| 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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