Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
#1Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 12:17pm
Was told she's not feeling well today. Theyre not sure if she'll be missing the evening as well as the matinee yet.
Feel better, Audra!
#3Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 1:04pmIf Audra is indeed out, Alicia Hall Moran is on for her.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 12/26/11 at 01:04 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#5Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 1:10pmThey had a matinee today? I went to their website and it only shows an evening performance. (Unless they took the matinee time down already).
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#7Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 2:11pm
Say not so!
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#9Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 4:08pm
Audra and Will wanted to hit up the after Christmas sales.
I bet he is out of Priscilla today too.
I think I saw them at Macy's trying on Uggs.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 6:16pm
Just returned from the matinee. Great TDF seats - 5 th row orchestra. The orchestra was mostly full with a few empty seats. No idea re upstairs.
Audra's understudy, Alicia Hall Moran, could not have been better.David Alan Grier almost stole the show as Sporting Life.The rest of the cast was first rate. Even if she had been there, the best one in the show was Norm Lewis
His Porgy was sympathetic & his powerhouse voice did the score justice. All in all, a first rate production.
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#12Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 6:47pmThe spaceship still lands at the end, right?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 6:52pm
You spoiled the ending & not me
The set was so ugly it made the On A Clear Day set look good.
Poster Emeritus
#14Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 7:04pmWell it takes place in a crack house, right? That's not supposed to be a "pretty" set.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#12Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/26/11 at 10:58pmSO glad I got to see her Xmas eve. She looked and sounded wonderful. No disrespect for the understudy but Audra was a big pull for me to see the show.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#13Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/27/11 at 12:37am
I agree with you Roxy. The set is an insult to paying customers. And the principals.
"Even if she had been there, the best one in the show was Norm Lewis"
I agree that Norm is fantastic and criminally overlooked when standing in Audra's shadow, but believe me, she's even better than he is.
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iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#14Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/27/11 at 8:17amAlready? Wow...
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Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#15Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/27/11 at 8:28amWow... lucky I saw her last week 2 days before Christmas Eve. Audra (and the rest of the cast) were fantastic!
#16Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/27/11 at 9:39am
Bess is no cakewalk even when your well, especially when you're singing it eight times a week, so I'd imagine an illness would only make it more difficult. Audra looked exquisite and performed wonderfully at Friday's matinee. According to her Twitter, she expects to be back in the show tonight.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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Updated On: 12/27/11 at 09:39 AM
#17Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/27/11 at 9:46am
I'd only seen bits and pieces of the set in some of the promo photographs, but someone sent me one of the whole shot.
My god.
I'm starting to think they need a special Tony for Worst Design Concept. It would be a blood match between this and CLEAR DAY.
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Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#18Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/27/11 at 1:02pm
I hear Alicia Hall Moran serves a mean baked apple.
"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."
Updated On: 12/27/11 at 01:02 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#19Audra Out of PORGY & BESS Today
Posted: 12/27/11 at 1:44pm
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