| re: A Little Night Music at Barrington Stage without Emily Skinner but alas |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:45 am EDT 08/21/22 |
| In reply to: re: A Little Night Music at Barrington Stage without Emily Skinner but alas - AlexanderKat 09:38 am EDT 08/21/22 |
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That is a great story and a great bit of (unrealised) casting. She'd have been far more appropriate in my mind than Margaret Hamilton, although reports I've read of Hamilton's take on the role were very positive.
I think that most English actresses between 60 and 80 would have been good fits. Margaret Rutherford and Edith Evans would have been very funny (although neither in their youth neither looked exactly like prime courtesan material). I remember liking Sîan Phillips in the NT Judi Dench production in the mid-'90s although she was only a year or two older, I think (and had played Desiree at Chichester only a year or two earlier).
There's a nice emotional arc to Madame Armfeldt being played by a former Desiree, even if it's only acknowledged by the more fervent fans of the form. I know Glynis Johns played it somewhere (was it that Lois Nettleton production?). Not sure I'd want to see Bernadette, whose soubrette mien doesn't jibe with Madame's languorous drollery. (I saw her with Stritch and thought she was a superb Desiree.)
My God, Elsa Lanchester must have had a wealth of great stories! |
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