I love Karen Akers - Democratic Underground

libnnc

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Mon Jun-05-06 02:24 AM
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I love Karen Akers

Watching her performance at Wolf Trap now on tee-vee.

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Patiod

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Mon Jun-05-06 08:08 AM
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1. Saw her at a cabaret in New Hope - she was wonderful

Heard an interview with her on "Fresh Air", where she was saying that she was never comfortable with her size (about 6'). Tommy Tune (no munchkin himself) hired her to play a countess in "Grand Hotel", and was frustrated because she wasn't sweeping about the stage, using her cloak for the grand gestures he was looking for. "Karen, I did not hire you because you were petite" she recalled him saying, and she says that from that point on, she began to relish her size, rather than try to dimish it.

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libnnc

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Mon Jun-05-06 09:12 AM
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2. I wanted to see her in "Grand Hotel".

My mom and I were in NYC when she was in the show but I couldn't talk mom into getting tickets.

We saw "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and "Lettice & Lovage" (Maggie Smith was out of this world!) instead.

I read that Akers started out as a folk singer--guitar and everything. I had no idea.

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Patiod

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Mon Jun-05-06 09:48 AM
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3. I'm jealous you got to see "Lettice & Lovage"!

Didn't know about the folk singing either.

My cousin, his boyfriend, and a female friend were in "Jacques Brel is Alive & Well & Living in Paris" together when they were in high school, and they went on to form a cabaret group (kind of "Manhatten Transfer" like) and played around NYC in the late 70's/early 80's. I was raving about Karen Akers to him recently, and he laughed and said they used to appear at all the same clubs together all the time when they were both just starting out in cabaret.

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