Hannah Waddingham

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/13/21 at 11:23pm

How do we get her to this side of the pond?! Watching Tedd Lasso and her vocals and, just, charisma are incredible. I love the show and she's just so wonderful. I did an IMBD search and saw nothing, but saw she had some London credits. 

[sng]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 2:04am

She was Desiree in Trevor Nunn's London production of A Little Night Music in 209 and was absolutely wonderful. The full bootleg is on youtube if you're curious. 

[Martijn-j]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 3:13am

She’s great. I’ve seen her in the West End productions of Spamalot and A Little Night Music. She also did Spamalot on Broadway.

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 11:04am

The name sounded familiar. We need her back! That last episode of Ted Lasso she sounded so good!

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 12:06pm

Phyllis Rogers Stone when?

It's fun that the original Broadway and London "Ladies of the Lake" have both gone on to very exciting TV careers. That Mike Nichols guy might have had a good eye for talent!

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 12:33pm

She's incredible. Can we start casting her in musical movies? 

[pmensky]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 1:43pm

She is brilliant as the Witch in the Regent’s Park production of “Into the Woods” that was released on a London theatre streaming service many years ago. It was the production on which they based the Delacorte production starring Donna Murphy and Amy Adams, except it was good. Of all the witches I’ve seen, she is my favorite.

[cliffordbradshaw2]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 1:55pm

Hannah Waddingham in ALW's "The Beautiful Game":

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AdJKthqajE

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 2:37pm

I love her so much. 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 2:44pm

This week’s Christmas episode was like a cool hug during the heatwave.

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 3:40pm

Yeah! I kinda love it was Christmas! I was sobbing mess by the end! And wow, Amy Adams was in it?? I saw it and vividly remember Donna but hmm.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 4:07pm

If you pair this week's Ted Lasso with this week's (the final) episode of Schmigadoon, you have a very heartwarming and uplifting hour of television. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 5:44pm

Her "Last Midnight"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnJzSZUMxE

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 5:48pm

Send in the Clowns. So good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=063cQW_ZXHQ

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 5:55pm

She is just fabulous! The first Ted Lasso episode of season 2 was sort of ok but then the the following episodes have been great and the Christmas episode was very special. Love Hannah!

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 6:43pm

Thanks for those clips. She's the perfect Desiree. Poised, but also has killer, strong vocals. 

[Owen22]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 9:40pm

cliffordbradshaw2 said: "Hannah Waddingham in ALW's "The Beautiful Game":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AdJKthqajE"

If you notice, her song Our Kind of Love uses music he repurposed from the original aborted Phantom sequel. Once the new Phantom sequel came about he removed the melody and song from The Beautiful Game and again repurposed it as Love Never Dies, the title tune. I saw Hannah Waddington sing this in The Beautiful Game and it will remain one of my greatest theatrical moment memories. Chills. Mega chills. The melody works so much better as an alto belt than in a soprano key.

[James Kerrigan2]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 9:42pm

She was really good as the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium

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[Theatre Fan3]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 11:04pm

I too was lucky enough to see her in the original cast of THE BEAUTIFUL GAME in the West End.  Her performance was, and still is, at the top of my list of all time greats.  Such a moving and powerful show.  I really wish it it would be revived with the OUR KIND OF LOVE number put back in.  I don't care if it was repurposed for LOVE NEVER DIES it's still a haunting and beautful addition to this show as well.  Here is a live performance of the song that she did for some tv show.

 

[Theatre Fan3]

Posted: 8/14/21 at 11:07pm

And here is the official music video that was released for OUR KIND OF LOVE.

 

[Martijn-j]

Posted: 8/15/21 at 1:47am

And before there was Our Kind of Love the melody had already been used as The Heart Is Slow to Learn, performed by Kiri Te Kenawa.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 8/15/21 at 4:23am

Martijn-j said: "And before there was Our Kind of Love the melody had already been used as The Heart Is Slow to Learn, performed by Kiri Te Kenawa."

And by Elaine Paige at ALW's RAH birthday concert

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 8/15/21 at 12:38pm

I was lucky enough to see her in THE BEAUTIFUL GAME in London. She blew the roof off of the theatre. I went back the following night and lightning definitely struck again!

[Theatre Fan3]

Posted: 8/18/21 at 4:58pm

Just ran across this documentary on the creation of THE BEAUTIFUL GAME ... very interesting and includes great footage of Hannah rehearsing OUR KIND OF LOVE.  Also, good footage of Josie Walker for those who are fans of hers from EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE.

 

[mattmarkowski99]

Posted: 8/18/21 at 5:37pm

If "The Devil Wears Prada" adaptation does well and makes it way to London, I think she'd be a fabulous Miranda.