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Susan Egan, boasting an impeccable, declasse Chelsea accent, is the perfect Sally Bowles. |
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-Clive Barnes, NY Post |
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Susan
Egan has replaced ... Jennifer Jason Leigh, who replaced Tony
Award-winning Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles, and, as rumored,
Egan may be the best one yet. Better known as the original Belle in
"Beauty and the Beast" -- how's that for typecasting? --
Egan is this concept's first Sally to be as much a singer as an
actress. She has a knockout gamine waif-Olive Oyl flounce to her,
and ... it is a pleasure to hear somebody in this revival sing the
guts out of Kander and Ebb's wicked and magnificent songs. |
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Linda Winer, Newsday |
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The new cast members ... are a potent group of celebrantes. Chief among them is Susan Egan, a slip of an actress whose powerouse voice scorches listeners with a terrifying version of the title song. Her rendition will change the way you hear it from now on. Her Sally is defiantly, almost strenuously
hedonistic.
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-Michael Kuchwara, Associated
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The show
finally has a Sally Bowles who can both act and really sing: Susan
Egan. The singer from "Beauty and the Beast"
surprisingly finds new dimension of real strength and presence
here; she's heading straight for disaster, of course, but she
doesn't care. She's more believable and more likable than Natasha
Richardson, and when she belts out the show's two great torch
songs -- "Maybe This Time" (actually written for the
movie) and the heavily ironic "Cabaret" -- they move you
as they did not before. Unlike her predecessors, she makes Liza
Minelli a distant (ands irrelevant) memory. |
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