More surprisingly, she's got a great singing voice.
I first saw her in the National Theatre production of "Guys and Dolls" in the early 1980s. Bob Hoskins was Nathan Detroit, Julia MacKenzie was Miss Adelaide and Imelda was the smallest of the Hot Box girls. I sat in one of the front rows and caught a piece of somebody's costume as they stripped it off.
I've seen some great musical theatre since then, but nothing that can really top that.
I tivoed Stage Beauty off of IFC and just watched it.
Wow.
I wish I had more words.
I also wish that I had seen it in the theatre.
I went to see Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day yesterday and loved it. Frances McDormand and Amy Adams were both great in their roles. (I wasn't as thrilled by Lee Pace or any of the male actors, but they were relatively small parts of the film.) Shirley Henderson is remarkably convincing as a humorless and downright nasty person, despite most of the previous roles I've seen her in being goofily chipper.
I went to see Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day yesterday and loved it.
Really? Because the trailers left me with no desire to see it, but it is playing at my local theater, so I almost went this past weekend.
Awwwwwwwwwww. Totally old-school.
we've been watching Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and I am getting so excited! When the trailer plays at work people clap for the theme tune.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has started shooting again.
Excellent. Also nice to see that Tom Waits is in the cast. I can't remember if I've seen him in anything since Mystery Men.