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| re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:27 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
| In reply to: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. - GabbyGerard 10:42 am EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| I can imagine Ziemba being wonderful in the role. I remember when the production was done, and wishing I could see it. Just to clarify in case anyone doesn't know: Fontana played older brother Stanley in Brighton Beach Memoirs with Metcalf, and would have continued as Stanley had Broadway Bound started performances. Noah Robbins, who was terrific, played Eugene in Brighton Beach, and Josh Grisetti was to have played Eugene in Broadway Bound. |
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| re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. | |
| Last Edit: AC126748 09:04 am EDT 08/27/20 | |
| Posted by: AC126748 09:04 am EDT 08/27/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. - AlanScott 05:27 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| I've seen Ziemba give two superb performances in non-singing/dancing roles. One was as Ouisa in SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION at the Old Globe. The other was as M'Lynn in STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Cape May Stage. (Ziemba and her husband are longtime summer residents of Cape May). Her Ouisa was far better than the two other actresses I've seen in the role, Allison Janney and Margaret Colin, both of whom on paper would seem more right for the part. And she really elevated STEEL MAGNOLIAS out of the realm of mawkishness. | |
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| That was the best Six Degrees I've ever seen. | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 12:14 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. - AC126748 09:04 am EDT 08/27/20 | |
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| It's the Six Degrees that should have come to Broadway rather than the Janney production. Both were directed by Trip Cullman, but the latter production was such a misfire while the Globe production was both laugh out loud funny (I can still see the chubby kid with the yellow walkman screaming, "You're an idiot!") and incredibly moving--I get goosebumps when I think of Ziemba's delivery of "It was an experience." I've seen three productions and she was the only Ouisa whom I didn't compare to Channing the whole time. She, Thomas Jay Ryan and the actor who played Paul were all sensational. I would love to have seen her M'Lynn. | |
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| re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 07:32 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. - AlanScott 05:27 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| I loved that revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs, and eagerly looked forward to seeing Cromer's take on Broadway Bound. It broke my heart that his production never got to see the light of day. | |
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| re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:16 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. - TheOtherOne 07:32 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| It was a rare case for me of preferring a revival to an original. And while I think that would have been less likely with Broadway Bound, that original production did have its problems, as well as greatness, so perhaps I would have. I didn't even like Brighton Beach Memoirs as a play in the original production, at least not with the original cast. There were some interesting replacements. But the Cromer production was so good that I liked it more. Oddly, it was reported that Metcalf did not like working with Cromer. |
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| Metcalf and the Simon Plays | |
| Posted by: DanielVincent 11:58 am EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. - AlanScott 09:16 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
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| I also heard from a fairly reliable source that Metcalf was unhappy working on the Simon plays. Her rapport with Cromer was one factor. I was told another factor was her relationship with Dennis Boutsikaris. Apparently, during their long history of frequently working together, there has been on again/off again romantic involvement. When they signed on to the Simon plays, it was on again; as the process continued, it careened to off again. | |
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| re: Metcalf and the Simon Plays | |
| Last Edit: TheOtherOne 06:01 am EDT 08/29/20 | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 05:57 am EDT 08/29/20 | |
| In reply to: Metcalf and the Simon Plays - DanielVincent 11:58 am EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| Quite likely. He appeared off-Broadway with her in The Other Place, but was replaced by Daniel Stern and then Bill Pullman two seasons later when MTC produced the play on Broadway. (Still my favorite performance of hers, for what it’s worth) | |
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| Me too! | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 10:54 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. - TheOtherOne 07:32 pm EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| Metcalf, Fontana, and especially Robbins were really sensational. Maybe I'm naive, but I really think it could found its audience had it been given more of a chance to run. But, as someone sang in a DIFFERENT Ziemba show, "It's a business!" | |
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