Can't wait to read Ciro's thoughts.
Can't wait to read Ciro's thoughts.
Tom hooper responding to Denby in the link with the "haters" USA today article is interesting.
Oh no. They've got Ciro too!
Now all we need is for me to see it, love it, and then start planning our trio's pilgrimage to Toledo!Originally Posted by McTeague
Or was that Santiago de Compostela?
I was directing this movie in my head at the age of 12
Guess who got beat up a lot in middle school.
LOL! I started at 15.I was directing this movie in my head at the age of 12
Guess who got beat up a lot in middle school.
I saw the original London cast when I was 12 and have disliked it ever since!
LOL Did you see Patti Lupone as Fantine, then? She's probably the only original cast member I can think of who has never been asked back to reprise her role in any of the various concert and special cd and event celebrations and revivals they've had of this over the years.I saw the original London cast when I was 12 and have disliked it ever since!
It gave me forever a contagious distaste for musicals.
Confession: I don't get why Patti Lupone is famous.
Well, in the right role, she works. But she is not to everyone's taste. She can come across as shrill and bombastic if she doesn't appeal to you.
But still, she is an important Leading Lady of the Stage, without a doubt. And there's not too many really powerful diva like singers who can sort of assume the role of heir apparent to Ethel Mermon, is there? Most of the great leading ladies we've had over the last 30 years all seem to be much more of the ingenues, the heroines, in their "types". Patti Lupone does really stand out.
That being said, she is not my favorite at all from that period. But she's certainly had her highs. I actually think her best performance and the one that is most pleasing to the ear, was in Anything Goes.
If you'd seen her on the stage in "Evita", "Sweeney Todd", and "Gypsy" (among others), you would understand.Confession: I don't get why Patti Lupone is famous.
Probably because she's a a psycho diva.
Her Sweeney Todd is the only thing I liked. I saw most of her Evita on a videorecording and thought she was atrocious - her voice did not fit the part at all and she belted EVERYTHING. Same with Fantine, which... you shouldn't be belting when your character is dying, that's all I have to say. I understand that she is a Legend of the Stage, and she does have a unique voice. She just never seemed to be cast right for that voice.
I do need to see Gypsy, though,.
Well, she got rave reviews (as well as a Tony) for Evita and an Olivier award for playing Fantine in Les Miz, so there's that.
One more thing. LuPone is obviously easy to make fun of. When she started, she was infamous for her muddy diction; in a very funny clip on youtube, a guy transcribed what he actually heard her singing:
Also, I have to say the best thing about the movie coming out has been that it's gotten me into the stage show, which I never bothered much with before. One of my theater blind spots, aside from hearing the odd hit off of it.
I've been listening alot to the different versions of songs on my Broadway Pandora and loving it. And the other night I watched the 10th Anniversary concert and I must say I was FLOORED. STUNNED. It was MASTERFUL. I think it says alot when the weakest person of you main cast turns out to be Tony Winner Lea Salonga!?!? And she's great, actually, just a tad below the rest of the cast. Her 'On My Own' was not transformative the way I hoped it would be but it was excellently sung. Her other songs/recitative were actually better than that. But everyone else just blew me away - I can see how this is thought to be the definitive case.
The Fantine here, Ruthie Henshall , just slayed - I was bawling at Come to Me 'Fantine's Death' in particular - she was just brilliant - you know I do believe I love that song 'Come to Me' better than 'I dreamed a Dream' as songs go. By alot. And Colm Wilkianson and Phillip Quast are just extraordinary. So too are Michael Ball as Marius and the actors playing Enjolas and Cosette, Judy Kaye, I think, and I actually loved these Thernadiers!?!? And I have heard some before I didn't like on recordings.
I'm working on eventually listening to all the different versions and comparing.
"Geth ass"
"Keep yoah paint outta my pahhking spot aaaahhhht depaaahhhhhtment!!!"
I really DO love Lupone's Buenos Aires! That's one of my fave Evita songs! But no, I don't always know what the frac she's saying I admit...
This is the first time I've wanted to see this movie:
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