![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No, what you saw was what you got: a brilliantly charismatic woman (which is what Coco was supposed to have been like anyway), so it worked.Ĭecil Beaton’s charming poster design for “Coco.” Of course, Hepburn made not even the slightest effort to portray herself as French. According to my “Play Evaluation Sheet!” (exclamation point all my own), this was my 43rd Broadway show and I sat in G 111, the 4th to last row of the balcony. I think I meant “she can hold the audience in the palm of her hand,” but you get the idea. Of Katharine Hepburn, I wrote in my review: “Her performance in this musical which, for all intents and purposes is a bummer, is the most amazing acting performance I’ve seen … the way she can hold the stage in the palm of her hand, singing in her raspy voice (which I find beautiful) will have you in tears when she sings the title song.” And as a twelve-year-old, I saw it from the last row of the glorious Mark Hellinger Theatre * on December 31, 1969: the afternoon of a New Year’s Eve I will never forget. Everyone wanted to see Hepburn in a musical, and even after mediocre reviews, Coco was a sell-out. Hepburn’s performance as Coco was an example of star power superseding the show that surrounded her (which was not very good). Katharine Hepburn as Coco Chanel in “Coco” (1969). ![]()
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