| re: was there an effort to replace Kahn, even slowly, with a NAME star? |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 07:55 pm EST 02/02/21 |
| In reply to: re: was there an effort to replace Kahn, even slowly, with a NAME star? - PlayWiz 06:29 pm EST 02/02/21 |
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***Sills was known as a very good actress in opera and could also be very funny in some of her comic roles, as Rosina in "Barber of Seville" and as Norina, especially in her trying to drive her unwanted suitor/"husband" crazy portions of "Don Pasquale".****
Yes, but that sort of acting is very, very different from the kind of acting required for a Broadway role with lots of comic dialogue. Not to mention that some of Lily's music in OTTC needs to be belted in the alto register -- not a whole lot of it, but some of it -- and, as far as I know, Sills had never or almost never sung that way during her entire career. To me, the idea that she could have successfully played Lily, even if she had been considerably younger when OTTC came along, is quite bizarre to say the least. |
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