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| Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? | |
| Posted by: bobby2 01:51 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| She really got raves for Steaming. I remember being shocked as a kid that she won a Tony for a flop play. I didn't know that was possible. (actually come to think of it, it is kind of rare.) | |
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| re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? | |
| Posted by: BigM 08:09 pm EDT 04/06/18 | |
| In reply to: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - bobby2 01:51 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| I saw her in Hurlyburly, and she was spectacular. It was an all star cast - William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel - directed by Mike Nichols, and she completely stole the show out from under them. She played this very drugged out, feisty woman and she was brilliant. | |
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| re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? | |
| Posted by: MFeingold 09:02 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - bobby2 01:51 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| She really deserved those raves. The play was an odd and not very interesting one - a British import on a subject of little interest to Americans: the disappearance of public bath houses for women (which dated from a time when the poor had no indoor plumbing). But it was very well directed and had an entirely first-rate cast: Pauline Flanagan, Polly Rowles, Lisa Persky, Linda Thorson, Margaret Whitton. And Ivey - brash, funny, fierce and completely real. A towering performance. |
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| "Steaming" was authentic and engaging in London, if admittedly slim. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 08:47 am EDT 04/06/18 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 08:45 am EDT 04/06/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - MFeingold 09:02 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| I remember it well in the West End. A relative unknown at the time named Brenda Blethwyn was extraordinary. I do think it's a rare play (then) by a female playwright, and whatever the liabilities, Dunn's voice -- and POV about class, privilege and gender -- is in the storytelling. | |
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| re: "Steaming" was authentic and engaging in London, if admittedly slim. | |
| Posted by: bobby2 08:38 pm EDT 04/06/18 | |
| In reply to: "Steaming" was authentic and engaging in London, if admittedly slim. - Delvino 08:45 am EDT 04/06/18 | |
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| Blethyn played Ivey's part? Who else was in it? I couldn't find it online. |
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| re: "Steaming" was authentic and engaging in London, if admittedly slim. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:04 pm EDT 04/06/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Steaming" was authentic and engaging in London, if admittedly slim. - bobby2 08:38 pm EDT 04/06/18 | |
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| No, she was the mentally challenged character (she was very young). | |
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| re: "Steaming" was authentic and engaging in London, if admittedly slim. | |
| Posted by: bobby2 01:17 am EDT 04/08/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "Steaming" was authentic and engaging in London, if admittedly slim. - Delvino 09:04 pm EDT 04/06/18 | |
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| do you know who originated Ivey's role in London? | |
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| I've seen them both ..... | |
| Posted by: jdm 07:06 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - bobby2 01:51 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| Steaming and Hurley Burley and she was terrific in both. She is good in everything (I think The Heiress was her last Tony-nominated show). Jim |
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| re: I've seen them both ..... | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:02 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: I've seen them both ..... - jdm 07:06 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| I saw her when she went on as a understudy for Jane Lapotaire in "Piaf", and she was excellent! I think she used a Cockney accent, and she was very good indeed, including her singing. I saw her in "Follies", but unfortunately her voice couldn't hand the climax of "Losing My Mind" in that rather lackluster (but pink) production. | |
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| re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? | |
| Posted by: TheHarveyBoy 06:05 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - bobby2 01:51 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| I saw STEAMING and worked on HURLYBURLY. She is so good that her performances were remembered long after the plays closed (actually in the case of HURLYBURLY, Judy left on December 31, 1984 and the play ran another 5 months with Christine Baranski in the part). She gives an honest performance without histrionics. | |
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| so both her Tonys came for past performances. | |
| Posted by: bobby2 10:14 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - TheHarveyBoy 06:05 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| Steaming closed and she'd left Hurlyburly months before. Interesting. I doubt that could happen nowadays. | |
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| re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? | |
| Posted by: Dale 08:42 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - TheHarveyBoy 06:05 am EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| I've seen every Broadway show she's appeared in since "Bedroom Farce" in 1979... I did miss "Park Your Car In The Harvard Yard" and miss I had missed "Voices In The Dark". She was so game in "Steaming"... standing there nude and delivering funny lines. Brave performance! Not a fan of "Hurlyburly"... just too mean I felt, but it has been decades since I saw it last! |
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| re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 09:05 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - Dale 08:42 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| She was so good in George Furth's "Precious Sons." I'm sorry I haven't seen her on stage more often. | |
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| re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? | |
| Posted by: larry13 01:59 pm EDT 04/06/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see Judith Ivey's Tony performances? - TheOtherOne 09:05 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| She was also wonderful as Ann Landers in THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS off-Broadway, one of the very very few one-person plays I thought really worked and thus I enjoyed. | |
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