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Juliette Lewis does not look so good, girls. Could it be too much facial work, drugs, or a combination of both????????????????
Lea Michele is a disgrace, but at least she can hit notes. Lewis is a quirky actress and is playing a role many of us want to--Magenta--in this show. But did you know she sings the opening song "Science Fiction?" The score's most melodic and lyrical song, and Juliette Lewis sings THIS? Can she?
And I thought the Narrator always sings this. I would rather hear Rachel Dratch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have seen a couple of clips on YouTube, and I have not been impressed. And the theater staff and show crew are coming down hard on the audience participation thing, which is crucial to this show. I mean, are people going to be stopped from doing the "Time Warp?" I defy anyone so stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I admit when I first heard she was cast as Magenta, I asked why? Now, I am really wondering. I have not seen the show yet, but I plan to, at some point.
Juliette Lewis has always been an actress of limited range.
This time, I am afraid she may be stretching things too far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aren’t we all tired of the Quirky Actress persona!!!
Victoria, We sure are! Especially those getting a little long in the tooth!
Actually I think she looks pretty good here, a reasonably older version of herself (and a good baseline for a Magenta makeover: can totally see it now). She's a creature borne of the 1990s "easy fame" era, when all one had to do to get a career was stand next to then-white-hot Brad Pitt for ten minutes, preferably kissing him. Never understood what anyone ever saw in her other than " we need a cliche weird teen girl or young woman type who isn't Winona Ryder or Parker Posey".
Honestly I never understood the mania for Brad Pitt, either: not a great actor, not a compelling presence, just a typical blond pretty boy who cranked the hormones of soccer moms and closet queens. What the kids today would dismiss as "TEMU Robert Redford" (if they knew or cared who Redford was).
As for "Rocky Horror" being revived as a Broadway show: terrible idea they should have nixed as soon as it was proposed. It may have started as a live show, but it flopped in that format and didn't become iconic until the film version belatedly took off as the first incarnation of "interactive media". The audience is conditioned to reacting to a pre-filmed flawless version, so it can't possibly work live anymore. Perhaps as an off off bway cheap amateur "experience", but Broadway houses are too large, tix too expensive, and actors too unschooled in how to integrate performing between heckles and objects being thrown at them (while the audience shouts their lines at them a beat before they can say them).
My Dear, I have always wanted to play Magenta; I question this casting. I saw
the revival earlier and it was OK. I also saw the movie at the 8th Street Playhouse and then alone on DVD. It IS better with an audience. I will be curious to see how the audience behaves. I am seeing it on June 18.
I have an aisle seat, and I WILL do the "Time Warp!"
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