| I think it must have depended on the day you saw the performance. The night I saw her, she was on fire, got all the notes powerfully and brought depth to the role. I'm also in the somewhat unique position of having seen her do the same role about thirty years earlier in our high school production (which also featured Dan Castellaneta as the Innkeeper--the role I wanted!), when she tore up the stage and outshone our Cervantes/Quixote, who was nonetheless also quite good. I know her voice isn't as strong on the recording as it was in performance, and it is a taxing role, but maybe knowing that ten of her old high school friends, all of whom had either been in the production with her or who had seen her do it, brought something out of her. And this isn't just me waxing nostalgic. |
