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| Posted by: mikem 07:36 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: RIP Jan Maxwell - JAllenC3 05:23 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| This is very sad news. One thing I was always impressed with is that she really elevated roles that she took. A part like the wife in Lend Me a Tenor or the Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang could have been completely unmemorable in another performer's hands, but not with her in the part. I was also always impressed with the physicality she brought to roles. Not that she was running around on stage, but she really inhabited the characters down to their physical gestures. Not a lot of actors pay as much attention to that as she did. I was fortunate enough to meet her at the stage door after Follies, and she was very gracious and kind. I told her that the thing I remembered most about Chitty, 6 years later, was not the car, but the completely deadpan way she said, "Oopsiedaisies" after accidentally shooting one of her henchmen. It was the first time I had ever seen her on stage, and it's still one of the funniest line deliveries I have ever seen. |
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| re: RIP Jan Maxwell | |
| Last Edit: MarjorieMae 09:34 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| Posted by: MarjorieMae 09:22 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: RIP Jan Maxwell - mikem 07:36 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| I'm sure there are many many people who became instant Jan Maxwell from the first time they saw her perform on stage. That's what happened when I saw 16 Wounded. I was fortunate to have seen her in City of Conversation. She saved the best for last. | |
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| re: RIP Jan Maxwell | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 08:26 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: RIP Jan Maxwell - mikem 07:36 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| "One thing I was always impressed with is that she really elevated roles that she took. A part like the wife in Lend Me a Tenor or the Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang could have been completely unmemorable in another performer's hands, but not with her in the part." Absolutely, and this was also true of her performance as Elsa in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I thought she was one of the best things about that production. |
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| re: RIP Jan Maxwell | |
| Posted by: Showtunegal 07:40 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: RIP Jan Maxwell - mikem 07:36 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| I still remember her trying to answer the phone in that role, but her cinnabon hair style was in the way! She was genius. I saw Marc Kudisch belting his heart out this afternoon at Encores! and it brings home the vicissitudes of life--he is still so strong, and she is gone. How tragic; she was so good. | |
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