"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
I will NOT "get the hell over it". This will be an utter and complete DISASTER if Barbra does it.
I don't care at all how she "looks". She is 75 and Rose is in her early 30s at the start of the show. She does not have the aura of a 35 year old woman.
Do we actually KNOW for sure that Steve Sondheim gave his blessing? If he did, I'm SHOCKED!
Cell phone video from a live concert.. come on, let's be fair.. She sounds great. The film version will be enhanced and processed to perfection. Count on it. Remember BARBRA thrives on all the naysayers, she loves proving everyone wrong. CASTING.. If it is not Stefanie Germatta, then whom? Jennifer Lawrence? A Broadway person? I like Zac Efron for Tulsa.. Hanks for Herbie? Travolta? John C. Reiley?
Is that Jennifer Aniston directly behind Ball's right?
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
No. That picture was taken at the Oscars in early 1989 when Jennifer Aniston would have only been 20 with barely any credits to her name, let alone an appearance at the Oscars.
With the lack of talented singers in movie musicals these days, I'm looking forward to a true singing star coming back to the silver screen in one of the greatest musicals of all time. Babs doesn't have the same voice she did 30 years ago, but the funny part is she still sounds better than most actors who have sung on film. Babs has the dream and the guts. Let her do it.
I can't wait for it. I think it has the potential to be fantastic.
I'm reading a lot about Rose not being 75, etc. She also wasn't a black woman, yet a lot of the same people splitting hairs loved the idea of a black woman playing her. So, where's the line?
Arthur Laurents said in an interview before his death that "Rose is ageless" and he believed Barbra could do it. That's enough for me.
However the clock is ticking, and I don't think Barbra's GYPSY (along with this mysterious casting notice that seems to have evaporated) has much chance of manifesting.
If it does I'll be pleased, and I along with droves of other theatre queens, will go to see it in the theatre.