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| re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? | |
| Posted by: lonlad 06:19 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
| In reply to: re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? - Michael_Portantiere 04:48 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| Ben Platt would be preposterous as Franklin -- but would be excellent as Charley, and Beanie F is a made-to-order Mary; she even looks faintly the way Annie Morrison did back in the day. | |
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| re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 10:32 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
| In reply to: re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? - lonlad 06:19 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| How would he be preposterous? Good acting by good actors goes a long way. I remember everyone saying Audra was wrong to play Billie Holliday or that David Hyde Pierce should be Cornelius (lol, some people here posted that), not Horace. | |
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| re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 06:52 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| In reply to: re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? - KingSpeed 10:32 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| I wouldn't necessarily go quite so far as to say that Ben Platt would be "preposterous" casting as Franklin Shepard, but if he or someone of his type were to be cast in that role, whoever would you get to play Charley? I think there has to be some difference of general type between the two characters, and there is a lot about Charley as written that screams "Ben Platt." I assume the people who said Audra was wrong to play Billie Holliday said that because they couldn't imagine her singing in the style of Billie Holliday, which is in a completely different musical universe as her own voice, and had no idea that she could do that so brilliantly well. And as for David Hyde Pierce as Horace, I said from the beginning that people who objected to his casting were wrong in thinking the role had to be played in a very specific way. |
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| re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:33 pm EDT 09/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? - Michael_Portantiere 06:52 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| Regarding Pierce, I was one of the people who wondered how Pierce would approach the role of Horace, given that it's something completely different from the kinds of roles that we'd seen him in previously (SPAMALOT, CURTAINS, and, of course, FRASIER, amongst others). And for me, he was the real revelation of the production. Everyone else was doing what they do brilliantly...Pierce was doing something new and wonderful and was the tough spine that this production really needed. I continue to marvel at what he did with the line in the last scene where he's responding to Dolly having said that she's found him an ideal wife. I'm paraphrasing here, but the line is something like "I don't want any ideal wife. If I want an ideal wife, I'll go and find one on my own, and I have found her and it's you dammit." Pierce hit that speech fast-talking and argumentative, as his Horace often was, but took a pause (and possibly put a period on the sentence) after the word "you." And then took a moment to realize for the first time what he's actually said before coming out with the last word "Dammit," as though he were trying so hard to not say this exact thing to her and just couldn't help himself. It was so good and so perfect and so in character. Pierce should have had that Tony that he wasn't even nominated for, the one that went to his cast mate, Gavin Creel. Creel was excellent, especially if you like casting leading man types as Cornelius, but he wasn't doing anything, for lack of a better term, special with the part that we hadn't seen from him or others before. |
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