| She resented Klausner's ambition, a ludicrous hypocrisy. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 06:34 pm EDT 07/04/18 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 06:28 pm EDT 07/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Alternates - Questions - AlanScott 04:34 am EDT 07/04/18 | |
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| The chapter in her memoir is among the most powerful, because LuPone owns her own insecurities, and speaks frankly about the challenge of singing the role 6 times a week. But: What still baffles me is her inability to accept that others have her ambitions. She is oblivious to Klausner's right to want a career, too. Klausner was hired to do her job, which is to cover a role and play it twice a week. LuPone wasn't nailing it, so Klausner did what any young aspiring actor would do: she worked hard(er) to do it well(better). What LuPone couldn't bear: Klausner didn't have her Juilliard background and training, and so was undeserving of such attention, to borrow from Evita's text. Someone was going to breathe down the neck of any actor playing Eva six of the eight performances. In her later years, LuPone couldn't forgive Klausner for simply wanting to be good, and then being good. It's that simple. She might've mellowed and realized that even non-Juilliard professionals are entitled to harness ambition to unprecedented opportunity. LuPone's elitism about her training suggests a perverse, lopsided view of an industry that only cares about what an artist delivers. It's a meritocracy. The audience doesn't judge a performance based on perceptions of educational influence; it's what's on the stage. Period. It stunned me that after decades LuPone called Klausner, "that dancer..." Yeah, Klausner had been in "A Chorus Line." The poor dear. Full disclosure: I saw Klausner at least twice in the role; she was the best act one Eva among all that I saw, and I believe I saw almost all of them (had a friend in the company, joining late the first year). Yeah, LuPone's act 2 was swell, maybe definitive. She never quite mastered the younger Eva to my satisfaction, and Klausner did, effortlessly. LuPone is a great one-of-a-kind star, now, Klausner didn't equal or eclipse her career. It only makes LuPone seem ungenerous at this late date. No perspective; bitter, even after two Tonys. |
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