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| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:43 am EST 03/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana Davila - Pokernight 10:14 am EST 03/06/19 | |
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| Its rare that googling brings up next to nothing on MS Davila. I did read that she joined the company of TWO GENTS a week before opening, going straight into a preview - in her first musical - without much or an rehearsal with the company. In 2005, in accepting an award, Stockard Channing gave a shout out to Ms Davila, who she understudied in TWO GENTS. | |
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| re: Diana Davila | |
| Posted by: winters 11:23 am EST 03/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana Davila - NewtonUK 10:43 am EST 03/06/19 | |
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| Let us not forget that Ms Davila went on to a featured role in Home, Sweet Homer. I saw her in Two Gents and the 15 year old shy boy that I was....went back stage as I wanted to meet her. She was lovely. She introduced me to her three co-stars and sat me down for a very nice conversation. Aside from a small role in a Woody Allen film.... I've no idea as to what she went on to do after HSH.....admittedly that could have put anyone off a life in the theater. |
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| re: Diana Davila | |
| Posted by: TheHarveyBoy 12:11 pm EST 03/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana Davila - winters 11:23 am EST 03/06/19 | |
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| My recollection is that Carla Pinza played Julia in the Delacorte production of "Two Gents." For whatever reason, she wasn't asked to repeat her role on Broadway (although the other three leads were) and was replaced by Latina singer La Lupe. La Lupe was fired late in rehearsals. I heard her singing was amazing but that her English speaking was often indecipherable. In comes Diana Davila, the complete opposite of La Lupe. La Lupe was a firebrand and Diana was merely a candle in the wind (to borrow a phrase about another Diana). She was sweet but forgettable. | |
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| re: Diana Davila | |
| Posted by: chrisampm 12:42 am EST 03/07/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana Davila - TheHarveyBoy 12:11 pm EST 03/06/19 | |
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| Forgettable to you maybe. I saw the show - my second in a Broadway house when I was in single digits and nearly 50 years old, I still remember her. My brother was so smitten he arranged to interview her for our grammar school newspaper. The OCR captures much of what made her indelible to me. Beguiling. | |
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| re: Diana Davila | |
| Posted by: BigM 01:18 pm EST 03/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana Davila - TheHarveyBoy 12:11 pm EST 03/06/19 | |
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| I didn't find her forgettable at all; I thought she was delightful, and very funny. But John Simon did have it in for her. He wasn't a big fan of the show at any rate, but he made a special point of skewering Davila. All the critics raved about Jonelle Allen, but I thought it was Raul Julia and Davila who made that show go. | |
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| re: Diana Davila | |
| Posted by: LynnB 09:19 pm EST 03/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana Davila - BigM 01:18 pm EST 03/06/19 | |
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| So did I :-) | |
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