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re: So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer....

Posted by: sf 04:49 pm EDT 03/31/14
In reply to: re: So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer.... - Michael_Portantiere 11:11 am EDT 03/31/14
Actually, I've said as much elsewhere, more than once, in posts with my full name attached to them. And it's not, I'm afraid, simply a snide comment, it's a conclusion drawn from having watched a few of her live performances, including a horror of an evening at 'The Goodbye Girl' which is still, more than twenty years later, the single laziest, sloppiest, most unprofessional performance I've seen in a so-called professional production - she wandered around the stage as if she was on tranquilisers, ducked a couple of big notes, paid apparently no attention at all to things like phrasing and breath control, mumbled her dialogue, and didn't even try to maintain eye contact with any of her colleagues. When a few hundred people have paid good money to watch you perform, the *least* you can do is look as though you want to be there. That night, she couldn't be bothered, and that's just not good enough.

And then there's the 'Song and Dance' recording, on which - once again - phrasing and breath control appear to be alien concepts to her, the 'Anyone Can Whistle' concert album, on which she's just plain *bad*, and... well, you get the picture. Now, granted, a lot of people like her a lot more than I do, but I assure you the comment wasn't simple bitchiness. She earned it, fair and square. As far as I'm concerned, the Empress isn't wearing any clothes.


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