| re: To Hugh, I leave my cape: Jackman once did a reading of 'On the Twentieth Century' | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 11:29 pm EDT 06/18/22 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:24 pm EDT 06/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: To Hugh, I leave my cape: Jackman once did a reading of 'On the Twentieth Century' - bobby2 10:36 pm EDT 06/18/22 | |
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| The only two performances in that production that I especially liked were those from Mary Louise Wilson and Jim Walton. I did not much like even several people I almost always like. I exempt the ensemble and the porters from this. While Wilson was not as energetic as might have been ideal, and she was not 100-percent perfect on her lyrics when I saw it, she created a character I bought. And that is important even in a piece like this. I certainly believed most of the folks in the original production. They seemed like real people, even as they were giving big performances. I was not wild about Madeline Kahn, and I thought the show improved greatly with Judy Kaye, but even Kahn seemed more like a real person than the greatly talented Chenoweth did in the Roundabout production. If there was a single performance I particularly disliked, it was hers. But I blame Scott Ellis, especially as that was not only production he has directed about which I could say more or less the same things. Btw, when I heard Wilson was cast, I thought she would prove to be miscast, even though I think she is one of the greatest comic actresses of our time. When I saw her, I was happily surprised that she seemed to have found that woman, at least in a way that worked very well for me. |
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