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re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ...

Posted by: LegitOnce 11:28 am EST 01/20/15
In reply to: Don't flame me for suggesting this ... - PatrickHSF 10:29 am EST 01/20/15

Dolly, maybe. (You'd have to interpolate a line or two about how she was born in Oklahoma.) Mrs. Sally Adams, certainly. But not Mame: too much hinges on the character's sophistication and insideriness as a New Yorker.


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re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ...

Posted by: MikeR 02:05 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ... - LegitOnce 11:28 am EST 01/20/15

Agreed. She has to be convincing as a Connecticut WASP, or else the scene with the Uptons makes no sense. At this point in her life, I don't think Reba could ever believably play anything other than the Arkansas gal she is in real life.


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re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ...

Posted by: mermaniac 12:49 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ... - LegitOnce 11:28 am EST 01/20/15

Yes, Sally Adams; Tyne played her as sort of a Texas gal, too.


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re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ...

Posted by: PlayWiz 10:59 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ... - mermaniac 12:49 pm EST 01/20/15

Reba could probably be a wonderful Miss Mona in "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" as well. Love the "Destry" idea; it's a fine score which deserves to be heard more often.


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One state up, actually

Posted by: AC126748 02:34 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: Don't flame me for suggesting this ... - mermaniac 12:49 pm EST 01/20/15

Sally Adams is from Oklahoma ("I was born on a thousand acres of Oklahama land..."). The character is based on Perle Mesta, whose father made his money in Oklahoma oil.


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re: One state up, actually

Posted by: jrjr 02:04 am EST 01/21/15
In reply to: One state up, actually - AC126748 02:34 pm EST 01/20/15

Actually what happened at the time was that Reba got her series commitment and wasn't available to do the planned TV version to everyone's disappointment. Although she was a great Annie she was a very disappointing Nellie Forbush at the Carnegie Hall concert, holding the script up over her face for every number except for Honey Bun which she did in costume and was terrific in that.


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re: One state up, actually

Posted by: JohnDunlop 05:50 pm EST 01/21/15
In reply to: re: One state up, actually - jrjr 02:04 am EST 01/21/15

I must be the only person who liked Reba more in the "South Pacific" concert than "Annie Get Your Gun."

Perhaps I did not mind her not knowing the lines or the songs so much because I was sitting in the highest balcony at Carnegie Hall. It was still obvious, but less important sitting so far away.

Also I believe "South Pacific" is a better musical.


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