I hate her

No, no, no... not Suzanne!

I'm talking about Donna Murphy.

You don't know her.

For several years, quite a few actually, I've enjoyed the original cast album from a show that Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green did back around 1950 or 1951 called Wonderful Town. The late and amazing Rosalind Russell was in that cast as Ruth Sherwood, the Ohio know-it-all, who with her sister Eileen go to New York in 1935 to win over the town.

The show was terrific in 1950, and there was a cast album recorded that disappeared for many years. In the 1990s, it was finally released on CD, and in 2003, they -- whoever "they" is in New York -- decided to revive the show for the first time in nearly half a century.

The show opened, with Donna Murphy playing Ros Russell's classic role, and the show ran for a year or two. I saw it with my old girlfried Terri (think in between Penny and Melody). But by that time, Brooke Shields, of all people, had replaced Murphy in the role, and she was terrific. She had obviously listened to the old cast album from 1951.

Well, a month or so ago, I bought the CD of the cast album from the original cast of the revival in 2003, with Donna Murphy in the role.

I hate her.

Nasal, self-important, no presence. I am goddamn glad I didn't see the show with her as Ruth Sherwood.

If I wasn't such a completist, I'd put the CD in Avery's mailbox along with the shitty Arizona Jack's beef jerky from last week.

Well, that, and I spent $12 on it, and he doesn't have a CD player.

I am quite disappointed. I may remove it from my iPod. What's interesting is that when you tell iTunes 7.x to go get the album art for the CD, it doesn't go and get the very purple 2003 jacket... it retrieves the 1951 album's cover art. It fools me now... I think I'll hear Rosalind Russell, and instead it's Donna Murphy.

Fark.

I say "fark" a lot lately.