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re: Billy Porter
Posted by: Chazwaza 04:11 am EDT 03/22/22
In reply to: re: Billy Porter - portenopete 06:06 pm EDT 03/21/22

I thought he was absolutely fantastic in Shuffle Along... I also think he's excellent in Pose. But I saw him in Kinky Boots, with the entire original cast (so not all that late in the run), and I have to say I thought was... not giving a performance worthy of a Tony, is the kind way to put it. I have to assume I caught him on an off night.
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re: Billy Porter
Posted by: portenopete 10:45 am EDT 03/22/22
In reply to: re: Billy Porter - Chazwaza 04:11 am EDT 03/22/22

I'd actually forgotten I'd seen him in Shuffle Along. With all those great actors in it he kinda got lost for me. (Brandon Victor Dixon and Adrienne Warren were the ones who stayed with me.) I think that may be the only time I've seen him live so I want to reiterate my crankiness about him is not an appraisal of his work. It comes from the interviews I've seen him giving over the last few years, after he had become "an icon". This is why I wish I wasn't such a consumer of talk shows :). I'd like to just experience him through his work. (Of course it's within my power to watch or read interviews with him, I admit.)
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