| re: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:01 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: Parallel observation: "Larger than Life" performers like Channing, Merman even LuPone. Do we still cultivate them? - Marlo*Manners 04:29 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| I don't have a good enough ear to always be sure, but I think that friends have told me that Channing did not sing in lower keys in 1995 than she had in 1964. The voice had deteriorated and that perhaps made her sound like she was singing lower in terms of vocal timbre, but the original keys for her (which I think most of the successor Dollys did not use) were so low that going lower was almost not even an option. :) But I may be wrong, and perhaps she did use lower keys on those late tours and the last Broadway run for her. Did you see her on Broadway or on the pre-Broadway tour? 1994 suggests that you saw her on the pre-Broadway tour, but I wonder if you meant to type 1995. If you did see her on Broadway, I'm surprised to hear that the conductor was having trouble with her backphrasing since she was, except on nights when she wasn't well (which started to happen during that last Broadway run), incredibly consistent in the role. She was not the only Dolly to backphrase a lot. Miller never played Dolly on Broadway or on one of the major national tours, but she did play it on a Kenley tour. There was a wide range of performer types among Channing's successors on Broadway and on the tours of the original production, and I think some were probably not especially larger than life, while others decidedly were. Anyway, it's been years, I think, since we've had the talk here about the rarity nowadays of eccentric performers of the type we used to have. We used to have it a lot. |
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