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At least Carrie Underwood isn't playing Helen Sinclair!

Posted by: PlayWiz 12:32 am EST 12/06/13

I'm actually rather surprised that there aren't that many comments talking about Marin Mazzie's being cast. I wonder if her role will be large enough in the new musical to be considered leading. She must have really impressed Woody Allen with her auditions, since he passed on Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and plenty of other top talent.

I thought Mazzie was very funny in "Kiss Me, Kate", and her singing in that and "Ragtime" was wonderful.


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re: At least Carrie Underwood isn't playing Helen Sinclair!

Posted by: BruceinIthaca 12:39 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: At least Carrie Underwood isn't playing Helen Sinclair! - PlayWiz 12:32 am EST 12/06/13

I think we are still recovering from the livecast tonight. And bite your tongue!

(I agree about Mazzie--I first saw her as a replacement for Karen Mason in "And the World Goes Round." I recall being disappointed to see that Mason had left, but I wasn't disappointed after the first fifteen minutes. I'd gotten to see Mason once in it--and she was great--but Mazzie made the songs her own.)


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re: At least Carrie Underwood isn't playing Helen Sinclair!

Posted by: FriendofDorothy 02:49 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: re: At least Carrie Underwood isn't playing Helen Sinclair! - BruceinIthaca 12:39 am EST 12/06/13

I'm thrilled for her. I think she'll be great in the part. Woody Allen and his team are more than familiar with Patti and Bernie and Betty and their talents. I think he trod them out to audition for curiosity. It is better not to have an actress with a known "personality" in the part. An established Diva (in the public mind) would just come across as themselves in the part. MM will be a blank slate with fresher chances at humor and pathos. I am a little worried about whether Stroman can direct this kind of humor. The laughs in BOB are very, very different from those in The Producers.


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I still say ......

Posted by: jdm 06:23 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: re: At least Carrie Underwood isn't playing Helen Sinclair! - FriendofDorothy 02:49 am EST 12/06/13

she was funny and marvelous in the Actor Fund benefit of On the 20th Century a few years ago. I am so happy to have her cast in this!

Jim


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And I still agree with that 1000%. What a fun evening that was

Posted by: Esther 10:51 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: I still say ...... - jdm 06:23 am EST 12/06/13

and much of that fun was because of her performance that night.


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re: I still say ......

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:48 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: I still say ...... - jdm 06:23 am EST 12/06/13

Absolutely, jdm.


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It may be better not to have an with a known "personality" in the part...

Posted by: GabbyGerard 03:18 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: re: At least Carrie Underwood isn't playing Helen Sinclair! - FriendofDorothy 02:49 am EST 12/06/13

...but wouldn't it be better to have an actress with SOME personality?


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Oops...the subject of my post should have been...

Posted by: GabbyGerard 03:29 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: It may be better not to have an with a known "personality" in the part... - GabbyGerard 03:18 am EST 12/06/13

..."It may be better not to have an ACTRESS with a known "personality" in the part..."

Sure is anticlimactic when you make a mistake. Like casting Marin Mazzie.


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