Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in "Night Music"
Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in "Night Music"
#1Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in "Night Music"
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:01am
I was dying to see this show again, and I truly wanted to love Bernardette and Elaine, but I was missing Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury the whole time.
I wish I'd get the Peters/Stritch "hype" like other BWWers, but I thought some of the other members of the cast actually stole the show.
Desiree is suppossed to be middle-aged.
Bernardette is 62yo, she might look a little younger,but Catherine Zeta Jones is only 40yo, so the show worked a lot better for me woth CZJ. Not only because of her age, but because of her sexiness and glamour.
Bernardette's weak baby speaking/singing voice was just not effective for me. Anyways, this role, as we all know, wasn't written for a singer, so her singing wasn't exactly my problem.
Her "Send in the Clowns" was her best moment in the show.
But her way of delivering lines was lackluster to me, especially after seeing CZJ and remembering her sultry, rich voice reciting those lines.
I can't even start with Elaine Stritch, but I feel that judging her performance is just pointless. I couldn't do that...I don't think she is aware of the fact she is on a Broadway stage.
With that said, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka and Aaron Lazar were good.
Alexander Hanson is so comfortable on stage! A great actor and singer.
Erin Davie is just great in this, a great character she got to play. Wonderful!
Ramona Mallory, I enjoyed her character a lot, this time even more. She was the most interesting and probably the best singer out of the leading characters.
And the best for last, the real star of the show with the most amazing number...Leigh Ann Larkin stole every scene she was in. The true star of the evening in my opinion, she brought the house down with "The Miller's Son".
The rest of the ensemble also stood out, Kevin David Thomas has a wonderful voice and is very handsome. The same goes for the rest of the ensemble, some of the female voices were truly gorgeous...Sara Jean Ford, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Karen Murphy and Erin Stewart. The men were also outstanding: Stephen Buntrock, Bradley Dean and Kevin Vortmann.
Keaton Whittaker has a great voice and her acting was very good.
So all these people wondering why the show didn't open with Peters...well, the answer is this...Catherine was much better!
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#2Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:12amStill wondering why I even bothered clicking on a "muscle23ftl" post.
"Movies will make you famous; television will make you rich; but theatre will make you good." - Terrence Mann.
#2Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:27amMuscle, you shouldn't use this forum to just be a dick because you can. You're one of those ungrateful "fans" who only bashes a perfectly good show so people can stop 1. pitying and/or 2. disliking you because you're an attention whore who didn't get enough love from mommy and daddy. Sure, start a backlash against me, but you're a douchebag.
#3Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:33amI agree. You are a dick. I see the woman daily and she is hot hot hot. Get. A. Life. Ageist. Dick.
#4Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:35am
but I was missing Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury the whole time.
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but Catherine Zeta Jones is only 40yo, so the show worked a lot better for me woth CZJ. Not only because of her age, but because of her sexiness and glamour.
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But her way of delivering lines was lackluster to me, especially after seeing CZJ and remembering her sultry, rich voice reciting those lines.
These comments are odd, because not one week ago it seemed like you hadn't even seen the show before... 
broadwayboy101
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#6Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:53am
Elaine Stritch didn't seem to know she was on stage? Isn't THAT the epitome of acting on stage???
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#7Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 4:57amMama, I love you, but we've got out pitchforks sharpened and don't want you to get stabbed and bleed out i the crossfire
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#8Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 5:07am
Oh this looks like a real nice clambake!
I suppose Glynis Johns had quite the sultry voice, too...
I saw CZJ and while I have not seen BP I cant attest that CZJ performance was one amplified as if to fill the Hollywood Bowl, not the Walter Kerr.She was great but left much to be desired in such a well-written script.
#9Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 7:07amMuscle is such an attention seeking idiot.
#10Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 8:39am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Of course, muscle would do this!!!
This one is priceless!!!!
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#11Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:02am
I spent a good three months of my life putting up with muscle's antics, trying to make a friend, hanging out with him, going to see shows, etc. A lotto buddy, y'know?
We went to see Fela! and the shmuck spent the entire show bitching about how he hated it. I'd keep saying 'this is amazing, shh' but he'd just keep going.
If you don't answer the phone the first time he calls, watch out. He'll blow up your phone.
He's either got issues or the maturity level of a 5 year old, or both. I found that telling it like it is is and then completely ignoring him after that was the best way to get rid of him. In his case, ignoring the problem really is the best solution.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#12Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:53am
"Still wondering why I even bothered clicking on a "muscle23ftl" post."
Because you just know it's going to be delicious and the start of something truly wonderful.
#13Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:57am
CZJ is only 40?
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#15Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 10:02am
Mama does not want to be pierced....so have at it. I'll watch from the sidelines.
I really didn't thing that I'd put Muscle in the same category as Bryan: posters to stay away from.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#16Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 10:05amDon't drag Bryan into this, please. Bryan is beyond nice, never a bad word to say about anyone and I look forward to everything he posts.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#17Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 10:06amI actually don't mind Bryan. It's annoying, but kind of in that 'aw, pat-pat' kind of way. Muscle is just obnoxious, attention-hungry and annoying.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#18Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 10:17amMuscle: the Armond White of BWW.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#19Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 11:42am
Theatre4, I saw CZJ in it, I don't know why you assume it was my 1st time seeing the show.
Wrong...again.
I'm really not ageist, she looks younger than her age, but I don't find her sexy AT ALL. I don't find the appeal I found in Jones.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#20Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 11:43am^ (Muscle's trying to redeem himself and paint himself as the anti-attention whore he is)
#21Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 11:53am
muscle, dude do yourself a favor man and quit while you're behind. actual posts of yours stating you wanted to hear the score live, etc. have been posted for everyone to see.
as we say in the 'hood, someone "blew up your spot."..BIG TIME.
#22Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 12:02pmPersonally, and I know I shall get some nasty feedback from Bernadette's fans, the only show I think she was superb in was "The Goodbye Girl"
To seek revenge may lead to hell yet everyone does it but seldom as well......
#23Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 12:09pmAll this just 'cause he didn't like Bernie in the role?
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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
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Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#24Bernardette Peters is terribly miscast in 'Night Music'
Posted: 7/17/10 at 12:14pmCZJ turns 41 in September.
