Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my "Gypsy"
Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my "Gypsy"
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#2Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 11:04amI am not sure if there was a point to that piece
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.
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#2Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 11:09amLaurents was right. She didn't know how to play Rose.
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#3Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 11:20amI love how the photo makes La Dolce Musto look like The Declaration of Independence. But with a more important signee.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#4Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 11:21amI saw her perform "Rose's Turn" in concert and she was amazing. I couldn't get over how well she interpreted the song. It was really beautifully done-and stopped the show. I'd have liked to see her play Mama Rose but didn't get to Papermill to see her.
#5Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 1:37pm
Wasn't Sondheim also not into Buckley's performance as Rose? I thought he also played a role in the show not transferring but maybe I'm thinking of something else.
I remember years ago there were a bunch of YouTube clips of Buckley as Rose in this production and she was terrible (as far as clips go anyway). I'll never forget she actually did a batting gesture when Rose sings "they take bows and you're batting zero," it just didn't seem like this was a role for her.
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#6Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 1:46pm
I saw it! Thought Betty did a great job in the role. I enjoyed it and do not particularly thinking anything bad of her performance.
Maybe Laurents was annoyed because Betty didn't sing parts of the song in Spanish?
#7Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 2:09pm
I saw the production and Betty's big dramatic moments were stunning, but she was humorless. She seemed to forget that the first act is pretty much a typical musical comedy and she just wasn't funny. At all. I think that's what killed her Rose.
I loved her "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "Rose's Turn." She brought such intense desperation to them. It was kinda scary.
It seemed that she was more interested in doing a psychological study of Rose instead of just playing her the way she was written, which is a shame. It sucked all the fun out of the show.
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#8Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 2:16pm
I don't know. I like actors who dare to play a role in their own way rather than 'just as written'. Why reinterpret or revive anything if that's the only way the role should be played?
I didn't see her full performance, just Rose's Turn in concert. And it was riveting and complex-which I prefer.
#9Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 2:19pm
I love her but she played the role like she was doing a musical version of Medea.
In Ancient Greek.
#10Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 2:24pmAnd she used to be so funny...
#11Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 2:58pm
Her "Rose's Turn" at the Carnegie Hall concert was thrilling.
Her subsequent performance of the entire show at Paper Mill was deadly. She missed every joke in the show. It was the most humorless Rose I hope to ever see.
I just read a slightly different version of Musto's story somewhere (was it in one of those Ethan Mordden books maybe) that Sondheim berated Laurents on the limo ride home from Paper Mill for being so tactless to Betty. Not that he disagreed, mind you, but he thought that Laurents didn't need to be that overtly mean.
#12Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 3:30pm
Sondheim berated Laurents on the limo ride home from Paper Mill for being so tactless to Betty. Not that he disagreed, mind you, but he thought that Laurents didn't need to be that overtly mean.
It was a conversation Arthur and Steve had regularly.
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#13Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 3:54pmwait for BARBRA...just wait...and wait...and wait......and
#14Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/6/13 at 7:13pm
Claudia, I'm still waiting for Barbra to do Funny Grandma.
^^PJ, I'll bet they had conversations like that in Anyone Can Whistle when it was being made... Or is it everyday?
Updated On: 5/6/13 at 07:13 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#15Betty Buckley: Arthur Laurents put the kibbosh on my
Posted: 5/7/13 at 7:00amIt seems Debbie Gibson took acting tips from her co-star Betty Buckley. Gibson went on to become what is widely regarded as the unfunniest of FUNNY GIRLs.
