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| re: Beanie was bad for Broadway (no need to shout) | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 04:09 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 04:05 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: BEANIE WAS BAD FOR BROADWAY. - DOTD 03:23 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
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| I don't remember anyone having any major issues with Beanie during Hello, Dolly, where she played an important featured role. Performing that role, along with everything else she's done, also took the responsibilities you mention. (Priorities, work ethic, training, stamina, dedication, inbred talent). Some would say that in fact a featured role like that takes more of all of those attributes, because you're part of an ensemble team that is depending on you to carry your weight and be absolutely consistent with your colleagues, night after night after night. In a role that isn't necessarily getting the big accolades. But you still have to do it, and do it really well every time. I don't think you have any evidence that she "fed into the fantasies of the next generation of performers" etc etc - what does that even mean? Plus, I don't think she ever specifically said that the role itself was a "childhood dream" of hers. One can twist her words to make that so, but that's not quite what she's on record for saying, which is more that the movie and the role had a huge influence on her wanting to be a performer in general. As to the 4-day leave of absence, if that was properly negotiated beforehand, then it was. And as far as I know, it sure was. I don't see what that has to do with her ability (or not) to play the role. That the producers agreed to it was not "folly," it was making a compromise with the actress they wanted in the role. If you "wonder about stars' demands in the future" because of this example, I tend to think you are way way way overthinking the industry. Look. This whole thing was a huge mess, and it's hard to know where the fault really lies, or if it really even lies only with one person. But I'm not about to blame it all on Beanie, and some sort of cooked-up unprofessionalism you have decided to bestow on her (I know of no evidence that she's had issues with this in the past), and I don't think your vitriolic rant is helping anyone's cause. Certainly not your own. |
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| re: Beanie was bad for Broadway (no need to shout) | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 05:12 pm EDT 08/03/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Beanie was bad for Broadway (no need to shout) - Chromolume 04:05 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
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| Beanie has said playing Fanny was a "childhood dream" in just about every interview she's done. She had a Funny Girl birthday party when she was 3 years old. Also- playing a starring role definitely requires more stamina than a supporting role. Minnie Fay is especially easy. There are 5 songs before she even appears. | |
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| re: Beanie was bad for Broadway (no need to shout) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 07:50 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Beanie was bad for Broadway (no need to shout) - Chromolume 04:05 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
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| "it's hard to know where the fault really lies, or if it really even lies only with one person. " That's true but the truth is actually broader: in my experience, in the theatre, it is never one person on whom all of the blame can be placed. I think that is very true here. I think every person who has been named shares in the mess. |
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| re: Beanie was bad for Broadway (no need to shout) | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 04:17 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 04:17 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Beanie was bad for Broadway (no need to shout) - Chromolume 04:05 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
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| I think we also have to keep in mind that the narrative of this being a lifelong dream/goal for Beanie was one that was likely seeded by the production as a major marketing tool. They appear to have decided that building a PR campaign around that would be a way to get people to see the show (perhaps playing into the frisson between character and real-life actor that another poster has written about so eloquently as elevating her final performance), so that became the thrust of the press around her. As with so many other things with this production, the failures of that approach are now being foisted upon Beanie as an "entitled" actor. | |
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