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| re: KISS ME, KATE Last Night | |
| Posted by: Snowysdad 09:33 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: KISS ME, KATE Last Night - PlayWiz 01:51 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| The O'Hara/Domingo comparison is a fascinating one, and after the initial shock of something totally unexpected, one I think has a huge amount of validity, at least as concerns Placido Domingo. As stated there were exceptions, such as Otello. His place in history will be from the huge number of roles sung and the length of the career. I'm not sure I'm quite as convinced regarding Ms. O'Hara. There just aren't enough roles out there that play to her talents as a legitimately trained singer, and for sure not all that many of them are worth reviving. She could no doubt sing the heck out of My Fair Lady, but I don't think she would inhabit the role well, acting wise. | |
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| re: KISS ME, KATE Last Night | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:16 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: KISS ME, KATE Last Night - Snowysdad 09:33 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| "I'm not sure I'm quite as convinced regarding Ms. O'Hara. There just aren't enough roles out there that play to her talents as a legitimately trained singer, and for sure not all that many of them are worth reviving. She could no doubt sing the heck out of My Fair Lady, but I don't think she would inhabit the role well, acting wise." She inhabited the role extremely well -- accents and all! -- when she played it in the concert version of MFL that was done some years ago by the New York Philharmonic, with Kelsey Grammer as an excellent Higgins. I'm going to have to find out if there is any video or audio record of that performance (at the Lincoln Center LIbrary!), because it was quite wonderful. (For the record, as I remember, only a small amount of dialogue was included in the performance, but whatever was there, Kelli and everyone else handled beautifully.) |
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| Agreed! | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 06:21 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: KISS ME, KATE Last Night - Michael_Portantiere 11:16 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| She was terrific. Directed by James Brennan, if I recall Also, for what it’s worth, I remember it being basically a full and virtually complete production. I certainly remember a running time of 2:45 or so, if not 3 hours outright. It’s possible they made some minor trims to the book... but it felt, played and was staged as FAR more than a concert production, closer to the NYPhil Sweeney Todd or Company, or what, say, Encores has done over the last decade as opposed to what they started as 25 years ago. |
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| re: Agreed! | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:37 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: Agreed! - ShowGoer 06:21 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
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| "Also, for what it’s worth, I remember it being basically a full and virtually complete production. I certainly remember a running time of 2:45 or so, if not 3 hours outright. It’s possible they made some minor trims to the book... but it felt, played and was staged as FAR more than a concert production, closer to the NYPhil Sweeney Todd or Company, or what, say, Encores has done over the last decade as opposed to what they started as 25 years ago." Thanks, your memory on that is probably much more accurate than mine. I don't remember the running time being that long, and I was just thinking back that they probably wouldn't have done most of the dialogue in a concert setting like that in Avery Fisher, but I guess they did :-) Yes, James Brennan directed the show -- I was glad that, some time later, I got to tell him in person how much I loved it. And I should have mentioned that Charles Kimbrough was perfection as Pickering. |
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