Threaded Order Chronological Order
| Temperamentally, she's more of an Irene Molloy, no matter the age. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:32 am EDT 05/28/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Kristin Chenoweth - Thom915 12:19 pm EDT 05/27/18 | |
|
|
|
| It's not that she couldn't land comedy and the songs. But Chenoweth just feels like a maturing ingenue. It's not a negative, it's a casting type concern. I believe Peters would've been far less persuasive at age 49 than she is now at 70, but we'll never know. I can see Chenoweth as a definitive Irene, and her music is just ideal for the Chenoweth voice. That's not a random issue. Dolly's size and grandeur just seem still not in the toolbox for this gifted performer. More realistically: If she played it now, it would be a feat but not necessarily something a large number of people would want to pay top dollar to see. | |
| reply to this message |
| re: Temperamentally, she's more of an Irene Molloy, no matter the age. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:22 am EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: Temperamentally, she's more of an Irene Molloy, no matter the age. - Delvino 09:32 am EDT 05/28/18 | |
|
|
|
| IMO - and I know I've said this before - I think Chenoweth is really a Minnie Fay. She could manage Irene, but to me she's much more of a natural Minnie. But of course I don't tend to think she'd be interested in the role. | |
| reply to this message |
| Age and temperament and life experience: Zeta-Jones' Desiree. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 12:19 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Temperamentally, she's more of an Irene Molloy, no matter the age. - Chromolume 01:22 am EDT 05/29/18 | |
|
|
|
| This Chenoweth discussion takes me back to the Zeta-Jones casting in "Night Music." I felt she was too young -- not in chronological age, but in presentation -- and it made Desiree's dilemma weaker. Johns, originally, may have been close to the same age, but suggested a very different life experience and world-weariness. Many others disagreed. (The stakes were raised when Peters went in, and I loved her Desiree.) The Chenoweth Dolly idea is easily a version of the same conversation. | |
| reply to this message | reply to first message |
Time to render: 0.010175 seconds.