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| Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. | |
| Last Edit: GrumpyMorningBoy 01:16 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 01:15 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: re: RE MOULIN ROUGE & THE FEMALE LEAD - aislestorm 11:06 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
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| Here's what she's maybe not so great at: knowing what kind of roles she should play. She's really just not a Fanny Brice. But Ms. Michele has a spectacular instrument. That voice is gold, people. Pull up her "A Boy Like That / I Have A Love" from "Glee" if you don't believe what her voice can do. Her tone color as she moves from chest into mix into head voice is just a genetic gift, straight up, and not many people have voices like that. Linked below. Yes. She has that habit of doing register break 'pops' too often. (I'd argue that she popularized that vocal trick so much that it influenced other Broadway singers.) But Ryan Murphy saw Ms. Michele and saw the kinds of roles she can / should play, and the way he's continued to let her explore other sides of her acting chops on TV has been good for her. She's got star quality, she's telegenic... And yes, she can sing like a bird 8 times a week. We'd be lucky to have her back on Broadway. But I can't fault her for taking the TV / film paychecks while they're coming, though. - GMB |
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| Link | "A Boy Like That / I Have A Love" from Glee, on Spotify -- with Lea Michele and Niya Rivera |
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| re: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:17 pm EDT 09/03/19 | |
| In reply to: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. - GrumpyMorningBoy 01:15 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
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| Regarding Michele as Fanny Brice, I think the actress was ill-served by the poorly written and conceived storyline on GLEE in which her character was cast in this role for a major Broadway revival. Though Michele was seen in a few moments from FUNNY GIRL, during which she was basically doing a Streisand impression, it was never clear from the story telling if this was meant to convey how inexperienced and relatively untrained the Rachel character was within the world of GLEE or if this was indeed Michele's idea of how to play Fanny. No other characters ever commented on this and I think we're told that Rachel's reviews are good. Perhaps Ryan Murphy, or whomever was in charge of GLEE by that time, thought there was only one way to play Fanny and directed Michele to turn her Streisand up to eleven. Lea Michele might be an excellent Fanny Brice and she's probably capable of delivering a performance that isn't Streisand's. We just don't have any idea at this point. |
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| re: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. | |
| Posted by: IThespis 08:59 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. - GrumpyMorningBoy 01:15 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
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| Grumpy, come sit by me! | |
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| re: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. | |
| Posted by: CT2NYC 01:41 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. - GrumpyMorningBoy 01:15 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
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| No matter how talented she is, she would be miscast as Satine. | |
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| re: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 03:02 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Unfair. Lea Michele is GOOD. - CT2NYC 01:41 pm EDT 08/31/19 | |
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| And... I can't begin to speak to that, as I haven't seen the show. I am happy that Karen Olivo is back in NYC, though. From her breakout in BROOKLYN I've always thought she's a natural on stage. - GMB |
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