Deislily - I last saw them together on the last Sunday matinee that Ambrose played. The scene starts with Higgins sitting in the dark, listening to the recording of Eliza over and over. He's mooning over her like a school boy. For the first time in his life he is experiencing affection for a woman. It's not a feeling he even understands.
Eliza suddenly shows up and substitutes her voice for the recording. What is she feeling? Love. Pity. Sadness. What she is not feeling is ange
I think that Lauren and Harry created something very special during the course of their months together. Lauren pushed herself through many troubles to get to that last performance with Harry that she talks about.
It will be a real shame if we never get to see what they accomplished, through a filmed version of one of their last performances together, and it doesn't seem like any was made, or if the cast reunites for a Live from Lincoln Center broadcast closing week.
This is Shaw's play and you would think that if he had an opinion on the outcome it would finalize the matter. But Shaw loved to deal you the unexpected. The ending that he added on to the play, in answer to how theaters had been presenting the ending is probably the least likely and the least satisfying to people here.
Eliza takes her new found strength and independence and marries Freddie? And for two years the couple can't make enough to put food on the table and survive thr
What you say is interesting, deislily, although I can't answer your question. I was there for Lauren's final performance yesterday before a sold out house, and I regretted that Harry was off. This was my fifth time and the previous time that I had seen the show I had gotten the impression that Harry was softening Higgins, and making him more sympathetic. I guess I'm referring to the last confrontation at his mother's house. I thought that he was less bellicose and seemed genui
Today's Sunday matinee was Lauren's last performance. Glad that the house was completely sold out, with myself even having to put out for a mid-premium seat.
Almost embarrassed to say that this was the fifth time for me, starting with the second preview. When I'm feeling low, seeing this musical provides an instant lift. My age also dictates that this will be the last go-around for my seeing any of these dear musicals from my past in such rich productions.
The best seat I ever had at the Beaumont was left side orchestra, 2nd row on the aisle. The stage is separated from the seats by only a couple of feet and I was on about the same level as the actors.
This seat appealed to me (1) because my corrected vision is only so-so, with eyeglasses slipping around on my face. Since My Fair Lady is a play, a musical play, but one where the straight acting is so important, it is good to see the expressions on the faces of the actors as
Scotty, I was not singling you out as one of the first to be sending nasty comments to the backers of one actress or the other. In fact maybe I’m wrong and only a handful of people will comment on the subject.
But I don’t think that I’m wrong. And there’s nothing wrong with comparing the two performances as long as it stays civil.
After Scotty's last post a made a rather inane comment that people here should get ready for the war that was about to begin between Lauren fans and Laura fans. Blood will be spilt.
When I came back later and didn't see it, I thought I had made the rather common mistake, for me, of previewing it but never posting it. I typed it out again and posted it.
When I came back and found it missing again I realized that I had been guilty of warmongering and gently corrected by th
laurensambrose said: "Wasn’t there also a rumor she and Kelli O’Hara were automatically turned away at first because they looked too old? I’m confused where this sudden post of acting like she was one of the first choices but turned it down because of Ella."
I think of the O'Hara - Sher relationship as more like friends and colleagues than casting director and auditioner. They were each a key to the other's success. Roundabout joint
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Got in a shoutout to Laura Osnes as she and her husband were leaving 54 Below following her performance with Tony Yazbeck on Tuesday night.
“Is Crazy for You coming to Broadway?”
She turned to look back at me and answered, “We still don’t know.”
Guess I'm starting to have trouble reading fine print.
I saw a preview with Lauren and Harry's understudy and at the time I didn't think that it took much away from the show. Are audiences biased in wanting to see the understudy do well or is there just not that much difference in the talent levels of principal and understudy? (Major stars excluded here.)
Since then I twice saw Harry and Lauren, in their prime, firing back and forth at each oth
NYadgal said: "I need to seeLauren Ambrose one more time. Her performance was so nuanced and glorious - and I hold her, as a performer who has been thrust into so much nonsense,in very high esteem.
It appears there’s a small window of dates to see her with HH-P, and the other leads.
Laura Benanti would be better served to stay quiet, and focus ongiving aperformance that lives up to this production. I have no doubt she will, but she has big shoes to fill.
Tony Yazbeck and Laura Osnes are doing six shows together this week at 54 Below.
Due to slow sales, 54 Below has a 35 percent discount on Main Dining Room only tables for the Tuesday, 9:30 performance and the Sunday, 7:00 performance.
Main dining room table $70 less $24.50 discount plus $25 minimum food and beverage
Equals $70.50. Pretty reasonable for that much talent in a small venue.
The way the box office is going, My Fair Lady looks like it may resemble King and I (15 months) more than South Pacific (2 years). This was I think the last performance of Lauren and Harry and good seats were available all day.
LCT has started offering $99 orchestra seats in the rear wings. As much as an aging guy would like to believe that the Golden shows were the best and anyone seeing them would fall in love, lots of current theater goers grow up not familiar with them and their mu
The man who was sitting next to me was one of Linda's biggest fans. He hired out 54 Below, Linda and her musicians for his retirement party.
He lost his wife and his mother pretty recently, and devotes quite a lot of his life to following Linda around to concerts and taking pleasure out of the fact that she greets him with a hug.
I know the feeling. Whatever gets you by.
No small accomplishment selling out 54 Below nine times this year with a top ticket pri
I don't know how Linda treats those whom she employs, but she was perfectly charming last night at 54 Below. She stayed for a Meet and Greet with anyone who wished to meet her. (Well, she does have a new CD out.)
Amateurish videos of "When the Parade Passes By" and "Everything's As If We Just Said Goodbye."
I first became aware of Marin on hearing the lovely album of duets that she had recorded with her husband. After I heard her vocal work in Kiss Me, Kate, I tweeted her with the highest praise for how she had performed two of my favorite Broadway songs: "So In Love" and "Wunderbar." She highlighted my tweet.
My sister died of this disease in 1989, followed only four days later by the passing of the sweet and oh so funny Gilda Radner. Some time after the
