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re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical?

Posted by: MikeR 08:50 pm EDT 05/06/15
In reply to: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical? - AnyaS 08:47 pm EDT 05/06/15

She wouldn't sing the nominated song from Chicago on the Oscars because of crippling stage fright. Makes Broadway seem unlikely.


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re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical?

Posted by: TheOtherOne 09:55 pm EDT 05/06/15
In reply to: re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical? - MikeR 08:50 pm EDT 05/06/15

I don't know. She also did some gutsy if more folk-rock singing in a movie called My Own Love Song. Singing one song on the Oscars with the whole world watching can actually be more intimidating than singing songs you have rehearsed in the context of a show in which you are performing. Plus, she was a huge star at the time of Chicago. She isn't working nearly as much any more and she might not be able to afford to have stage fright.

I loved her as Roxie. I thought she was the best performer in the film, even if her co-star won an Oscar and she didn't. I would love to see her on Broadway, whether she's in a musical or a play.


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re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical?

Posted by: AnyaS 02:12 am EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical? - TheOtherOne 09:55 pm EDT 05/06/15

Yeah, I agree with you on that. Singing on the Oscars has been unkind to some strong performers. When Kristin Chenoweth sang a song from Enchanted, many in my family groaned because they wanted to hear Amy Adams sing again. I told them they would all change their minds once Chenoweth opened her mouth. And then she sang - poorly. It had to be her worst vocal performance I've ever seen her give. The last note was especially painful.Although my family knows who she is now, they still jokingly give me grief about her performance at that Oscars. What a stinker of a performance. :(
Mike makes a good point about Renee's stage fright. It is such an obvious fact about her that I can't believe I overlooked it.


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Even Madonna ....

Posted by: jdm 01:00 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical? - AnyaS 02:12 am EDT 05/07/15

looked and sounded frightened when she sang at the Oscars.

Jim


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re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical?

Posted by: Alcindoro 07:04 am EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Could you see Renee Zellweger in a Broadway musical? - AnyaS 02:12 am EDT 05/07/15

And who could ever forget (or want to remember) Ann Reinking's "Against All Odds" at the Oscars?


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