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| No one has come close. (Has Kaitlin Hopkins ever played the role?) | |
| Last Edit: GrumpyMorningBoy 11:09 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 11:06 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? - dooey 07:51 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| I've seen INTO THE WOODS soooo many times and I've never seen a Baker's Wife who captured the balance as effortlessly as Ms. Gleason did. The ONLY person who I think would have been capable was Kaitlin Hopkins, who brought a very similar tart charm to her role as the mother in BAT BOY. She's now the head of a very successful up-and-coming musical theater department at Arizona State. - GMB |
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| re: No one has come close. (Has Kaitlin Hopkins ever played the role?) | |
| Posted by: superior_exterior 11:59 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: No one has come close. (Has Kaitlin Hopkins ever played the role?) - GrumpyMorningBoy 11:06 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| I've always heard that it was down to her and Kerry O'Malley for the 2002 Broadway revival. I would have loved to see her do it, she does seem ideal for landing many of the laughs Gleason earned that subsequent actresses have not. Based on a lot of Lapine's directorial choices for that revival (let's not do the thing that worked last time because we did that already) my guess is he agreed with you that Hopkins would have succeeded in a vein similar to Gleason. | |
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| re: No one has come close. (Has Kaitlin Hopkins ever played the role?) | |
| Posted by: theaterbear 12:44 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: No one has come close. (Has Kaitlin Hopkins ever played the role?) - superior_exterior 11:59 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| You've heard right. It was between her and O'Malley (and I believe they were auditioning as pairs and Kevin Chamberlin was Kaitlin's Baker). They deemed Hopkins to be too much like Gleason in the role. Which is apparently what everybody but them wanted. | |
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