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Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm

Posted by: OJaffee 05:47 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Next Season at Encores - jmill 01:03 pm EDT 05/10/15




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re: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm

Posted by: MarkBearSF 09:21 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm - OJaffee 05:47 pm EDT 05/10/15

Emily Skinner was delightful in as Leona in San Francisco last Summer.


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Ken Wattanabbe as Leona Samish! nm

Posted by: Glamourboy 08:45 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm - OJaffee 05:47 pm EDT 05/10/15

n/m


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re: Ken Wattanabbe as Leona Samish! nm

Posted by: PlayWiz 08:57 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Ken Wattanabbe as Leona Samish! nm - Glamourboy 08:45 pm EDT 05/10/15

Why not have him as Henry Higgins giving elocution lessons in "My Fair Lady"! :-)


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Jane Lynch as Leona Samish...

Posted by: jimvar1 08:36 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm - OJaffee 05:47 pm EDT 05/10/15

and some other actress as Roberta de Rossi. LOL!!


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Heather Headley as Leona Samish! nm

Posted by: theaterisok 07:56 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm - OJaffee 05:47 pm EDT 05/10/15

Can we please get some diversified thinking on this board?!


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Klea Blackhurst as Leona Samish!

Posted by: PlayWiz 08:25 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Heather Headley as Leona Samish! nm - theaterisok 07:56 pm EDT 05/10/15

Let's see the Ethel Merman energy as Leona, maybe like after she parted ways with Ernest Borgnine.


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re: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm

Posted by: Alcindoro 07:44 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm - OJaffee 05:47 pm EDT 05/10/15

There's a repressed, self-pitying quality to Leona, a bitterness she wears like a shield before she learns her lessons the hard way and earns some of our sympathy. I've never seen Menzel do anything that convinced me she has the acting skills to handle such a complex but sparingly written role. Certainly not in the pared-down script of an Encores! presentation.


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Shades of Samish

Posted by: MarkBearSF 09:37 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: Idina Menzel as Leona Samish! nm - Alcindoro 07:44 pm EDT 05/10/15

Amongst the challenges is conveying this suspicious, pinched outlook while still remaining appealing and still being a bit positively agog.

These days, an additional aspect to that challenge is that the wariness is considered a positive in the current world, so without seeming too contemporary, the actress needs to convey the cost of that wariness.


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