| 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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