| re: The rejected multi Tony Winner REDHEAD for years | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 11:11 am EDT 03/18/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:03 am EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The rejected multi Tony Winner REDHEAD for years - NewtonUK 09:22 am EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| Years ago, at one of the season's end parties at Encores, I brought up the prospect of "Redhead" to Jack Viertel, with Karen Ziemba standing right there at hand; I asked the very charming Karen if she could pull off being a redhead, and she said that she was presently a redhead in the run of "Chicago". So I said to Viertel "So there you go! She'd be perfect!" But Viertel was noncommittal. I think Ziemba would have been great -- but there are really not that many people who could have pulled off that role over the years. Sandy Duncan would have when she was younger. It was Fosse's first outing as both director and choreographer, so he filled ii with dance. It's considered Verdon's probably most dance intensive starring show. Plus singing her songs, and a fun acting role going from repressed girl to one who starts to cut loose from that when she gets a love interest. I also mentioned "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" another time before it had been done, but to star Bette Midler in the Shirley Booth role. Viertel thought she would be great, too, but he said or gave me the impression that she'd be too demanding or want too much money or was in some other way unfeasible to do an Encores show. So he had a lot power there in his personal taste, and you'd hear some other folks pitching shows here and there to him. But at least he presented the musical scores of shows pretty much as they had been done originally. |
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