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re: Brantley reviews "The Visit."

Posted by:	AnObserver 07:51 pm EDT 08/08/14
In reply to:	Brantley reviews "The Visit." - kieran 11:30 pm EDT 08/07/14

I think I will skip reading the review. But I'll tell you C. Rivera is NOT the right actress to play the role. Needs someone with more depth and heft. (Rivera was great as Liza's mother in The Rink, but not The Visit.) I know that Ingrid Bergman, in the movie version of The Visit, wanted to play the character as a woman falling apart. She wanted to pull off her wig on camera, pull out false teeth, etc. This would have been close to the right approach. But the producers convinced her that her Old Hollywood glamour style was still appropriate, and so she gave in to that. It really is too bad that Lansbury didn't get to do this part. So they've ended up with Chita. V. Clark or D. Murphy or B. Walsh or LuPone would have been the wiser choice.

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Thread:	re: Brantley reviews "The Visit." - LegitOnce 09:37 am EDT 08/09/14 WOW...have you seen her in the show!!!! - actor103 12:06 am EDT 08/09/14 (1) re: WOW...have you seen her in the show!!!! - BruceinIthaca 12:40 am EDT 08/11/14 re: Brantley reviews "The Visit." - Glitter 07:59 pm EDT 08/08/14 (3) re: Brantley reviews "The Visit." - AnObserver 09:12 pm EDT 08/08/14 (2) re: Brantley reviews "The Visit." - robert_j 10:38 pm EDT 08/08/14 (1) re: Brantley reviews "The Visit." - PlayWiz 11:35 pm EDT 08/08/14

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