Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Sunny11
Broadway Star Joined: 9/3/14
#1Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/7/16 at 7:58pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxZevYx6vcw
Slay it girl!
#2Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/7/16 at 9:45pm
Meh, she's fine. Nothing earth-shattering.
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#3Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/7/16 at 10:53pm
I think she's pretty phenomenal.
#4Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/7/16 at 11:54pm
Just beating Oak2 to the punch. I wish they'd recast her with Nathan Lane for the Broadway transfer.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#5Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 12:14am
DAMN! That was awesome! The more I see of her, the more I lover her. She has one hell of a voice.
#6Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 12:40am
Nice. Now let's see her do it multiple times a week, along with the remainder of the score. That's the true grit test of this show...
#7Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 1:21am
Well she just sold a crap load of tickets, that was rather stunning
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Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
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Swing Joined: 10/4/16
#8Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:05am
she might as well walk with the Olivier
#9Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:06am
That was spectacular. I hope this transfers...we're long overdue for a proper DREAMGIRLS revival.
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#10Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 3:57am
Going to the first preview - this has made me even more excited! She killed it!
sparepart973
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/12
#11Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 4:21am
I shall be there for the first preview and I am dying of excitement. I'm also seeing the debut of the alternate Effie on Wednesday.
Scarlett212
Understudy Joined: 7/18/07
#12Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 8:20am
Wonderful
She certainly has what it takes.
I can feel her Effie coming through
#13Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 8:31am
She sounds good but she seems to be borrowing a lot of ticks and phrasing from Jennifer Holliday. Hopefully in performance at the theatre she is able to make the role more her own. Will be curious to hear how her acting is...
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
#14Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 8:34am
I thought it was terrific for a TV performance in what I assume is a fairly small studio. I would expect a bigger performance onstage in a bigger house.
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#15Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 10:17am
I thought it was spectacular. Of course it's not totally full blown acting-wise as it's a music performance, but you can see hints of the fire that I'm sure she'll unleash in the context of the actual show.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#16Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 11:14am
Like it's been said, let's see how good she sounds once she starts doing 8 shows a week.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#17Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 11:45am
She sang it as if it were a lullaby. Where was the anger? Where was the rage? It was very ...polite. Snooze. Yawn.
#18Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 12:35pm
^ Exactly, Carlos! Riley's acting has always left me cold. Seems to be some disconnect of emotion in her singing. Fine voice, but there's not much there there for me.
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#19Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:21pm
It seemed like she was nervous about hitting the notes, and I was willing her to give the big bravura performance she was trying to...in other words, I forgot about Effie and was too conscious of Amber Riley's big moment. I guess that's to be expected in her first public performance, and maybe that number has always been like that anyway. B- from me.
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#20Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live
Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:26pm
One more time, with emotion.
(and maybe a bit of autotune)
