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| re: Speaking of Auntie Mame....see below | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 11:02 am EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: Speaking of Auntie Mame....see below - winters 09:46 am EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| As I've posted a couple of times already, ANNETTE BENING.................with HOLLAND TAYLOR as Vera -- I also suggested the Roundabout, which now seems possible with some double casting, I'm glad someone else has the same idea. I was feeling like a voice in the Widerness. | |
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| re: Speaking of Auntie Mame....see below | |
| Posted by: portenopete 01:17 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Speaking of Auntie Mame....see below - Pokernight 11:02 am EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| Annette Bening is not a bad choice, but Holland Taylor is 75. I'm sure, in a sense, she could "pull it off", but how suspended does our disbelief have to be? In the 1920's and '30s an actress of Taylor's age would have been playing dowagers and duchesses, not hanging off crescent moons. | |
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| re: Speaking of Auntie Mame....see below | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 02:52 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Speaking of Auntie Mame....see below - portenopete 01:17 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| In AUNTIE MAME she would be playing a society lady in "Midsummer Madness", not hanging off a moon. Just saying. | |
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| Thanks for that clarification! | |
| Posted by: portenopete 09:28 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Speaking of Auntie Mame....see below - Pokernight 02:52 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| My ignorance of the play and the movie of the play is showing. Sounds like I may be wrong in thinking an older woman would be unsuitable. | |
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| re: Thanks for that clarification! | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:49 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: Thanks for that clarification! - portenopete 09:28 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| Your ignorance of the musical did show in that it's Mame, not Vera, who hangs off the moon. :) I would agree that it might be a bit much to have the splendid Ms. Taylor as Vera in the play at this point. If anything, I think the play that Vera is seen performing in the play Auntie Mame suggests the need for a slightly younger actress than you may be able to get away with in the musical, where we see her play a lady astronomer in a "terribly modern operetta." Still, actresses often played much older back in the 1920s, and it might be funny to have a Vera of 70 or so playing opposite a leading man of 35 or so in Midsummer Madness. Not that we're terribly likely to see a full-scale revival of either any time soon. Unless Encores!, does the musical (which may or may not count as full-scale). |
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| re: Thanks for that clarification! | |
| Posted by: portenopete 07:53 am EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Thanks for that clarification! - AlanScott 11:49 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| But do we ever see Vera sitting on the moon? I was sure there was a Hirschfeld caricature..... And I would say the way things are going, Encores! is looking as full-scale as you can get, save behemoth sets. |
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