Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
#0Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 1:48pmWho are your favorite big, brassy, black leading ladies?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#1re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:08pmSharon Wilkins, Lillias White, Felicia Fields, the late Nell Carter, the now svelte Jennifer Holiday, the beautifully big-boned Jennifer Hudson, and, of course, Ken Page.
#2re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:14pmJennifer Hudson continues to surprise me. I just cannot wait for DG. But no one can forget about Lilias White. Tough Call.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#3re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:16pmCharlo Crossley. She rocked as Motor Mouth on the HAIRSPRAY tour.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
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#4re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:17pmFrenchie Davis during "Season of Love."
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#5re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:23pmamen Diva. Her I KNOW was tear-jerkingly brilliant.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
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Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:23pmKen Page?
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#7re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:37pmI second Frenchie but we can't forget Fredi!
"I wrote a book: "How to Be Popular". Now I've put together a top ten list of how to help you:
-Elphie, everyday... shower. I mean, who knows? Maybe some of that green is gonna come off!
-Deodorant Elphie. No body likes a stinky witch!
-I think we've covered the hair, we'll get to that.
-Clean underclothes. That's all I'm gonna say.
-Look at your posture. That's no way to be popular!
-Bed made, room straightened. We've done that.
-Colors blended. Oookay.
-But the most important thing to have, to make yourself popular, is to keep your beautiful smile."
~Kristin Chenoweth in her last performance of the song "Popular"
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
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Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:38pmCapathia Jenkins
I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!
#9re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:52pm
I'll add Frenchie Davis to the list. And I haven't seen a Motormouth Maybelle yet that I haven't thought was wonderful, although I'm very reluctant about Queen Latifah. She just doesn't do it for me the way she does it for everybod else.
Mattbrain:
Ken Page starred on Broadway in Aint Misbehavin, The Wiz, Cats, etc. You might know him from the film version "Torch Song Trilogy" where he's Murray, one of the drag divas. He's also done some wonderful voice work for animated films like "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and "Nightmare Before Christmas." And yes, he's practically a big, brassy black woman. You'd love him.
In that same vein, I saw The Wiz in La Jolla a couple of weeks ago and the divaesque Titus Burgess should make the list now too. MEOW.
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Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:54pmDarlene Love! LOVE!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
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Posted: 10/28/06 at 2:58pm
-Sharon Wilkins
-Darlene Love
#12re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 3:00pmgotta go with Sharon Wilkins. shes da bomb!
#13re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 3:14pm
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#14re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 3:57pm
This is a very odd thread.
That said, Darlene Love is about 4'11" and 98 lbs.
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SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#15re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 4:00pmCrystal Monee Hall in Rent. Frenchie's great, but Crystal is a much better Soloist and Bag Lady than Frenchie is.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#16re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 4:05pm
I think the worst "Big Black" moment is in RAGTIME at Sarah's funeral. That anthem is soooo overwraught.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
Updated On: 10/28/06 at 04:05 PM
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Posted: 10/28/06 at 4:47pmWHAT!? No one has mentioned Sharon Wilkins yet!?!!!! SEUSSICAL...THE LIFE...ALL SHOOK UP...
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
mint0621
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/04
#19re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 4:48pm
Felicia P. Fields!
"Hell No" brings down the house...
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Posted: 10/28/06 at 5:08pm
Noone mentioned Mary Bond Davis either...
"STEP ASIDE MS. BUTTERCUP...IT'S TIME TO WRAP THIS MUTHA UP!"
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
gonnapassmealaw
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/06
#23re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 5:31pm
Lillias White
Sharon Wilkins
Darlene Love
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#24re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 5:36pm
Hook: I mentioned Sharon W. i was sad that Lillias was out when I saw The Life, but Sharon was so amazing I quickly got over it.
Husk: I loved loved loved lynn Thigpen and was so sad when she died so young. I didnKt mention her because I knew her best as an underated character actress in film. I need to check out Working again.
#25re: Let a BIG BLACK WOMAN stop the show!
Posted: 10/28/06 at 6:58pmThis is kinda off topic but my boyfriend and I are always joking how the "big black lady who stops the show" in Martin Short's show and "Trix" from Drowsy could be played by the same person except both of their big parts are at the end.
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