This version just makes me uncomfortable. Julie seems so awkward and I just find it so unnerving. It's a shame, because there has never been a role in which I did not LOVE Julie's performance, until this one.
My favorite will always be the 1965 version with Stuart Damon and Lesley Ann Warren.
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Jon Cypher's voice is way better than Stuart Damon's. And this is coming from a longtime Stuart Damon fan. But in my opinion, Stuart's voice can't hold a candle to Jon's. Jon was going to study opera and it shows. His voice is so much more fluid. I've listened to Stuart's and his voice is thready and not as strong as Jon's.
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Julie seemed fine to me. If there was any evident discomfort on her part, it was undoubtedly due to the show being broadcast live. Considering what MIGHT have happened, they pulled it off exceptionally well. That said, the Lesley Ann Warren version (which I saw when it was first broadcast, (and every time thereafter)is my favorite.
shareI think she’s very good. I also think the production very different. It was much more a musical comedy than the ‘65 version, e.g. “Impossible” is playing for laughs more than emotion. It also seems to concentrate more on musical performance than portraying the emotions of the story, as seen in “In My Own Little Corner.” And It’s a bulky production, with repeated reprises of songs.
TV was still in a very early age. This production was groundbreaking for its time, but I sort of think that over the next few years Rogers and Hammerstein gained perspective and thought of ways to improve what they created in 1957. Restructuring the story, adding scenes, cutting the fat, honing the central moments