| re: So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer.... | |
| Posted by: | perfectlyfrank 12:37 pm EDT 03/31/14 |
| In reply to: | So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer.... - Rangerette 01:28 am EDT 03/31/14 |
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| It's simply an excuse to cast a "name" without regard to vocal talent. If the creators truly wanted bad singers in the role, they would have limited the number of songs Sally has to sing. There are plenty of good singers who wind up singing in lousy clubs. It's a tough business. Even a brilliant singing Sally could wind up in a lousy club. Why doesn't anybody wonder why an incredibly dynamic M.C. is working in that same lousy club in Berlin? Shouldn't the MC be bad too? Give me a musical where the actors sing. Well. I can suspend my disbelief enough to fill in the rest of the story. I perfectly accepted Liza as Sallyin the film. She certainly might not have made it in a better club for many other reasons than her voice - she was quirky, not pretty, those are enough reasons why she may not have been able to land a job elsewhere. But damn, it was good to hear Liza belt out those tremendous numbers rather than have some tone deaf actress "ACT" her way through the role. If I wanted a non-singing Sally, I'd go see I AM A CAMERA not CABARET. | |
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