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| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 10:07 pm EDT 07/29/20 | |
| In reply to: Renee Flemming? - andPeggy 08:05 pm EDT 07/29/20 | |
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| While acting, she was better than good. She was clearly a professional actress. Not the kinda performance where you'd say, "Wow, she could do a straight show," although she's stretching her own boundaries so much and received good notices for the Victoria Clark role in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA... ... but her singing was just so gorgeous that you really didn't care. And this is where I'll say that an operatically trained voice shines -- it's in a live performance. She didn't even need that body mic, clearly, to fill the house with sound, and it was truly lovely. - GMB |
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| re: Renee Flemming? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:42 pm EDT 07/30/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Renee Flemming? - GrumpyMorningBoy 10:07 pm EDT 07/29/20 | |
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| Fleming starred on Broadway in the nonmusical Living on Love, playing an opera singer. She had previously played it at Williamstown. Her acting seemed like an opera singer who's worked hard to be able to act in a nonmusical. She wasn't painful or embarrassing but she wasn't really good. Nettie doesn't have have a whole lot of dialogue in Carousel. Probably something she could do successfully. |
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| re: Renee Flemming? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 08:47 pm EDT 07/30/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Renee Flemming? - AlanScott 04:42 pm EDT 07/30/20 | |
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| "Her acting seemed like an opera singer who's worked hard to be able to act in a nonmusical. She wasn't painful or embarrassing but she wasn't really good." That's how I felt about Fleming's acting in CAROUSEL, and unfortunately, even her singing in that show was not enjoyable (to me) because of all those silly embellishments that were added. I wonder if those were her idea, or the musical director's? Either way, I DID NOT like them. One of the many wrongheaded decisions in that production, in my opinion. |
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| re: Renee Flemming? | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 12:47 am EDT 07/30/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Renee Flemming? - GrumpyMorningBoy 10:07 pm EDT 07/29/20 | |
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| I thought her stiff and studied. | |
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