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re: Disagree on the look of GIGI

Posted by:	*MarloManners** 09:54 am EDT 05/08/15
In reply to:	Disagree on the look of GIGI - jimvar1 03:18 am EDT 05/08/15

Actually most of the songs in this 2015 "Gigi" were in the 1973 "Gigi" on Broadway. There is one 1973 new songs "The Earth and Other Minor Things" a solo for Gigi that the 2015 production dispensed with (it's a tuneless dog on the OBCR). "The Letter" and "Toujours" (Liane's operetta solo) seem to be new to the show. But all of these songs sound better sung live onstage than they do on the 1973 OBCR. Also Yvonne de Bray in the 1949 French film is the very quintessence of the matronly French landlady and is not as soigné as Victoria Clark is in the production. (Colette herself would have been consulted about every aspect of that film) Mamita was never on the same level as Alicia as a courtesan - either in looks or income and has long given up pretensions of glamour. Clark needs an apron in the last scene of Act I and some simple shirtwaist with long striped skirt get-ups. Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington)

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