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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 9:54:50 GMT
I didn't particularly enjoy this. SS was ok but hamming it up for the audiences something rotten. Darius played Darius playing 'Musical Theatre male #2', again.
That said, my dad (a non-theatre fan) loved it. Howling at all of SS's act and tapping his toes throughout.
It seems to me this appealed across the board to the wider irregular theatre audiences than the more frequent theatre goers.
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Post by showoff on Dec 27, 2018 11:07:29 GMT
I don't feel she went too big, because it's a stage performance and you have to reach the back of the top tier.
However, I didn't really gel with her faces she pulled at certain times, and this is in no way an insult, but certain ones she did, she looked very like Ricky Gervais, especially in Extras (in his show within a show, When the Whistle Blows) and once that thought popped into my head, it would not leave!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 27, 2018 20:26:56 GMT
This was a car crash. SS looked a mess and her accent (as was everyone else’s) was all over the place.
God knows what people who saw this in NYC would think of the standard of our productions.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 20:37:47 GMT
I'm rewatching this with my Mum now and she is loving it, especially Sheridan. She applauded in the living room after Rain On My Parade! 😂
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 27, 2018 20:52:00 GMT
I'm rewatching this with my Mum now and she is loving it, especially Sheridan. She applauded in the living room after Rain On My Parade! 😂 Has she had a few sherry’s? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 21:07:08 GMT
I'm rewatching this with my Mum now and she is loving it, especially Sheridan. She applauded in the living room after Rain On My Parade! 😂 Has she had a few sherry’s? She doesn't drink so I hope not. 😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 21:18:02 GMT
Just realised on the broadcast, in the first meeting with Darius, Sheridan says "am I someone you should know", then slaps herself and says "are you someone I should know". Was this scripted or was it a genuine gag Sheridan went with? I can't remember?
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Post by sagiirl on Dec 28, 2018 15:36:34 GMT
Watched the recording last night with the husband. I saw the show in the West end but with Natasha Barnes when she stood in for SS. I much preferred Natasha but in a way hard to judge live against recorded however I did find SS annoying at times. Husband never saw it live he enjoyed it last night but said that SS reminded him of the woman in The Krankies. As I'm not British born and have no idea who they are I couldn't comment.
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Post by showoff on Dec 28, 2018 23:07:33 GMT
Watched the recording last night with the husband. I saw the show in the West end but with Natasha Barnes when she stood in for SS. I much preferred Natasha but in a way hard to judge live against recorded however I did find SS annoying at times. Husband never saw it live he enjoyed it last night but said that SS reminded him of the woman in The Krankies. As I'm not British born and have no idea who they are I couldn't comment. My mother said the same thing when she watched it, that she reminded her of Jimmy Krankie! |
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Post by sf on Dec 28, 2018 23:24:29 GMT
I don't feel she went too big, because it's a stage performance and you have to reach the back of the top tier. You do - which is why I didn't go and see it at the Palace in Manchester (where it was taped - I live in Greater Manchester). I saw it at the Menier, and up close it was a thrilling performance. Ms. Smith's work in the broadcast version was (inevitably) bigger and broader and designed to fill a much larger space, and - as the song says - bigger isn't better. Or at least, isn't necessarily better, and wasn't better in this case. At the Menier, her acting choices compensated for the lack of oomph in some of her vocals. Here, they didn't. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 2:31:01 GMT
Saw the show twice with Sheridan and loved it but I don't know if her performance translated to film, I caught the filmed version three times over Christmas.
I think in live performance a strained vocal is forgiven with a great rounded performance.
I loved when she winked at the audience and completely broke the fourth wall, they could have framed the show more as a whole vaudeville show.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 16:56:11 GMT
I'm rewatching this with my Mum now and she is loving it, especially Sheridan. She applauded in the living room after Rain On My Parade! 😂 Probably relief that the torture had ended.  |
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Post by danieljohnson14 on Apr 22, 2019 17:36:58 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 22, 2019 20:48:48 GMT
She masters the art of self-complimenting almost as well as Lin Manuel Miranda
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Post by JJShaw on Jan 18, 2021 21:45:07 GMT
I've never been able to find any more information about this supposed 2014 gender swap production other than this same copy-paste quote:
"In 2014, the musical was reimagined in the hands of the director Joil Newman who exchanged the female role of Fanny with Funnie Brice, a male. The actor Julio Cesar Arturo Valverde Monje was hired to play the iconic character. The first tour started in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Teatro Opera, and the cast then traveled to Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama. The cast then traveled to the rest of South America with the Funny Girl South America Tour 2.0."
It used to be on the Wiki page but has now been taken off there, can anyone shed any more light on this? I for one think with the right tweaks this could be a great show to gender swap, especially considering we never see Fanny pregnant so when they start a family we dont have to navigate that!
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