| She has KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK in every book musical... |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 03:55 pm EST 12/18/17 |
| In reply to: Why isn't Ana Gasteyer a bigger theater person? - JAllenC3 01:46 pm EST 12/17/17 |
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...in which I've seen her perform.
She was by far the best of the four Columbias (Joan Jett, Kristen Lee Kelly, Liz Larsen) I saw in Rocky Horror.
She exhibited the best vocal technique of the various Elphabas whom I've seen in Wicked. Though she was saddled with an excruciatingly unfunny Glinda, she still found moments of gold---both serious (an especially heartbreaking I'm Not That Girl) and comedic (drawing upon her experience as an impressionist with some killer evocations of Margaret Hamilton once Elphaba becomes "wicked").
I know many people found her grating in Roundabout's widely panned Threepenny Opera, but I thought her strident take on Mrs. Peachum as an Ivana Trump was insightful and unforgiving. Her delivery of "The Overwhelming Power of Sex" rivaled LuPone's turn in Sweeney Todd and Sutton Foster's "showing off" for ultimate belting of the season.
I so wish I'd seen her as Fanny in PCLO's Funny Girl. |
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