Post by marshamae on Aug 10, 2018 16:11:58 GMT
There are things I like about the musical version and Well Did you Evah is worth the price of admission. But no single cast member , with the possible exception of Margalo Gilmore, was better than the actor in the Philadelphia Story playing the same role. Crosby was good, Sinatra was really good ,and edgier than Stewart , more of a change of class. Celeste Holm was good .none of them was better than Grant Stewart and Hussey.
Kelly was significantly less adept than Hepburn. She was less pushy in the first act, not believably drunk in the second act, and the silly dialogue in the garden scene only worked because of Sinatra’s romantic vibe. She was actually rather chilly throughout, maybe holding back because of her fiancées disapproval of her career. The child who played Dinah , Lydia Reed ( Hassie on the Real McCoys), was not in the same class as Virginia Weidler. One of the Corcoran kids, Sheila James ( probably too old) , maybe Patty McCormack or Evelyn Rudie should have been considered. Dinah is a key player and the little Reed could not deliver. Every one of her wise cracks fell flat.
Kelly was significantly less adept than Hepburn. She was less pushy in the first act, not believably drunk in the second act, and the silly dialogue in the garden scene only worked because of Sinatra’s romantic vibe. She was actually rather chilly throughout, maybe holding back because of her fiancées disapproval of her career. The child who played Dinah , Lydia Reed ( Hassie on the Real McCoys), was not in the same class as Virginia Weidler. One of the Corcoran kids, Sheila James ( probably too old) , maybe Patty McCormack or Evelyn Rudie should have been considered. Dinah is a key player and the little Reed could not deliver. Every one of her wise cracks fell flat.