| re: "Putting It Together" and "Victor/Victoria" were in the mid 90s. |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 09:32 pm EST 02/11/21 |
| Posted by: Chromolume 09:28 pm EST 02/11/21 |
| In reply to: re: "Putting It Together" and "Victor/Victoria" were in the mid 90s. - JereNYC 04:11 pm EST 02/11/21 |
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I do fondly remember the Forbidden Broadway parody of Murphy called "I Whistle A Sondheim Tune" that had her performing Anna as if she were Fosca. Very funny.
I'm not so sure Murphy would have "saved" V/V. I tend to think that Andrews' casting was really the only compelling thing about the show. But really, the source film was a lot of fun - not by any means perfect, but a lot of fun - and I think that should have been the end of the story.
True, though, that even the show's one saving grace was not up to the vocal demands of the role at that point - I remember that the amazing ease with which she negotiated that iconic upward slide at the end of "Le Jazz Hot" in the film (unless that was "helped" technologically?) was gone in the stage show - the break going up was much more noticeable. She was inevitably competing against her own performance in the film - and the film won that battle.
I do remember that the Times review gave Edwards damning "praise," saying "When it comes to writing and staging a multi-million-dollar Broadway show, one that's based on his own hit movie, he's still a master of film comedy." Ouch. |
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