Funny Girl - Boston Tryout Jul 7
2013, 03:44:18 PM
This is amazing...listen to what Bacall says at the end....this was taped an hour after opening night.
Funny Girl - Boston Tryout Jul 7
2013, 01:23:49 PM
Barbra missed very little of her 800+ performances...(I think the number is under 10).
Now..
Did she sleep walk through some performances?
Did she show up most nights 10-15 minutes before curtain - giving everyone heart palpitations?
Did she willfully cut songs, scenes, anything, to get her out of there as quickly as possible? (the show some nights ran 15 minutes shorter than the established run time)
Did she give notes to cast and crew about anything
"Streisand, in her film debut, delivers the greatest musical comedy performance ever filmed"..
Think about that sentence for a second...the enormity of it..
Kelly Clarkson on Broadway Jul 5
2013, 09:21:30 AM
She's a total bore on stage (concert tour - The Beacon - 200...maybe with a script and strong direction but there is zero charisma on stage...
Should we throw her into the potential Fanny Brice pool (just to make the pool even more ludicrous).??
The woman certainly had a work ethic but like most people who become movie stars...anything OTHER THAN film work seems like a huge pain in the ass...
Look at Streisand, Brando, Andrews ....Once you catch the film making bug - killing yourself every night for 3 hours for 6 to 9 months doesn't seem worth it...
What did the cast of Rags do in an effort to stop the rapid closing on Broadway in 1986? Jul 2
2013, 12:48:40 PM
She had tuberculouis at a very early age and the theory was that due to the lungs being affected, she never really supported the voice in the way she should have. She was a complicated person and it litearlly took a team to physically get her on to a stage due to horrific stage fright. She cancelled more often then she would perform…
…but….
Ask anyone around at the Met about the infamous ‘Sour Angelicas” she did…(1988, I think).She only made it to three performances but tales o
Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her... Jul 2
2013, 12:17:55 PM
Something tells me that the only way MAME would be viable for Bette is as a series of concerts with orchestra - maybe 6 nights at Avery Fisher or Carnegie....with the NY Phil...
She'd probably say yes in a second to that..
But 8 shows a week singing and dancing - it's not gonna happen.
This was an artist the likes of which we have never encountered before or since....
If you think opera has nothing to do with acting...watch Stratas break your heart in fifty million pieces...
What did the cast of Rags do in an effort to stop the rapid closing on Broadway in 1986? Jul 1
2013, 04:38:50 PM
The cast marched into Times Square (led by Goddess, Theresa Stratas)(along with a large number of theatre attendees) and had some sort of rally...I believe in protest of the power of bad reviews yet the loving audience reaction the show was getting...
Why Gaga, who is still at the very beginning of what should be a long career, would WANT to play the hardest female musical comedy role ever written - eight shows a week - for what could be as long as a year.
A role that will forever remain in a shadow as long as there’s a way to play a movie or a CD.
Then gave a really creepy performance in "Vanilla Sky"...
Theres range there and talent...She's not Bette Davis but then who is?
Cameron Diaz officially Miss Hannigan in new film !! Jun 27
2013, 11:17:09 AM
I think, it's fair to assume, that the movie going public will be able to understand that this will be a MOVIE starring MOVIE STARS who are ACTING in a MOVIE..I think we can trust they will understand that the nice Cameron Diaz is only acting and that a villian is a villian...
I don't give the average audience member that much credit or praise for taste and sophistication ...........but God almighty I don't think they really believe that Henry Cavill flies....
I get the part that she’s a pain in the ass and difficult to work with in the extreme, however. She can sing, she can act and she can dance – all extremely well. She’s obviously very gifted –.....she’s not a Paris Hilton or a Kim Kardashian.
Evita is a hard role for any actress. However Evita gets moments where she is off stage, moments where other people sing with her, she gets some down time.
The role of Fanny Brice is (and I include "Evita" in this equation) the single hardest musical comedy role ever written for a woman.
“Funny Girl” rises and falls solely on its leading lady. It matters little if the Nick is good or hell, even present. It matters little what the rest of the cast do or don’t do. A Fanny Brice is needed on stage almost 90 percent of the show.
The score was written for Streisand, that includes S
...maybe with a script and strong direction but there is zero charisma on stage... 