Priscilla Lopez To Join "Pippin" As "Berthe"
Priscilla Lopez To Join "Pippin" As "Berthe"
#1Priscilla Lopez To Join "Pippin" As "Berthe"
Posted: 7/10/14 at 12:30pm
This is great news! She's on for a limited engagement: July 22, 2014-- August 27, 2014.
Priscilla Lopez as Berthe
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
Updated On: 7/10/14 at 12:30 PM
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
Thparkaly
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/12
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#4Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/10/14 at 9:45pmGood for her! Saw her early last year in a regional production of SOMEWHERE which was written by her nephew. She's still got it. She'll be great.
#5Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/10/14 at 11:21pmI saw her in Somewhere as well! Really wonderful performance.
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#6Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/10/14 at 11:24pmThis is definitely exciting news! I think she'll be great. I still wish Jackie Hoffman would've been given a crack at this part. She would've been a riot. I recall that she tweeted something along the lines of "Pippin not having room for her on their trapeze" a while back, though, so it seems as if that won't be happening. Regardless, congrats to Priscilla!
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#7Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/11/14 at 7:48amI really would like if Jackie Hoffman joins she is really funny and I think she could do a lot with the part!
#8Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/11/14 at 10:11am
Lopez is such great casting. I can't wait to see her in the role.
Speaking of people with connections to the original production of PIPPIN, Betty Buckley would make a wonderful Berthe.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#9Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/11/14 at 12:04pmgiven her limited run, I conjecture that she might go out on the tour.
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#11Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/11/14 at 2:23pmI would love it if she went on the tour!
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DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#12Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/11/14 at 2:34pmI get the sentimental and emotional appeal of her. But I have always found her to give performances that are stiff and don't connect. And at times over the top. Check out her singing her chorus line "Nothing" number in the Broadway Divas" Carnergie Hall thing. Just my opinion.
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#13Priscilla Lopez To Join
Posted: 7/11/14 at 10:44pmI can't see Betty Buckley doing the Trapeze Work.
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