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| Posted by: pagates 09:23 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
| In reply to: in defense of Michael Hayden (and Sally Murphy) - Chazwaza 02:16 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
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| I wholeheartedly agree. I remain sad that I could only see it once, but deeply grateful that I could see it all. First act from the top of the balcony, but I was able to slide into an empty orchestra seat for the second. His Soliloquy was probably the most deeply moving moment I’ve yet experienced in theater - his acting and singing complemented each other perfectly. I began tearing up as the Soliloquy started and continued sobbing intermittently through the rest of the show. As you say, his performance along with the rest of the cast (and I want to give props to Audra as well) made this a revelatory production. What had, in every other production I’d seen (none in NY) mere treacle, unveiled depths of psychological insight and feeling that I never imagined available in this, or really any, musical. | |
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| re: in defense of Michael Hayden (and Sally Murphy) | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 10:04 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 09:55 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: in defense of Michael Hayden (and Sally Murphy) - pagates 09:23 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
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| Exactly! (I intentionally left Audra out so as not to take away and spotlight from Hayden and Murphy... Audra has gotten sooooooo many props for this show (and the first Tony that elevated her status and career trajectory very quickly, and rightly so -- though I'm sure Marin had many fervent supporters that year, also rightly so), and Hayden and Murphy are almost always left in the dust. Audra is perfection, and revelatory in that role as well, but for me it didn't alter my understanding and experience of the show on the same level or amount of levels that Hayden and Murphy's did. The entire cast is amazing, very much including the exceptional and very rewarded-for-it Audra, but especially because of the somehow unsung heroes of it... the two leads. ha) |
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| "I can have all the girls I want. Don't you know that?" | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:52 pm EDT 04/07/21 | |
| In reply to: re: in defense of Michael Hayden (and Sally Murphy) - Chazwaza 09:55 pm EDT 04/06/21 | |
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| I expect some here will object to the comment I'm about to make, but I think a major reason why many people reacted so favorably to Michael Hayden's performance in CAROUSEL was his sex appeal, which was palpable and which is, indeed, a very important part of Billy Bigelow's character. I do think Hayden's acting was excellent as well, and I thought it really added a lot to the character that he played Billy as clearly a New Yorker in terms of his speech. (The script tells us that Billy came up to New England from Coney Island.) That said, I don't think it was the acting that was revelatory so much as the sex appeal. Thoughts? |
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| re: "I can have all the girls I want. Don't you know that?" | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 05:53 pm EDT 04/07/21 | |
| In reply to: "I can have all the girls I want. Don't you know that?" - Michael_Portantiere 04:52 pm EDT 04/07/21 | |
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| I think you are absolutely right. | |
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