| re: Steven Suskin's review on Jay Records "Anyone Can Whistle" |
| Posted by: jurinac 07:57 am EST 12/02/20 |
| In reply to: re: Steven Suskin's review on Jay Records "Anyone Can Whistle" - keikekaze 09:25 pm EST 12/01/20 |
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Knowledgeable though he is (to say the least), I knew not to put much stock in Steven Suskin's reviews of singing per se after he referred to Sergio Franchi's "booming bass voice" in DO I HEAR A WALTZ?, or when he said he couldn't tell whether Leontyne Price sang all the different roles on RCA's disc of PORGY AND BESS scenes.
In this case, it looks to me as if what he was trying to say was that no one going into ANYONE CAN WHISTLE thought of Lansbury as a singer at all. And as wonderful as she seems to have been in WHISTLE, it still took some maneuvering (particularly by Jerry Herman himself) to get the original producers to cast her in MAME. But if I'm right, that's not immediately obvious from Suskin's review as printed. |
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