| re: How did Night Music sell with her and Stritch? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:43 am EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: re: How did Night Music sell with her and Stritch? - AlanScott 12:24 am EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| Catherine Zeta-Jones in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC was an event, just like Bette Midler in HELLO, DOLLY!, just on a smaller scale. Here we had an another Oscar-winning actress making her Broadway debut...and in a musical...which is still not a common thing. Midler, at least, had made a career performing live on stage in her own concerts and had previously appeared on Broadway prior to stardom. Zeta-Jones hadn't been on a stage since her days in 42ND STREET in London, long before anyone on these shores had ever heard of her. Peters taking over was also noteworthy because it was the first time she'd ever replaced on Broadway and that she was coming in with Stritch in what we knew was going to be Stritch's last turn on Broadway. I was not alone in thinking that Peters was even better in the role than Zeta-Jones had been and that Desiree really fit her like a glove. Even Stritch's memory issues (which were bad the night I attended) couldn't bring down a wonderful evening. Had Lansbury stayed on to play with Peters, the pairing would likely have been legendary. It's interesting that the production ran for 6 months with Peters and Stritch and I wonder if that's because 6 months was the end of their contracts or if box office fell off enough to close the show. My guess would be that it was the end of the contracts. I wonder if Peters could replicate that success with HELLO, DOLLY!...a six month run would be respectable and, if she could keep receipts in the Donna Murphy $900K/wk vicinity, the production would stay in the black. |
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