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re: Am I the only one who doesn't like Audra McDonald??

Posted by:	FriendofDorothy 09:15 pm EST 12/07/13
In reply to:	re: Am I the only one who doesn't like Audra McDonald?? - PlayWiz 07:43 pm EST 12/07/13

I love DM, but Wonderful Town was not a highlight for me. Liked Brook Shields just as much, Linda Muggleston even more. As for her vocal problems, I don't think it was vocal stress, I think she had been ill, and made it worse by trying to sing through it. I've been in that situation, and it can take forever to get your voice back.

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re: Am I the only one who doesn't like Audra McDonald??

Posted by:	PlayWiz 09:20 pm EST 12/07/13
In reply to:	re: Am I the only one who doesn't like Audra McDonald?? - FriendofDorothy 09:15 pm EST 12/07/13

I don't think she performed very much after it moved to Broadway. Murphy was great at Encores. Ms. Muggleston went on quite a bit for an extended time once it moved to Broadway, but unfortunately the producers kept Ms. Murphy's illness very hush-hush at the time, very much affecting her performance reputation for a whle. If it was some other sort of illness affecting her energy, that's one thing. But Ruth Sherwood was written for a less than one octave range singer, Rosalind Russell; it's not exactly Cunegonde or Eliza Doolittle, where I could see singers with unsound vocal technique causing vocal damage to themselves.

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