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re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history?

Posted by: perfectlyfrank 01:04 pm EST 01/17/14
In reply to: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history? - Greaser217 09:47 am EST 01/17/14

All three principal roles? Hmmm...Roxie, Velma and Billy are the three principal roles. But, despite the hyperbole, Neuwirth's feat is certainly rare.


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re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history?

Posted by: FriendofDorothy 05:01 pm EST 01/17/14
In reply to: re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history? - perfectlyfrank 01:04 pm EST 01/17/14

Agreed. I think people are just reacting to the relative novelty of the situation. It is rare for one actress (not counting swings and understudies) to have played the three biggest (female) roles in a show. Rarer still that it is the same production, years later. Rarer still that said actress won a Tony for the role she is most identified with on stage.

I always thought it would be fun to do a Gypsy (probably a concert), where the strippers would be Daly (Miss Electra), Peters (Tessie Tura) and LuPone (Mazeppa). Now THAT would be rare.

Back to the topic, though, I think it's wonderful that she's doing it, and certainly a substantial accomplishment.


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re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history?

Posted by: SingersRMusicians2 02:06 pm EST 01/17/14
In reply to: re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history? - perfectlyfrank 01:04 pm EST 01/17/14

Wait another 3-4 years, and she'll come back as Billy as well .


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re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history?

Posted by: sloughie 05:45 pm EST 01/19/14
In reply to: re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history? - SingersRMusicians2 02:06 pm EST 01/17/14

She did play Billy in the Broadway Backwards concert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKYCa0akqd8

Link Bebe as Billy

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re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history?

Posted by: SingersRMusicians2 06:43 pm EST 01/19/14
In reply to: re: Bebe's Hat Trick is Broadway history? - sloughie 05:45 pm EST 01/19/14

Thanks. I never saw that clip. Wish I could see more of it.


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