|
|
Post by Natasha on Aug 15, 2005 20:06:26 GMT
Here's yet another poll, sorry for making so many of them but there really fun! lol.
|
|
|
|
Post by Richard on Aug 16, 2005 7:38:24 GMT
Hello Natasha!  I'm not a great lover of musicals or anything with a story because I tend to lose the plot, so I voted for Maria in the Sound of Music because I like some of the songs. Actually I believe Hayley has already played a role in the King and I, when she was a lot younger. Best Wishes from London, Richard  |
|
|
|
Post by portia on Aug 16, 2005 8:58:45 GMT
Can I say I don't think any of the roles suit her?
|
|
|
|
Post by roger on Aug 16, 2005 12:33:28 GMT
Hi Natasha, Please don't apologise for starting another poll. On the contrary - keep 'em coming.  Maybe in time you could start one which asks, "Which was the most popular poll?"  Roger |
|
|
|
Post by Oksana on Aug 16, 2005 18:27:30 GMT
Shamefully, I haven't heard the last two roles; but between Phantom and The Sound of Music, I chose the latter. I think it suits personality more, and if she were given that role she would bring something really new and unique to the musical.
|
|
|
|
Post by kcuteus1 on Aug 16, 2005 19:32:37 GMT
I put Maria in West Side Story as that is one of my fav musicals.
|
|
|
|
Post by fusilier23 on Aug 19, 2005 2:58:46 GMT
Definitely Christine, she'd have been great, not to mention believeable as a ballerina, as opposed to another singer who might have been a bit too tubby to be up to the task...
|
|
|
|
Post by Natasha on Aug 21, 2005 18:23:20 GMT
At the moment the role of Christine seems the overall favorite leading with about 6 votes. The least popular would have to be the role of Anne from "King and I."
I personally think the role of Christine is something Hayley would be very good at especially as the role generally requires someone of her voice type and as Steven has mentioned, Hayley actually did do ballet.
I think a production of "Phantom" on PBS starring Hayley as Christine would be very, highly enjoyable and Hayley doesn't seem to be opposed to singing in productions as I heard she'll be singing in the West End.
What do the rest of you think? Should PBS try to arrange something like this? Hmmm... sounds like the beginnings of yet another poll!
|
|
|
|
Post by Oksana on Sept 10, 2005 1:19:49 GMT
Hmm... it looks like the two of us who voted for Sound of Music may get our wish. Look at this quote from an interview in the Media section of this forum:
Q: Will you eventually sing in operas?
Westernra: It’s hard to know whether I would go into the classical repertoire more seriously in the future. I am very happy where I am, discovering and experimenting new things.
It’s too soon to stick to one musical style. Maybe I will do that in a few years’ time. I am a lyric soprano (a female voice category that is light and colourful) and there are beautiful opera arias out there that I’d love to sing one day — The Flower Duet (from Delibes’ opera Lakme) is one of them (she hums the tune).
I also enjoy watching operas when I have the time. My favourite is Puccini’s La Boheme — I sang in the children’s choir for a New Zealand production when I was a child.
Another opera I love is Puccini’s Madame Butterfly — tragic but wonderful. I am also interested in musical theatres. My all-time favourite musical is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music.
I hope to be able to play Maria one day, maybe in a West End production. I miss the variety of musicals and the opportunity to express myself on stage as a performer.
The first musical production I starred in was Annie, where I played one of the orphans holding a dead mouse. So I may consider musicals as one of my options too — I don’t know.
|
|
|
|
Post by baxfield7 on Sept 10, 2005 17:34:29 GMT
I have this vision.
Picture the Heavenly Host, sitting around doing nothing, looking very bored.
Enter the Archangel Gabriel, "What are you lot doing, looking so bored and miserable ?"
"Waiting for Hayley, without her we are incomplete !"
Barrie
|
|
|
|
Post by fusilier23 on Oct 16, 2005 1:49:14 GMT
BTW, Tashi, the name of the character is Anna Leonowens in "The King and I." I have seen the whole thing through, and although a lot of the music is the kind you walk out of the theater humming, the story is about as cheerless as you can get, with floggings, clashes of wills that turn ugly, a pair of doomed lovers, and of course the King's less-than-uplifting fate. And this against the background of colonialism closing in on Siam, the one and only country in Indochina that did not become a colony.
|
|
