Elaine Strich @ Disney Hall.......Oh boy :-(- Page 3

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 2:33pm

Jeez, that L.A. Times "review" was headache inducing. Talk about diarrhea of the written word. W-T-F!!!

[emo_geek]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 2:34pm

I heard from someone working closely with her that this was her last public show. She knew that going into it.

[thommg]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 2:34pm

Sorry, but after witnessing her massacre of Night Music I will never see her again. I have never seen anyone try and pull focus during a show as she did during Night Music. After waiting patiently for her to remember lines, both Bernadette and the young girl playing Fredricka tried to help and Elaine told them both to shut up because she'd remember. It wasn't funny, it was sad and pathetic. And she isn't a "class act". A clas act would not treat fellow performers the way she treats people. A class act would never go onstage and perform the way she does now - a class act would bow out gracefully or use promters as Angela Lansbury does. Now Lansbury is a class act. Elaine, not at all, imho.

[ABB2357]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 2:45pm

If what emo_geek heard is correct, that would explain why she canceled her San Francisco dates so far in advance but not LA.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 2:54pm

For Jordan,

CLASS ACT -

Someone who has the natural ability to choose the best thing or behave in the most appropriate way in every situation


INFORMAL:

A person or group with great style and skill.


Someone who is good at doing something: best, master, queen, superman, old hand, prodigy, artist, exponent, maestro, past master...

Hope this helps.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:31pm

She may not be a class act but she's down to earth (Broadwayworld posters' most frequently used empty compliment)!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 3:59pm

I've never heard that informal definition before.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:01pm

Thanks Carlos, but I asked how SHE was a class act. Not what the definition was. And by your definition, she doesnt fit the bill.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:19pm

She's an ever-infectious diseuse. Leave her alone.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:24pm

@ Jordan, it technically isn't my definition. I literally copy and pasted it off some random website, LOL. And yes, by that definition she doesn't fit the bill.

I guess people are trying to say they admire her, she's a trouper, a living legend and a survivor so they equate that with her being a "class-act" as encompassing all thos qualities, I guess?

LOL @ PalJoey, that article was headache inducing. Ever-ifectious diseuse, indeed!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:25pm

I'm not being mean to her but I am arguing this idea that she's just a sweet, endearing old lady who just "tells it like is!"

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:34pm

David Nichols either has no editor or, more likely, has some fresh-out-of-j-school 20- something as his editor who isn't questioning references that make no sense because he's afraid of looking like the dumb one.

And is this woman a class act or down-to-earth? Just so I can keep them straight!
Mema

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:36pm

Definitely no editor.

With subsumed regards,
FindingNamo

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:40pm

Wow that review reminds me of the Friends episode where Joey uses a thee-sarus, "They are both humid homosapians with full sized aortic pumps. Signed, Baby Kangaroo Tribianni"

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:41pm

Namo--subsuming doesn't count unless you subsume it and "send it back tenfold."

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:45pm

Well, being the fulcrum of a swank six-piece combo certainly sounds like something one should aspire to be at least once.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 7:44pm

Fulcrum sounds like a fungus.

[Kalimba]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 7:51pm

Dame, did you see At Liberty? Sometimes someone has just got to say (nicely), sorry you can't do this anymore.

Kind of reminds me when my parents went to see Frank Sinatra in his later years and he kept going up on the lyrics of his well known songs. It changes your perception of the performer, and that's what you end up remembering.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 7:54pm

I did see At Liberty and loved it. Even bought the dvd. Wish I had left it at that.

[random person 112]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 8:33pm

I find the attitudeds expressed here after we found out that the Elaine knew this would be her last public performance Deplorable. This woman is a living legend who has devoted her life to theater, and this is the thanks she gets. This is what she gets for going out there for what was we know understand her last time, frankly it's so sad, and if you want to know why so many people avoid theater and it's fans moments like this are why. I for one raise a glass to Mrs. Stritch and hope she enjoys her retirement.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 8:40pm

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 9:09pm

Poor dear. When I saw her in "Night Music" I caught her on a day when she was on the upswing on inconsistent, and was really brilliant.

Yet, I'm in the camp that says - if you ain't got it, you gotta put it away. I know she was concerned about doing 8 performances of "Night Music" to begin with. I don't think doing a one night only solo performance in front of thousands is any different - she should be more careful in her choice of projects.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 9:32pm

Quiet, please. That's a lady on stage. And all that's of her is what's left of the song.




Quiet please, there's a lady on stage.
She may not be the latest rage,
But she's singing, and she means it.
And she deserves a little silence.

Quiet please, there's a woman up there,
And she's been honest through her songs
Long before your consciousness was raised.
Now doesn't that deserve a little praise?

So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song.
Stand for the ovation,
And give her one last celebration!

Quiet please, there's a person up there,
Who's singing of the sins that none of us could bear
To hear for ourselves.
Now give her your respect if nothing else.

So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song.
Rise to the occasion,
And give her one last celebration!

Quiet please, there's a lady on stage.
Conductor, turn the final page.
When it's over, we can all go home.
She lives on on the stage alone.

So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song.
Stand for the ovation,
And give her one last celebration.



Ann-Margret: Quiet Please There's A Lady On Stage

Updated On: 5/22/12 at 09:32 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 10:54pm

WORD

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 11:01pm

Thread closed. Pal Joey just won.