| re: Has anybody here seen CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF currently at St. Clement's? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 10:26 am EDT 03/21/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anybody here seen CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF currently at St. Clement's? - champagnesalesman 10:16 pm EDT 03/20/23 | |
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| Well, they can't "just change the lines" without permission from the rights holder. And, frankly, if I was the one in charge of the Williams catalogue and I received that request, I would decline it. I haven't seen this production, but there may be a way to play those lines calling the character fat that puts across that Big Daddy doesn't really think she is fat, but that this is his way to pushing her buttons and tearing her down. I remember going back to see the Sondherim revue PUTTING IT TOGETHER on Broadway when Kathie Lee Gifford was playing one performance a week for Carol Burnett. Gifford was significantly younger and more glam than Burnett and, while the production tried to costume and wig her in such a way as to de-emplasize that, there was no way to entirely transform Gifford into someone 30 years older than she was. The jokes at the character's expense for being old and unattractive, while all the men were busy hitting on the young and sexy Ruthie Henshall, really took on a much crueller sheen and Gifford played it in a such a way that the audience could really see the hurt beneath the steel. And you could see that this was a person who had probably spent most of her life as the young sexy one and who was suddenly not that anymore. It was an entirely different approach to the role than Burnett's and it worked. |
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