| 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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