Zan Charisse in gypsy
Zan Charisse in gypsy
#1Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/7/09 at 10:05pmHow was she in the show ? Im listening to the london cast recording and she sounds so boring
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#2re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/7/09 at 11:33pm
She had Legs and a Body like her Mother.
And kept them hidden till the right moment.
My second favorite Gyp after Tammy Blanchard.
OnStage that is, I like Natalie in the movie.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#2re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 1:05am
Here we go again with this.
Zan Charisse is NOT Cyd Charisse's daughter. She is Cyd's niece by marriage (Cyd's first husband Nico's sister). She is sister to Nana Visitor (who's appeared in the revival of CHICAGO) and Ian Tucker. Her father is dancer-choreographer Robert Tucker.
#3re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 9:44am
And she was brilliant in the role. She did the transition from tomboy to sexy bombshell better than any other Louise I have ever seen.
I love Laura Benanti and Tammy Blanchard, but Zan remains my favorite Louise, whoever her mother was.
#4re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 9:53am
"(Cyd's first husband Nico's sister)."
That would make her Cyd's sister-in-law.
You mean Cyd's first husband Nico's sister's daughter, right?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#5re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:01am
Really?
Why did I always think she was her daughter?
#6re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:09amhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm1859542/bio
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:19amHow did Ian get off as the only with with a normal name?
#9re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:44am
Our eccentric art teacher in high school was a Greek man who said was Cyd Charisse's first husband. He also used to tell us that he was born a slave in the Ottoman Empire, and then was freed and chosen to run for Greece in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles and then carry the torch at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
We never knew whether to believe him or not.
His name was Ion Theodore (Ion with an "o").
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:56am
What was her mother's name?
Nenette.
I wonder why Nana changed her last name to Visitor. I swear, every time I see her name I think it's some sort of stunted, incomplete sentence. Nana visitor! Baby be good!
#11re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 1:05pmI really need to go buy this recording just because I love Angela Lansbury so much. I'm interested to hear what it sounds like.
If you hide from yourself, be someone else for someone else's sake, that would be the greatest mistake - bare
#12re: Zan Charisse in gypsy
Posted: 1/8/09 at 5:18pm
My memory is that she was good but not great. I never thought any Louise was really great until Benanti.
Of course, I was much younger when I saw Charisse and perhaps I'd have felt differently if I'd been older or had seen the show onstage before that production.