Mazzie out of BULLETS
Mazzie out of BULLETS
Jamie Pierce
Leading Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#1Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 11:57amMarin Mazzie was out last night which, while likely due to illness (get well soon!), surprised me nevertheless considering that (I believe) this is the time Tony nominators are out considering the prospects (or has that already taken place)? Hasn't she been in-and-out throughout the preview/run thus far? Enjoyed Janet Dickinson, although I have nothing to compare.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#2Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 12:22pm
She's missed a few performances, hope she's alright?
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#3Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 12:31pmIt is rather strange that she chose to have an illness at an inopportune time.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 12:34pm
MOST of the nominators have seen most of the shows. It won't make a big difference.
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BWayBound115
Chorus Member Joined: 4/15/07
#5Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 12:43pmFor a quick minute, I read this as Janice Dickinson....in which case, I would bought a premium seat to see that performance.
#6Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 12:46pmShe was out when I saw the show this past Wednesday evening.
#7Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 12:53pmHaha! I read Janice Dickinson at first glance too and thought, oh my!?! Too funny.
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Jamie Pierce
Leading Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#8Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 1:25pmI did too when I saw the Playbill insert. I was thinking, that's the best kept secret on Broadway.
#9Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 1:35pmShe's missed quite a few shows, sadly. Of my friends who've seen the show, only one has actually seen her in the role.
#10Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 1:38pmThis is surprising. She missed very few performances in N2N, and I assume Diana is the more challenging role.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#11Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 1:42pm
"She missed very few performances in N2N, and I assume Diana is the more challenging role."
When you are sick you are sick, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how challenging the role is.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#12Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 3:20pm
I read the headline and I thought you meant she was fired..and I was thinking, WHY??????????
Her being sick doesn't seem so bad now...LOL
I hope she feels better soon..
#13Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 3:26pmShe has to do a lot of making out with Braff. If she has a cold or a flu, they cant risk re-infecting each other. He originally got sick from her and that put him out. I hope she gets better soon. Its hard to fully heal from something when you cant take the necessary time off. Most actors try to hop back after a day or two.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
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#14Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 3:56pmI've no luck seeing her in a show. She was out when I went to both Bullets and Carrie. I was disappointed, but, oh well.
#15Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 4:49pm
"When you are sick you are sick, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how challenging the role is."
I think Ljay's point was either 1. Being in a more demanding role is more exhausting and can make you more susceptible to illness, or 2. People still perform with illness (e.g., O'Hara in BRIDGES) and it's interesting that if this is the case Mazzie can still get through N2N but not Bullets.
However, the clarification RE: preventing illness in Braff is such a good point.
I guess in the end you can just be unlucky. I recall that Bernadette had a reputation for being sick in GYPSY but didn't miss a single performance of NIGHT MUSIC or FOLLIES. I hope Mazzie gets better soon.
"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
Updated On: 4/27/14 at 04:49 PM
#17Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 6:24pm
Peters' "reputation" from Gypsy had to do with her missing key critics' performances, as I recall. Riedel ran with the story, even posting a (tasteless) picture of her face on a milk carton. He had "sources" claiming the producers (was it the Wei$$lers?) had approached Christine Ebersole about stepping in. Of course, once Peters recovered from her illness (of which I think in total she missed about 4 shows), I don't believe she missed another performance the rest of the run.
Updated On: 4/27/14 at 06:24 PM
#18Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 6:34pm
You're mostly right, adamgreer. Bernadette missed a total of nine performances during her entire run of GYPSY. Unfortunately, something like 7 of those 9 took place during previews, and Riedel used it as a way of constructing a narrative that she couldn't handle the demands of the role.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 4/27/14 at 06:34 PM
Jamie Pierce
Leading Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#19Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 6:46pm
Ugh. Riedel. Also the world's worst Broadway forecaster. Have you seen the documentary Show Business where he unsuccessfully predicted the fate of the entire '03-'04 season?
Updated On: 4/27/14 at 06:46 PM
#20Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 7:19pmShe was out when I saw the show on Thursday. Thought her understudy was fantastic
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#21Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/27/14 at 8:24pmShe was in today's matinee, and seemed fine. She has a wonderful voice, and some of the funniest lines in the play.
Adair Haywind
Leading Actor Joined: 4/2/14
#22Mazzie out of BULLETS
Posted: 4/28/14 at 11:57amAccording to Jason Danieley's facebook, there was a death in his family recently and he and Marin went out of town to attend the service.
