Comments on: "Once Upon A Mattress" http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/19/once-upon-a-mattress/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:01:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: PeaceBang http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/19/once-upon-a-mattress/#comment-1150 PeaceBang Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:37:12 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/19/once-upon-a-mattress/#comment-1150 Hi Musicaltheatre.com! Welcome to PeaceBang! My thing with Zooey is that she had terrible diction and but she was too casual and unrefined for Lady Larkin. I liked her voice but did you notice how much they brought the key down for her? The whole humor of Larkin's predicament is that she's supposed to be deliciously proper, ever the perfect, pristine lady-in-waiting and the opposite of Winnifred, and Zooey was not. It didn't help that her Harry played it so straight and didn't at all overdo the knightly honor thing at all (I like to see him played almost as broadly as one of the Princes in "Into the Woods" -- totally dead serious and hilariously chivalric).<br/><br/>So Zooey, for all her huge, beautiful blue eyes, left me unimpressed as Lady L. Hi Musicaltheatre.com! Welcome to PeaceBang! My thing with Zooey is that she had terrible diction and but she was too casual and unrefined for Lady Larkin. I liked her voice but did you notice how much they brought the key down for her? The whole humor of Larkin’s predicament is that she’s supposed to be deliciously proper, ever the perfect, pristine lady-in-waiting and the opposite of Winnifred, and Zooey was not. It didn’t help that her Harry played it so straight and didn’t at all overdo the knightly honor thing at all (I like to see him played almost as broadly as one of the Princes in “Into the Woods” — totally dead serious and hilariously chivalric).

So Zooey, for all her huge, beautiful blue eyes, left me unimpressed as Lady L.

]]> By: musicaltheatreaudition.com http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/19/once-upon-a-mattress/#comment-1149 musicaltheatreaudition.com Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:45:56 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/12/19/once-upon-a-mattress/#comment-1149 What's wrong with Zooey? I loved her voice. What’s wrong with Zooey? I loved her voice.

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