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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 10:15 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
| In reply to: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - BillyG 10:03 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| Sutton yes, Kristin no | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Circlevet 11:52 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Pokernight 10:15 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| Chenoweth is becoming a parody of herself. | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:42 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Circlevet 11:52 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| Chenoweth is becoming a parody of herself. Though I do respect her obvious talent, I have to say I also think that the above statement is very old news. I've been thinking that for years. She became that long ago, singing talent notwithstanding. (That said, I did truly enjoy her a lot in the NBC Hairspray. Sometimes her scenery chewing does work appropriately well, lol.) |
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| Ages. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 12:56 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Circlevet 11:52 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| She's also at least twenty-five years too old for the role. (Sutton can still pull off 30, I think. Just.) | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:22 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Pokernight 10:15 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| Chenoweth is pushing 50, Foster is in her early 40s. Neither looks her age (Foster trades on that on TV), but the show cries out for a viable age difference, a certain youthful grounding in Eileen. Foster might be a Ruth right now, but beyond age, I agree: Chenoweth is not a Ruth. | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: portenopete 12:58 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Delvino 11:22 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| Not meaning to be unkind, but Ms Chenoweth has very visibly gone under the knife to look younger. As always, this has had the effect for me of making her seem older than she is. Sutton Foster looks to me to be unaltered by surgery and could still be very believable as Eileen. Chenoweth as Eileen would be deeply weird. |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Delvino 02:03 pm EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - portenopete 12:58 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
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| Agree fully. Going under the, uh, injection has the same impact as the knife. It creates a kind of immovable mask, invariably turning the forehead into the center of attention on the human face. The opposite of the place actors live: the eyes. It's a terribly cruel irony, as you note, since its magic isn't visible to those of us who see only the work itself. | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:55 pm EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Delvino 02:03 pm EDT 07/14/18 | |
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| Without commenting on the effects of age and/or cosmetic surgery, I would simply say that, while the stage Ruths in both the original comedy (Shirley Booth) and musical (Rosaline Russell) were well into middle-age when they played her, as was Donna Murphy, I've always wondered at that choice. I grew up reading the stories (NOT when they were originally published, I might add!), and a logical gap for me, which I am willing to suspend disbelief for when a great comic actress plays the role, is that it seems as if Ruth has been hanging around Ohio for about a decade or two longer than I would have expected--what's she been doing there all that time? I get that "stage age" is different ("Miss Channing is ageless. Spoken like a press agent," or words to that effect) and it may be that the role calls for a wryness that tends to come for many a little later in life (Eve Arden, Lucille Ball, some of the other great comic "dames"), but I'd like to see the Sherwood sisters played by women in their mid- to late twenties (or at least played AS that age)--we can have a Ruth who is old enough that she really does think she needs to get out of Ohio before she settles into being Catherine Sloper or Leona Samish, but she shouldn't seem one step away from the Geraldine Page character in "Dear Love" or Rosemary in "Picnic." The real ruth moved with Eileen out east when Ruth was about 23. I get that the show isn't documentary, and that stage distance can mediate real age and character age.... | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:04 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Pokernight 10:15 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| I keep thinking that Chenoweth and Menzel should team up again and do Frozen. And I'm not going to let it go. ;-) | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 01:23 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Chromolume 11:04 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| How old do you think these women are, lol? That said, I'd go if they went back into Wicked for 6 months. | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:53 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - KingSpeed 01:23 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
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| To me it's the same result. For Frozen, it would be Chenoweth making the obvious stage pairing (given the success of Wicked) in a show identified with Menzel (for the film and of course for the original "Let It Go"). Age wouldn't matter - it's the pairing of the two actresses that would be the draw. When Merman starred in the original Annie Get Your Gun she was already way too old for the role in literal terms (Oakley was most probably in her early 20's when she married Frank Butler, and still in her teens when she met him), but of course it didn't seem to matter. But for those people coming to see her reprise the role 20 years later in the 1966 revival, this was no longer about the age of the character at all - it was a chance to see Merman do the role again. I think it would be a similar effect in seeing Idina and Kristin team up in a show that allows them to play a love/hate relationship somewhat similar to that in Wicked, regardless of the actress' ages. Like you said, you'd see them if they played college students in Wicked again...;-) |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: portenopete 12:59 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - Chromolume 11:04 pm EDT 07/13/18 | |
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| I think ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is more likely. | |
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| re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 06:47 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I’d love to see Sutton Foster and Kristin Chenowith play isisters in WONDERFUL TOWN - portenopete 12:59 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
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| Foster would be a very viable Ruth. Think 20 for Eileen...…. | |
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