Originally Posted by nancy1975:
“Can we all join the real world here and stop with the 'real woman' rubbish? It's tough in showbiz.
Pavarotti had a big voice and he was a big man as are a lot of opera singers. Glamour isn't essential to opera.
Maria Callas was an exception.
But in the West End glamour is pretty much bloody essential along with the voice and everything else.
I can see Jodie coping with Nancy. She could do a good Mama Morton in Chicago. But she ain't going to go onto any other lead role in musicals that I can think of that call for a knockout figure along with singing and dancing.”
“Can we all join the real world here and stop with the 'real woman' rubbish? It's tough in showbiz.
Pavarotti had a big voice and he was a big man as are a lot of opera singers. Glamour isn't essential to opera.
Maria Callas was an exception.
But in the West End glamour is pretty much bloody essential along with the voice and everything else.
I can see Jodie coping with Nancy. She could do a good Mama Morton in Chicago. But she ain't going to go onto any other lead role in musicals that I can think of that call for a knockout figure along with singing and dancing.”
People seem to be trying to claim Jodie is not Nancy because of her weight. That I think has nothing to do with it. Its her movement and acting skills that are deficient. Of the final thrree she was probably just about the best but did not fit the remit of the production ie a new & different Nancy.
As you say she will probably just about cope but she is not West End Talent by a country mile.





