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.
I've been watching her films lately. Not so much by dedicating an Emma Thompson Film Festival on my TV, but I kept thinking how underused she is and how brilliant she is as I watch her movies.
I hope she has a worthy Sweeney!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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I'm intrigued by this choice. Obviously, she'll act the heck out of the role. Does anyone have any idea if she can sing (properly would be better)?
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
best12bars, it's already been announced that Bryn Terfel will play Sweeney.
Thompson is astonishingly good casting. I cannot wait.
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.
Let's hope she can make the role her own; I imagine with her dry English wit it will be a very different Mrs. Lovett.
Let's also not forget that Thompson was the original Sally in the 1980s London Revival of Me and My Girl opposite Robert Lindsay, and she sings on that recording, and she sings pretty well, so that shouldn't be an issue.
I still don't like the idea. But it's a good gig for her especially with the whole Saving Mr. Banks film coming out, etc.
I'm a fan of her work, but never a particularly avid one. This casting is certainly different from what I was expecting and hoping for, but I do think she has the potential to be really fantastic. It won't stop me from seeing the show, so I'm hopeful that she'll be great.
I cannot believe they got her! She really should have played the role in the film. She's gonna be ridiculously brilliant! Like they pretty much couldn't have gotten a more appropriate actress for the role; she'll be funny, she'll be scary, she'll be tragic, it'll be perfection.
"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"
She also had a television sketch comedy series in 1988 in the UK called THOMPSON on which she sang regularly including a memorable sketch where she belted "Can That Boy Foxtrot" in a laundromat. Kenneth Branagh, Imelda Staunton and Robbie Coltrane were regulars on the series.
This is pretty exciting, but now I'm just reminded all over again -- and imagine it will be even more painfully clear when he performs alongside Ms. Thompson -- what a boring actor Bryn Terfel is
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I am disappointed but this casting is still somewhat exciting. ACL2006 the tickets have been on sale for a month or two. I will be at the first performance.
"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