| re: Digression, but not: diagetic vs. non-diagetic moments in musicals: the "Cabaret" revisal at 54 |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 09:20 am EDT 06/29/17 |
| In reply to: re: Digression, but not: diagetic vs. non-diagetic moments in musicals: the "Cabaret" revisal at 54 - Michael_Portantiere 05:33 pm EDT 06/28/17 |
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Carlotta was in the same edition of the Follies that Phyllis and Sally were in, right? That would have made her probably in her late teens or early 20's at the time, so there's no way she would have been singing "I'm Still Here" in any form.
I've always assumes that Carlotta's song would have been some kind of torchy ballad that she just couldn't handle at the time. I imagine some kind of melodramatic turn that audiences found ridiculous coming from someone so young and pretty. So...back to the chorus for you, MIssy.
Just getting into the story of Carlotta, it's interesting to me that either she was plucked out of the chorus to sing this song and then put back when it got cut, or that she was hired to do a featured number in the show and, instead of getting fired when that didn't work out, she got put into the chorus line. I don't know how the real Follies and revues worked. Is either of these scenarios something that might have happened? Since we know that Carlotta has always had a healthy sex life, I wonder if she employed her skills in that arena to get herself out of the chorus. |
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