atlantic City and at Radio City Music Hall and she LIT up the stage.

A true triple threat and as one poster accurately stated: a national treasure.

Updated On: 4/11/22 at 07:50 AM

Dunno what performance of WHOREHOUSE you saw but I saw this tour and she was on her feet and even did an extensive hoedown at the curtain call with all the dancers.

Oh, dear. You musta been quite young and not paying much attention to WHOREHOUSE. That wheelchair is part of Miss Mona’s history and she uses it as her throne. You see, Miss Mona started her sex worker career as one of the legendary Wulla Jean’s “girls.” Miss Mona inherited the chicken ranch from her so the wheelchair represents the brothel’s history and is honoring Wulla Jean’s memory. That’s why Miss Mona “goes to it” and uses it to sit in, like a “throne.”

Here’s that wheelchair during the original Broadway run of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS.

With the horrible reviews 'The Little Prince' is getting, maybe Ann-Margret can replace the star and make it a must-see hit, at 82 years old ?



Just a wild thought...