| re: You raise an excellent point regarding Proof. | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 03:26 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: You raise an excellent point regarding Proof. - GabbyGerard 02:33 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
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| Heche was the only one of the three leading ladies in PROOF that I saw who really convinced me that Catherine might be losing her mind, just as her father did. I never really believed that as a possibility with Parker and Leigh. I wonder if she was able to draw on her own experience with mental illness to really get the nuance of not only the possible mental illness in the character but also the shifting between sane and possibly insane. I'd been disappointed with Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance only in that she seemed to be giving a carbon copy of Mary Louise Parker's and I don't think I'd ever seen one headliner replace another without really doing something of her own with the role. It could be that Leigh was directed to do this, because, when she replaced Natasha Richardson as Sally in the CABARET revival, she created her own character much as one might expect. I had no idea what to expect from Heche, who I'd thought of a lightweight movie star, which she was for about 5 minutes in the 1990's. To be honest, Heche was most famous for her brief relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. But she reinvented Catherine from the ground up and, had she originated the role, she might also have won that Tony. I wish she'd done more work on Broadway, especially since, as stated above, I did not care for her performance as Lily Garland. By the way, I saw Heche opposite the Hal of Neil Patrick Harris, who was superb and had great chemistry with her. NPH was the primary reason I went to see the play a third time. I wanted to see how putting a star name in as Hal affected the balance of the play. Turns out, it didn't. Harris fit right into the ensemble, maybe because he and Heche had likely rehearsed together since they went in at the same time. And it turns out it would have been difficult for anyone to overshadow Heche's Catherine. |
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