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| re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? | |
| Last Edit: Marlo*Manners 05:03 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 04:55 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? - JereNYC 04:47 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Actually Ginger Rogers, Ann Miller, Martha Raye and even Betty Grable had been on Broadway slightly before or during their careers in Hollywood in the thirties and forties. Obviously Merman, Martin and Pearl Bailey were almost exclusively Broadway stars. However, Jere you are right in the main: they were more famous as stars of golden age Hollywood musicals. I would also mention that the 1970's was when I think that old school big glamorous style went out of style. "I AM big, it's the movies (musicals, plays, TV shows) that got SMALL!!" The 70's stars were very different from the glamorous sixties stars. 60's stars like Jane Fonda changed their look and style in the 70's. More naturalistic, more human, less mannered. Lady Gaga has been suggested as a possible Mame (she wouldn't do it - she would want to do something original and her own if she wanted to be on Broadway). Pop stars and stand-up comediennes can be larger than life these days. (Also, I apologize to Kristin Chenoweth for mispelling her first name for the 1000th time) Marlo Manners (Lady B) |
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| re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:14 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:04 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? - Marlo*Manners 04:55 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Why wouldn't Lady Gaga consider a revival? She's doing the latest retread of "A Star Is Born" in the movies. Btw, how come nobody has ever recast that old chestnut and made Vicki Lester into Victor Lester and made Norman Maine into Norma Maine? I think reversing the sexes might be at least an interesting spin on this oft-told story, having an over-the-hill lady star help a newcomer male. Mary Martin and Ethel Merman, had they continued, perhaps might have done the musicals that Lauren Bacall did, among some other things. There might have been a musical version of "Arsenic and Old Lace" written for these two ladies, along with stories of madcap grandmas, and a musical "Harold and Maude", among other kinds of things. I still think if it were musicalized well, Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone (if she could still crawl after her surgery) would be incredible as Jane and Blanche, respectively, in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane". I've heard the existing musical isn't so hot, but there are various versions of properties like "Phantom", "La Boheme", etc. so you never know if someone else might try to attempt a new treatment. I could just visualize Bernadette doing an equivalent placed song for "I've Written a Letter to Daddy"! |
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| re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:53 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? - PlayWiz 05:04 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Norma Maine sounds like a role the late Bobbi Adler (RIP Debbie!) SHOULD have played! | |
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