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| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:55 am EST 11/22/24 | |
| In reply to: re: AUDRA/GYPSY - Delvino 09:37 am EST 11/22/24 | |
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| I've thought about this every time I've read that... and I have to say, for such a smart person and brilliant actor, not to mention someone who is friends with at least one person who's famously played Rose on Broadway... I find that to be a surprisingly, almost alarmingly simplistic take on Rose. I've never been cast to play Rose, and I haven't read the script, but without either of those I have never seen her as a monster. Does anyone who loves this show or thinks of it as one of the best musicals ever written see it or listen to it and walk away with the take that Rose is a monster? You shouldn't need have been cast and reading the script a hundred times to detect the layers and nuance of her character and story and this play. I've always been a huge Audra fan, and I'm very excited to see her in this, but I can't pretend that didn't always strike me as notably odd and worrisome. To balance it out, I'll say the same is true about something Patti said about Joanne... that until she did Marianne's production with the gender switching, she never got Joanne, it never made sense to her, specifically the scene in the club. Well, for me, the club scene is one of the huge things that *does not work* in Marianne's version of the show, and that actively misunderstanding the show, the point of the scene, the characters. Coping out and having Joanne offer Bobbi her husband rather than asking when she and Bobbi will have sex... you couldn't more quickly tell me you don't understand the scene/play. (same is true for Amy becoming a gay man, it utterly sabotages the extremely important "marry me" scene that ends act 1 and leads into "Marry Me A Little") And I consider Patti a very smart and brilliant actor too. |
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