| re: She has a Donaldson which was the big theater award before the Tonys | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 06:04 pm EDT 10/02/23 | |
| In reply to: She has a Donaldson which was the big theater award before the Tonys - PlayWiz 01:51 pm EDT 10/02/23 | |
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| My admiration for Andrews is second to none, but it's always interesting to me that people seem to think that she had, in your words, a "landmark" Broadway career. She appeared on Broadway in a grand total of four productions and off-Broadway in a limited run of one musical revue that later came to Broadway in a different production without her. She starred in one show that was an undisputed classic, another that is generally considered a lesser work, one that was an almost complete misfire, and one that is an almost forgotten early career work. It's her career in film and television that was so prolific as to be considered landmark. And I wonder if you pulled MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC, two of her earliest films, from the list if she'd be all that iconic and remembered at all. Aside from those two films, people probably remember VICTOR/VICTORIA, and maybe S.O.B., but only for the fact that she beared her breasts for a moment in it, and maybe THE PRINCESS DIARIES. I'm not saying that she isn't in a lot of good movies, but what is she actually remembered for? She fled Broadway for a film career when Walt Disney came calling with MARY POPPINS (and might have done the same if she'd gotten the MY FAIR LADY film), and didn't come back until Hollywood didn't want her husband's films anymore. And only returned in that case because it was the only way her husband's next idea for a project was going to happen. As I said, I love her. But the bulk of her career has not been on Broadway. She did not have anything resembling a "landmark" Broadway career, something that one might say about Ethel Merman or Mary Martin or Angela Lansbury or Audra MacDonald or Sutton Foster. I wish she'd come back to the stage for the 30 years in the prime of her career that she spent making movies and doing television. She might have provided some absolutely thrilling and legendary performances. But she didn't. |
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