April 22, 2008
Coco Returns (Minus the God-Awful Singing)
Famous for being Katherine Hepburn's first and last Broadway musical (at 3:06 you'll see why), Alan Jay Lerner and André Previn's play about designer (and alleged Nazi sympathizer) Coco Chanel, Coco, gets a second chance this Saturday. Set in the mid '50s when Chanel was considered a has-been, Coco decides to make a return to the world of high fashion. And, according to Wikipedia, "with her new collection derided by the critics, she faces bankruptcy until buyers from four major American department stores - Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Best & Company, and Ohrbach's - place orders with her."
Sweeney Todd this is this not.
But 42nd Street Moon, the sacred San Francisco theater company that breathes new life into rare and/or unusual musicals, has cabaret legend Andrea Marcovicci in the title role, so it's bound to sound a hundred times better than Ms. Hepburn's not so chic caterwauling.
What: Coco
When: opens Saturday, runs through 5/11
Where: Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson
Cost: $22-$38.
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Dude, that clip was painful.
Oh god. Ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod.
cat-kill chanel
Holy shit... that was once a real-person name and not a drag queen name?
I was loving this until 3:06.
it looks like a good musical (it was directed by michael bennett, and i've now just admitted way too much), but, yeah, kate's speak-singing is grating.
I kind of liked Rex Harrison's speak-singing in My Fair Lady.