tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post4160124795591069298..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-28633906569800292842014-12-31T11:34:03.639-05:002014-12-31T11:34:03.639-05:00...for aficionados, only. ;)...for <a href="http://youtu.be/GEjMvYS1gAE" rel="nofollow">aficionados</a>, only. ;)The Absolute Marxisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01355154804077467952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-42561819786119808322014-12-31T10:12:54.925-05:002014-12-31T10:12:54.925-05:00Thank you, Thersites. The production you linked is...Thank you, Thersites. The production you linked is the very best this show has ever received in my well-informed, never humble opinion. Too bad Bernstein wasn't alive to enjoy it.<br /><br />Groves made a marvelous Candide. He has a terrific voice, and just the right looks and stage presence for the role.<br /><br />My admiration for Chenoweth knows no bounds. She's cute as a button, and a superb singer of operatic coloratura as well as Broadway show tunes. She's also a comic genius with a perfect sense of timing in a class with the late Madelyn Kahn. Kristin Chenoweth combines all her talents here to deliver a vocally brilliant, hysterically <i>funny</i> rendition of Glitter and Be Gay awakening full awareness of the delicious ironies and comical hypocrisy in her audience.<br /><br />Glitter and Be Gay is often performed as a "serious" coloratura aria by highly competent operatic sopranos who miss it's mischievous tongue-in-cheek humor, and <i>risqué</i> double entendres. Even then, the piece is so well-written it still works, but what we have HERE is the way it SHOULD be performed in the context of the show -- a brilliant, elaborate SPOOF.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-33270177910533875022014-12-31T08:13:07.028-05:002014-12-31T08:13:07.028-05:00....must be 'type' casting.......must be <a href="http://youtu.be/e4EtbRJw14E" rel="nofollow">'type' casting</a>...Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.com