Phillytheatreguy10 said: "With all due respect, Babe and Nellie are not Katherine- Katherine is a feisty, spitfire, outspoken and brash, even as Shakespeare wrote her. Kelli is just not those things and that’s ok. Think of it this way millennials, Laura Osnes, wonderful soprano, can belt, but she’s no Elphaba. Kelli was miscast from the beginning.
Philly, the charge was that Kelli could not do comedy, not that she could not do Katherine as Katherine was p
Kelli O'Hara can do humor. See her in Pajama Game and South Pacific. Check out the concert number that has become the highlight: "They Don't Let You In The Opera, if You're a Country Star." The critic who called her warm and friendly in the show must have seen an early preview, or slept through it. Kate was very aggressive turning back Petruchio's advances, if not as aggressive as Rachel York.
Thanks for the apology. We all lose it here now and then for one reason or another. An apology, even if we think undeserved, should end matters and everyone should forget about the trouble.
That was certainly more than enough for me. I went in hoping to have a blissful time and I did.
I'm not against it. I enjoyed it. Twice. I'm wary of the critics. Most still remember the 1999 revival with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie. That's a tough target to hit.
If I compared it to the last Roundabout big budget comedy, On the Twentieth Century, I'd put Kiss me Kate a bit behind it. I wonder what kind of Anna Kristin Che
From the first preview to the last. Many changes. Many improvements. Kelli is more confident in the role right from the beginning. She communicates with the audience with facial expressions, body language and glances.
Chemistry. I guess there aren't many signs of chemistry in the initial reuniting of Kelli and Will. No nervousness, no preening in front of the mirror to check appearance while insults are passing back and forth. The song "Wunderbar" for me changes all this.
Mezzanine comes from that Italian and the Latin and all that to refer to the middle. Originally you couldn’t have a mezzanine if you didn’t have a balcony. It had to be between the floor and the balcony.
But being in the balcony had a negative connotation. I think the current Madison Square Garden which opened in the late 1960s , before all the renovations, was one of the first major venues to call the balcony the mezzanine and simply have no balcony.
Betsy very much entertained her audience last night, and was sent off to a big ovation. If not up to Audra or Kelli yet, she sings very well and is blonder.
Speaking of blonde, Betsy's pale and blonde head cost me facial detail that I had no answer for. My work with aspect rations probably needs some improvement as well.
If you watch only one, the duet with Jeremy is the best photographed and has some pre-song patter.
I'm going tomorrow night. If I receive permission I'll take a couple of videos and probably upload them to YouTube. They have never refused before, and even when I with great embarrassment was told that my flash had been on (that phone was new to me) when I shot Matthew Morrison and Kelli O'Hara performing "Say It Somehow" from Piazza they didn't me not to take videos, just to be sure the flash was off.
If you haven’t seen this, or want to see it again, don’t wait too long. It fell below the 70 percent of capacity mark. It was a terrible week for Broadway in general, but still.... I wonder if they planned to broadcast one of the final performances as with South Pacific. It was said that a broadcast of King and I was planned but the show closed too abruptly to permit it.
Instead of extending Benanti I wish that Sher had dropped a fresh, new genuinely young Eliza into the ro
I take this personally. My beloved Golden Age musicals, well two of them, not able to outdraw the likes of Mean Girls? A generation of theatergoers who didn't grow up to the strains of "Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you" and "Whenever I feel afraid." Or "All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air." During this period very good revivals of Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof were not given the
I don't believe it proper to say that Kelli O'Hara was miscast. After two very quiet years on the musical front, Roundabout needed a star to anchor their return to splashy and big budget musicals. Kelli and Will had performed a one night concert version of Kiss Me, Kate at the 2016 Roundabout Gala. Her Tony nominated performance in the Roundabout production of The Pajama Game with Harry Connick in 2006 was a nice career step for her after Light in the Piazza.&nb
Mar 1
2019, 09:22:28 PM
I finally got to order the cheeseburger that they serve only at the late shows, and it was a big disappointment.
But only disappointment I’ve had. The squash soup is very good. I also like the scallops when they have them.
Oh, I was looking in the wrong place. It only had Broadway credits and didn't include Falsettos and Waitress.
She's done a lot out of town. Would have liked to see her in Boys from Syracuse.
I was a big Stevie Nicks fan, also. I had the VHS tape of her first solo concert tour that I like so much I found someone who had transferred the VHS to DVD.
I got a pretty good table so I could shoot some videos at proper range. 54
We don’t want to fix what’s not broken. Like my song “I Hate Men” — we’re not changing anything about that except I’m not flailing about, like a crazy woman, so you discount me. I’m just singing the words. Listen, I don&
Feb 28
2019, 06:47:04 AM
darquegk said: "I’m surprised the Italian-American population hasn’t risen up against the term low-brow yet, given its association with phrenology and eugenics; if sleepy-eyed can become a slur last year, a term that deliberately implies that non-WASP physiology is linked to a simian state is probably next on the chopping block.
Not sure if I’m saying “watch your words” or more “use it while you can, it’s not long for this earth.&r
