| the original Eliza was 49 / Ambrose & Benanti look nowhere near "40" on stage |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 06:14 pm EDT 08/23/18 |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:08 pm EDT 08/23/18 |
| In reply to: re: Laura Benanti as Eliza - NewtonUK 12:19 pm EDT 08/23/18 |
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Neither Benanti nor Ambrose look 40 on stage or in person even ... and neither look like what a 40 year old poor street flower seller would have looked like in 1913. So let's stop assuming that they are meant to be playing or taken as their real actress age when on stage.
I could believe either actress with make-up and on stage as 25-30 (Ambrose just has a young looking face - Benanti maybe not as young but still quite young looking). Yes that's older than 19 or 20, but it's not 40. If they were playing 40... they'd be much more wore and haggard in appearance and posture than how they appear or perform. It's presumably impossible that both women don't look vastly younger in person and on stage than the original actress who played the role for Shaw.
Shaw wrote it for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who was 47 at the time he wrote it, and when she originated the role on stage she was 49.
And yes, none of them look or sound as young as 20 year old Julie Andrew did. That's just how it is.
And Audrey Hepburn was 35 in the film, and that's how Lerner & Loewe allowed most of the world their perhaps one chance of seeing Eliza in MFL, so clearly they were okay with it. |
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