{"id":319,"date":"2008-11-29T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/11\/the-definitive-eve.html"},"modified":"2008-11-29T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T04:53:00","slug":"the-definitive-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"The Definitive Eve&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so <em>Applause <\/em>isn&#8217;t exactly brilliance. In fact, considering the rather leaden Encores! concert from last season, it&#8217;s far from it<em>. <\/em>However, what is brilliance is Penny Fuller&#8217;s interpretation of the role of Eve. In fact, it is the only thing that keeps the telemovie version of the musical afloat. (From what I&#8217;ve been told, Tony winner Lauren Bacall was worlds better live in performance than she is here). For as much as I enjoy the film, I feel after having seen the Eves of Anne Baxter, Penny Fuller and Little Evie &#8211; er Erin Davie&#8230; that Fuller best encapsulates the character. She only gets to sing two numbers, including this ferociously explosive ironic reprise of &#8220;But Alive&#8221; toward the end of the second act that brought down the house (preceding the dead on arrival &#8220;Something Greater&#8221; for Lauren Bacall to all but resign herself to June Cleaver&#8217;s kitchen). I have to admit, it&#8217;s not a strong song as written but she sure as hell sells it.<\/p>\n<p>Penny still looks fantastic and is giving one of the most honest performances on a NY stage right now in <em>Dividing the Estate <\/em>(look for more on that in the near future). She also gets to sing a little but, sounding exactly as she did almost forty years ago which prompts the question: why hasn&#8217;t she been in any musicals lately?<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aBPt3YwJSNI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aBPt3YwJSNI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so Applause isn&#8217;t exactly brilliance. In fact, considering the rather leaden Encores! concert from last season, it&#8217;s far from it. However, what is brilliance is Penny Fuller&#8217;s interpretation of the role of Eve. In fact, it is the only thing that keeps the telemovie version of the musical afloat. (From what I&#8217;ve been told, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Definitive Eve&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1582,1580],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-applause","tag-penny-fuller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}