Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!- Page 2
Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#25Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 2:24pm
I think you should submit for whomever you like. It is not a popularity contest. They look at the submissions but create their own list to consider from. I would love to see Liza get one... and now that Chita is on the committee I think there is a better chance of that happening.
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Updated On: 5/20/13 at 02:24 PM
#28Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:48pm
"IMO, she is way more deserving than Barbra Cook."
WRONG! WRONG WROOOOONG!
Carolos, I'll do the punching first if you'd like.
#29Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:52pmBy all means...take your best shot, because a comment like that is just unacceptable!
#30Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:54pmBarbara has a cane these days. Maybe she can whack the commenter with it before any of us.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#31Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:55pmCan I have a turn at a bitch slap as well?
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#32Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:56pmWait, maybe we should calm down. Who's Barbra Cook? Surely not the Barbara Cook I worship.
#33Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 4:55pm
Barbara has a beautiful voice, an ideal ingenue, and she has enjoyed a long, successful career, but I can't see how that makes her more iconic or influential than Liza.
Again, I'm not saying Barbara was undeserving of the honor, I just think that Liza should had won first.
#34Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:18pmShe immortalized "Glitter and Be Gay". That was enough. End of story.
#35Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:28pmWhat about that little song New York, New York...
#36Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:13pmAnd her Oscar. Glitter and be what? Liza is an icon, Barbara is a great performer.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#38Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:25pmI suggested Bette Midler-she deserves the honor before anyone listed in this thread so far.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#39Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 9:47pmBarbara Cook is a much better singer technically than Bette Midler and Lisa Minelli. Plus she has a little something known as CLASS which Midler lacks.
#40Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 9:53pmBoth Bette Midler and Liza Minelli are culturally resonant and iconic and deserving of the honor.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#41Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 10:10pm
Love, it's Liza with a Z!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWURas7fYwk
Updated On: 5/20/13 at 10:10 PM
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#42Kennedy Center Honor for Liza!
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:34pmLiza is also a good international ambassador for American entertainment. She's not only known worldwide she's actually better regarded internationally than in the US.
