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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 14:58:37 GMT
Maybe you can't have an EGOT without an ego? Bless her, she's only an Oscar away and three of the four awards will be for the same role. Shows how much she has done really. And one of those was just for turning up on GMTV on a Wednesday morning or something like that wasn't it? Good God, they'll be giving Piers Morgan and Richard Arnold an Emmy for sharing a sofa next.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 15:55:23 GMT
The thug with Cynthia is she has a mega foghorn for a voice but she isn't the best actor. She has a formula, same arrow pointing, not but subtext and although she is a great vocal talent - she lacks in acting. She is best at belting... interesting to see what her next steps are. Horrible to hear if she is a diva We don't often agree but we do here. Her acting is fine, passable, decent. Nothing special. Her incredible voice carries her. Maybe I'll be proven wrong in some of her films but I wasn't convinced she deserved the Tony until she belted out I'm Here at the very end. I think all four other nominees gave better acting performances.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 16:25:45 GMT
Bless her, she's only an Oscar away and three of the four awards will be for the same role. Shows how much she has done really. And one of those was just for turning up on GMTV on a Wednesday morning or something like that wasn't it? Good God, they'll be giving Piers Morgan and Richard Arnold an Emmy for sharing a sofa next. It was a Daytime Emmy shared with The Color Purple cast for a performance on a GMTV equivalent in America. She's not quite Julia Louis-Dreyfus even if she thinks she is
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 16:32:16 GMT
I hope, for her own sake and ego, she never wins an Oscar.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 17:03:36 GMT
God help her if she ever gets to be really famous, instead of just theatre-famous. She'd never cope with tabloids, if posts on a message board get a rise out of her! She's got a couple of films coming up and I wouldn't be surprised if they try and get her that EGOT. To be fair that Emmy was for 'Best Musical Performance in a Daytime Program'. It was a group win, which was given to the cast of The Color Purple. It baffles me that some people out there pretend that it was a personal award for Cynthia. That has only added to her already massive arrogance.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 17:17:25 GMT
She's got a couple of films coming up and I wouldn't be surprised if they try and get her that EGOT. To be fair that Emmy was for 'Best Musical Performance in a Daytime Program'. It was a group win, which was given to the cast of The Color Purple. It baffles me that some people out there pretend that it was a personal award for Cynthia. That has only added to her already massive arrogance. It was also a Daytime Emmy when almost all of the EGOT winners have won a Primetime Emmy. It's very rare to win 3 out of the 4 for the same role, typically you get people who give an amazing performance in a film, TV show, stage show AND on an album, as opposed to spending a year in a Broadway show and picking up 3 for just that.
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Post by d'James on Sept 4, 2017 17:32:37 GMT
Maybe they should just make The Color Purple musical into a film and get it over and done with.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 19:23:42 GMT
Maybe they should just make The Color Purple musical into a film and get it over and done with. I hope you're not assuming she'd reprise her role. How dare you!
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Post by d'James on Sept 4, 2017 19:27:44 GMT
Maybe they should just make The Color Purple musical into a film and get it over and done with. I hope you're not assuming she'd reprise her role. How dare you! If some tweeted her that she was in their (Sega) dreamcast for the role, I can imagine her tweet back: 'Well, duh!'
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Post by poster J on Sept 4, 2017 19:28:52 GMT
She's got a couple of films coming up and I wouldn't be surprised if they try and get her that EGOT. To be fair that Emmy was for 'Best Musical Performance in a Daytime Program'. It was a group win, which was given to the cast of The Color Purple. It baffles me that some people out there pretend that it was a personal award for Cynthia. That has only added to her already massive arrogance. I thought the whole issue was that they only gave it to her as the "featured singer" rather than to the whole cast who performed, same as with the Emmy. It was a really good performance, but hardly Emmy-worthy...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 19:42:46 GMT
To be fair that Emmy was for 'Best Musical Performance in a Daytime Program'. It was a group win, which was given to the cast of The Color Purple. It baffles me that some people out there pretend that it was a personal award for Cynthia. That has only added to her already massive arrogance. I thought the whole issue was that they only gave it to her as the "featured singer" rather than to the whole cast who performed, same as with the Emmy. It was a really good performance, but hardly Emmy-worthy... Oh, I thought it was a group award.
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Post by michalnowicki on Sept 4, 2017 20:04:20 GMT
I hope you're not assuming she'd reprise her role. How dare you! If some tweeted her that she was in their (Sega) dreamcast for the role, I can imagine her tweet back: 'Well, duh!' I think she would be a great Nettie or Squeak!
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Post by d'James on Sept 4, 2017 21:19:08 GMT
If some tweeted her that she was in their (Sega) dreamcast for the role, I can imagine her tweet back: 'Well, duh!' I think she would be a great Nettie or Squeak! Imagine if they just gave her a non-speaking cameo.
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Post by poster J on Sept 5, 2017 7:34:51 GMT
I thought the whole issue was that they only gave it to her as the "featured singer" rather than to the whole cast who performed, same as with the Emmy. It was a really good performance, but hardly Emmy-worthy... Oh, I thought it was a group award. I might be wrong, but certainly with the Grammy only Cynthia, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Hudson as the "featured singers" actually got awards.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 14:35:20 GMT
She is just the sort of person who would sadly attract a lot of twitter trolls if she became mainstream famous. We joke about getting a reaction from her on here but others would do it and it wouldn't be subtle.
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Post by d'James on Sept 6, 2017 14:38:00 GMT
She is just the sort of person who would sadly attract a lot of twitter trolls if she became mainstream famous. We joke about getting a reaction from her on here but others would do it and it wouldn't be subtle. Yeah, but she'd get justification from the people she thinks matter, so what's the problem?!
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Post by stageyninja83 on Oct 19, 2017 17:33:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 18:31:53 GMT
I'm too lazy to google on behalf of Ms E but weren't the Color Purple reviews in London...good?
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Post by talkstageytome on Oct 19, 2017 20:08:13 GMT
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Post by daniel on Oct 19, 2017 23:46:23 GMT
Do we think that the UK is afraid to see a group of black people on stage?
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Post by poster J on Oct 20, 2017 0:16:12 GMT
So basically what she's saying is she doesn't care about what the sold-out audiences thought of her performance in London, all that matters is whether every single critic gives her love. Says a lot about her really, doesn't it?
She's clearly also not aware of the fact that we currently have a very successful production of Dreamgirls running and New York doesn't, as well as an all-black cast of Guys and Dolls announced, both of which make her comments look a bit strange to say the least...
All I care about in theatre is seeing people who are good at their jobs, which is something that has nothing to do with race, colour or any type of creed. I suspect I'm not too far off in assuming most theatregoers would agree with me...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 7:51:42 GMT
Well surely 3/4 * reviews for something that is for obvious reasons a bit more of a challenging watch than say 42nd Street a pretty good show? The Color Purple as an actual musical isn't the greatest written piece of work on the planet, but Doyle's direction and the cast turned it into something better than it was (in my opinion, if that makes sense).
ANYWAY I as an actor would consider a crop of 3/4 star reviews a decent success? it's not like she'd been in a constant run of 5* shows until then so surely she knows a) such things are relative b) critics aren't everything. The show either sold out or damn close to it in London and got amazing audience feedback...so quite your complaining Miss E.
As for 'is the UK afraid of Black people' ....Serious answer no. We have a serious lack of diversity on stage in a lot of instances/overall but I think that's a fault of producers, directors etc not a fault of audiences, there's no evidence that people shy away from any shows that have BAME casts. And it makes me angry that she's directing her (justified) anger at a lack of parts etc at the wrong place. Audiences aren't getting a chance to see enough Black actors on stage, that's the fault of the people in charge, we can only 'vote with our feet' and see Black actors when they are on stage, so I think Miss E needs to have a rant about people not being put on stage instead of accusing the whole theatre audiences of the uk of being a bunch of racists (there are of course racists there but we aren't all racist)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 13:46:07 GMT
"No one knew what to do with me in the UK".
What a surprise. I think the main reason why she feels better in the US is because Americans are very skilled at putting up with divas.
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Post by The Matthew on Oct 20, 2017 14:57:16 GMT
"No one knew what to do with me in the UK". The fact that she prefers being in the US suggests that we knew exactly what to do with her, and it worked.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 14:59:22 GMT
"No one knew what to do with me in the UK". The fact that she prefers being in the US suggests that we knew exactly what to do with her, and it worked. The trouble is they might eventually send her BACK.
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Post by The Matthew on Oct 20, 2017 15:04:28 GMT
The fact that she prefers being in the US suggests that we knew exactly what to do with her, and it worked. The trouble is they might eventually send her BACK. Who's up for a game of Diva Tennis?
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Post by musicalmarge on Nov 1, 2017 7:40:04 GMT
Do we think that the UK is afraid to see a group of black people on stage? Dreamgirls, 5 Guys Named Mo, Mowtown, Hamilton, Lion King and the new Guys and Dolls at the Manchester Royal Exhange? Hm...
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Post by daniel on Nov 1, 2017 9:22:26 GMT
Do we think that the UK is afraid to see a group of black people on stage? Dreamgirls, 5 Guys Named Mo, Mowtown, Hamilton, Lion King and the new Guys and Dolls at the Manchester Royal Exhange? Hm... that's exactly my point!
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Post by raiseitup on Nov 2, 2017 22:26:56 GMT
Namecheck! I always thought the first rule of Theatreboard is you do not talk about Theatreboard –
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 10:27:43 GMT
Um, what the hell did this guy do wrong???
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