Coco Hepburn Tony Awards

Coco Hepburn

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[1814Brandan]

When Garbo refused his proposal, didn't he trash her in his diary too? Did he ever have anything nice to say about anyone?

[1814Brandan]

I think Beaton was a bit of a misogynist - he trashed Jackie Kennedy as well. He was a vicious queen in the worst kind of way.

[MegaRedcliffe]

Talent, technique, ego all mixed together to make something wonderful - not a computer production - craft and art coming together for our pleasure - Today the theatre is radio and second rate movies transferred to the stage - yesterday's mashed potatoes. No balls. No risk

[musclemike1969]

I saw this twice..and it was a brilliantly flawed show. Hepburn's inability to sing is besides the point, as it was with Rex Harrison. She WAS Chanel (and as always, she WAS Hepburn!). When the curtain came down, and the set started rotating for the curtain call, finally stopping for Hepburn after all the others had taken their bows, it was the thunder of a rock show. I felt the floors shaking in that theater. Brilliant stuff...

[douglasstumpf]

Quite a brilliant solution, really, to how do you end a musical when your star can't sing or dance.

[BTURNER1961]

I love Kate, she had a fine romance with the theater to fine notices but found her true love in movies. i have little doubt had her interests been reversed, she would have had as many Tonys as she ended up with oscars. That being said, this was the most grating cruel voice I have ever heard on a stage. Harrison,Channing,Stritch,even Glynnis Johns could carry it off. I'll bet she'd be fine otherwise. It just isn't her thing.

[gforcestp]

Glad you can appreciate this snippet, aasjb4ever, because it WAS amazing in person. Saw this as a young teenager with my mom, drug to the theatre by her, prejudices were quickly overcome when Kate came onstage. Maybe it was her legendary screen history, or her stage presence, but when she came on, you looked at nothing else. She was captivating. And, this finale was awesome. You had to listen to the first act to get why it went red. Wasn't prepared to be overcome by the power of live theatre.

[mylesag2]

So that is the famouns 'red dress' number I have heard so much about over the years. It's like a drag queen's supreme fantasy. And all that red is really quite atrocious...I mean what is the symbolism...menstraution gone wild? And when Hepburn returns to her solo...it is the MOST DIFFICULT thing to watch.

[mylesag2]

I thought Carol Channing was the worst creature in the theatre...but I was wrong. Katherine Hepburn takes the cake as the MOST DIFFICULT performer to listen to. SHe is positively odious!!  Phhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

[MonessenBandMan]

This looks like it must have been a spectacular production, but it must have been awful hard to maneuver on that rotating set! This is also gloriously long! Today at the Tony's, shows only get 3 minutes or something. The "Ragtime" performance was practically over before it had begun.

[aasjb4ever]

I wish I could have seen this, it looks amazing, just from a production standpoint

[showersinger547]

This is the first I've heard Katharine Hepburn sing since that minor thing in Bringing Up Baby with Cary Grant. (She sang "I can't give you anything but love" but not as an act, as a call to the Leopard)