Should have been amazing, but where energy and emotion mattered, she was hollow...
Veronica was adorable, Brad was adorable, Riff Raff was great dialog, horrible singing, Columbia was fun, Magenta was barely passable, Rocky was forgettable, Dr Scott was the stand out.
Laverne was disturbingly sociopathic
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She's an awful actress. Watch her on Orange Is The New Black... so bad
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Totally agree. Plus, what was with the strange accent?
The whole thing didn't work for me.
Get away from her, you BITCH!!!
She lacked that over the top energy that Tim Curry put into the character.
shareShe destroyed the floor show. I had to watch the last 10-15 mins of the original to get back to Tim and forget her.
shareThe floor show was odd. They don't look like Michaelangos David which takes away the creationism motif. Yet they tried to replace it with the hand of creation, yet Rocky climbing to the rko tower in the original harkens back to science fiction double feature..... So they just destroyed all the symbolism for some wire work and TACKY cgi... TOTALLY PISSED ME OFF
There were some notes she sang high but transgender or not, it sounded too much like thru tried to make her sing with a male bass voice.
Also there were a couple of classic lines that lacked all energy
Frank: I didn't make him for YOU!!
Columbia : I've seen it!! (Re: Frank's Lab)
The girl sounded anemic
And the theatre audience didn't work either
I have criticized her casting flatly on the basis that she's a woman (or trans-woman) and was 100% unfit for the role by that alone. She was stunt cast in a day where somehow 40 years later they're afraid to put a man in fishnets on TV(?).
I did however post here that I would watch it just for Tim's sake. AND I said I would mea culpa if I actually liked it, or parts of it. I'm honest that way and I've been wrong before, once. But as to Cox, the STAR... THE LEADING ROLE OF A MUSICAL... she was so dreadful it hurt.
Ignoring the fact that she was a woman, improperly costumed for any Frank and physically did a drag queen bump & grind that wasn't in character for Frank... her musical phrasing bordered on an imitation of Curry and a parody of his performance. She's not a singer. Her acting though was more cringe-worthy, so (inadvertently it seems) so over the top she may as well been in a stage production of "Female Trouble".
Here's the REAL problem with Laverne Cox being CAST as Frank N. Furter. She wanted it. As a youngster she said “she mimed to it” and “played” Frank...the way MOST of us did! Playing soundtracks and becoming Maria and Capt. Von Trapp, or Danny and Sandy or Roxie & Velma. Or we were Auntie Mame or Mama Rose, Cinderella in our own little corner or.... you get the idea! :v
But guess what? Beyond miming we don't always GET what we WANT. We can dream it but can't ALWAYS be it. As much as I want to play Sandy in “Grease”, because I have her down-pat rehearsing around my house... someone has to play Doody! And Jan. We don't and should all get the “starring role” we covet, theater would be chaos.
(Sorry so long, I'm thorough.)
Riff Raff:
Perfect facial expressions and dialog, but singing was just wrong throughout.
"Flow morphia" was over the top cringe
"Its astounding... time is fleeting..." lacked all creepiness
FrankN Furter:
The headdress entrance turned her hair in to a pinhead
No emotion anywhere in the dialog, no emphasis anywhere in speech, quite disappointing
Death of Eddie... awful, no energy from Cox or creativity
Columbia:
Mostly okay but her "He's okay" was flat and her death was overly melodramatic in a very bad way