First, darlings, let me say I had nothing to do with this. Last evening--or was it the one before--David just causally told me he had bought two tickets--at $250 each--for this revival of "Funny Girl." He agreed that if the Covid gets worse, we don't go, or if the project folds (as I suspect it may) we will get our money back. I should have been consulted.
The day we are scheduled to go is the matinee performance on Saturday April 2, 2022, which just happens to be the 43rd anniversary of my mother's death. If we go, I hope she keeps an eye on us, from above.
Of course, every Theater Queen in town will go. And I am more worried about Beanie facing their ire, rather than the critics. Over the years, more suited performers, like Neva Small or Judy Kuhn, not to mention a young Patti Lu Pone might have fared better--but Beanie????????She has got a voice, but not THE voice, meaning less that she's not BARBRA and more that her voice does not seem strong enough to handle the vocal demands the score requires. Remember how Madeline Kahn--God, rest her soul!--burned her voice out with "On The Twentieth Century," back in 1978? I do, because I saw it, in previews, and even then I could tell Kahn's voice would not last.
If we end up going, it will mark The Raving Queen's return to Broadway, which is something to be celebrated. If Beanie conks out onstage, we will be third row center, and I can just get up there, and finish the show. I have been wanting to do "Funny Girl" since I was nine years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only time will tell, darlings! However it goes, this will be some kind of an event!
And I will share it with you, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Madeline Kahn blew her voice out in “On the Twentieth Century”?
ReplyDeleteWhich song? Babette??
Looked like a fun show though.
New York in sixteen hours!!
ReplyDeleteVictoria,
The minute Madeline began singing
I could tell she was straining her
voice. The production was stunning--
staged by Harold Prince!1 How I
miss him!