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WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
#50re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/27/06 at 6:31pm
Tommy Tune's original staging was brilliant for WHOREHOUSE. To God's hears we get his involvement!
But alas, Tune has said he's not interested in revivials.
#51re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 12:35amIt was done at Ogunquit last summer.
LouieLovesTheater
Leading Actor Joined: 3/30/04
#52re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 12:46am
She did it in Ogunquit first and then came to Minnesota and did it here. I was in it with her and she was wonderful. In great voice. Her Bus from Amarillo made me really appreciate the song.
And last year's concert was the dreadful one...On the Twentieth Century? An OK show but not right for the Actors Fund night...nto enough opportunites for people to shine.
Whorehouse is a pretty fast moving show with some good numbers. Not the best written music (everything just moves up a half step on each verse).
I think Reba would be wonderful but any country western gal could do it.
Pictres from Bloomington Civic Theater's production of Whorehosue with Sally Struthers
#53re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 12:56amReally? I'm still kicking myself for not seeing On the Twentieth Century. I adore, adore, adore that show.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#54re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:42amActually, Emily Skinner is an inspired choice.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
LouieLovesTheater
Leading Actor Joined: 3/30/04
#55re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:48amI don't know if Skinner is good for Miss Mona. However, it's a one-night only event so the chances of her being in attendance is pretty good. If she's having knee problems they can just sit her in that big wheelchair Ann-Margret would retreat to during the dance breaks on tour.
#56re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 11:08amSkinner is still a little young, but would probably be wonderful.
#57re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 11:16amI still think that Debra Monk is an inspired notion.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#58re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 12:56pm
"If she's having knee problems they can just sit her in that big wheelchair Ann-Margret would retreat to during the dance breaks on tour."
I didn't hear about this. Why a wheelchair?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#59re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:16pm
The opening scene which tells the "history" of the chicken ranch has a character named Wulla Jean - who was the old Madame who put in the rules that "made the place sorta special" - she's in a wheelchair. They explain that Mona replaced Wulla Jean after she died - and the wheelchair is usually part of the living room set and is usually Miss Mona's prefered "chair."
Ann Margret just sat in it more often than any other Mona in history...
Speaking of Wulla Jean - how about a cameo for Angie, now that she's moving back to the city?
#60re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:22pmOh GOD! Can you imagine. That cameo would stop the show and bring the house down!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#61re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:24pm
Or..if Angie were up to it...
They could change the Govenor to a female - a la "Ann Richards" -how fun would that be!
#62re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!
Posted: 4/28/06 at 2:21pmShe could do a throw back to the old British dance hall numbers with "The Sidestep."
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
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