Re: No, No, Nanette

I saw it tonight (Fri.) and it's apparently improved since the Dress on
Wednesday.  I agree that Rosie O'Donnell fails to bring anything other
than
her one-joke (?) style to her role, and you get tired of it pretty fast.
The rest is absolutely delightful - a smart, fast-paced production with
incredible talent and spirit that shows off the highly styled (and dated,
but in a good way) material.

Beth Leavel brought the house down with her blues number in Act 3, and the
evening was sort of a personal triumph for Sandy Duncan.  And it was great
having Rob Fisher back at the podium.

"Robert Bouton" <mprovizr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Encores broke its own tradition by mounting the 1971 version of the
> 1925 show that, legend has it, helped curse Boston Red Sox.  But thank
> God this year included a genuinely entertaining show.
>
> It's a trifle, filled to the brim with dance, but what dancers!
> Michael Berresse, Shonn Wiley and Mara Davi all stepped with style.
> The comic highlights were Angel Reda, Jennifer Cody and Nancy Anderson
> as the mistresses.  Old pros Sandy Duncan and Charles Kimbrough retain
> some charm.  I'm afraid I just don't get Beth Leavel.  Her jazz
> singing involves abrupt changes in volume that have nothing to do with
> the lyric being crooned.
>
> But nothing was as horrifying as the sack of slackness impersonating a
> maid.  She reads lines like a very bored prompter in an overheated
> room.  Her name is Rosie O'Donnell and I hope she never again darkens
> a stage.