die, adriana, die
If you ever wondered, cher public, what Adriana Lecouvreur would look like as a Charles Busch “Grande Dame Guignol” epic, well, now here’s your chance. (It’s surely coincidental, though serendipitous, that mezzo-soprano Marianna Bódi so closely resembles Olivia de Havilland circa Lady in a Cage.)
I know you have to play to the back of the house, but why do so many directors allow this kind of comically overdrawn gestures? There are few things worse than someone overacting ‘Drunk’, and this must look overacted even to the valets parking the cars outside. I was waiting for her to scream “NEELY!!!! NELLY O’HARA!!!!!!”
But then it would have been campy, instead of just plain bad.
I like the notion of making her an aging drunk/pill freak, though!
WHO are those mime-looking people behind her?
terrible insult to Mme. De Havilland…
looks like bonnie hunt
it is not the first time we have seen a drag queen inspired performance. How many of us saw Millo do Vera Galupe Borzh as Adriana at carnegie a few years ago. (I know I am going to get comments about making fun of such a sacred cow.)
When all else fails copy a drag queen or a clapped out old diva like Miss Millo.
It’s all so Szeged!
For more Szgedness see
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It’s all so Szeged!
For more Szegedness see
http://tinyurl.com/68fdg9
It’s all so Szeged!
Paddy Pig , if you wear lipstick, you are still a pig. Millo was superb as Adrianna, poor widdle you.
Oh but wait, your evel of verismo is coming, the fake overdown, crap of Renayyy is on it’s way. You won’t feel left out long will you?