Comments on: REFLECTIONS ABOUT TONYS FROM PARIS

By: MichaelT

MichaelT — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:38:33 +0000

Reviews, while helpful, are in the end one person’s (mostly) informed opinion. Over the years, I have both agreed and vehemently disagreed with several NY reviewers comments on Broadway and off-Broadway performances. The real value lies in the ability of the actors to reach over the proscenium and make an indelible mark in the minds and hearts of audience members. I think in 33 VARIATIONS you did just that. My friend and I were mesmerized by your performance and had much to talk about on the way home. Certain images and scenes will forever be marked in my memory. I do believe that the community embraced your work tremendously and that had the play, overall, been as universally well received as both “Carnage” and “Stuart” you would have walked away with the award on Tony night. Congrats on a wonderful run and here’s hoping we see you return to the stage over and over again.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:54:29 +0000

I was very saddened when you didn’t win YOUR Tony! haha But in “our defeat” as I’ve jokingly referred to it, I congratulated Marcia Gay Harden as she emerged from Radio City M.H. to the Rainbow Room. My sister and friends got very scared when I opened my mouth that the words “Tony Stealer” would come out but I surprised them. I really do like M.G.H and her amazing talent even if she is a Tony stealer.
You didn’t walk away with your little Antoinette Perry award but I got the best award that night – I saw you in person and i’m still on cloud nine!! ♥

By: Laura Daniel

Laura Daniel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:39:31 +0000

Jane, you have inspired me beyond measure. Thank you for your talent and your self.
Endless best wishes,
Laura

By: Tim C

Tim C — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:51:27 +0000

It is a rare thespian of the stage and off to have that kind of humility you have, Miss Fonda. And I think it is great that you take all your criticisms constructively. That’s really the only means to survive strong this business. I’m glad you see things in the big picture too. I hope you will do another Broadway play in the future, and get a Tony for it. You are so talented that you don’t need countless awards to prove to yourself that you are, nor prove to others.

By: Margaux Nissen Gray

Margaux Nissen Gray — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:18:18 +0000

I’m fascinated to read that you didn’t expect to win – I had such a clear visual in my head of you accepting the award. Your humility and honesty is so deeply satisfying to me – I have to say I’ve always been interested in you as an actress and a humanitarian, but I have really only become a dedicated ‘fan’ since I started reading this blog. Applause to you – enjoy Paris – and all the best with the surgery. I look forward to lots more Fonda.

By: Timothy Dougherty

Timothy Dougherty — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:48:49 +0000

hello Jane, It was nice to read the support that reader give you on this project. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton, ‘No Man Is an Island’ .Than it is about Art, I like what Jack London said:”You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” but in manyways life is a journey into the desert.a pilgrimage is a journey home. It is a return to the infinite abyss of pure reality in which our own reality is grounded,this which we exist. Art is a return to the source of all meaning and truth. It is a return to the inmost springs of life.

By: Lorna Singh

Lorna Singh — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:25:05 +0000

HI Jane
I would love to see your L’Oreal commercial in French as you have one of the best voices in film.
Do you still have friends in Paris from when you lived there?It must be fun to get together in that most wonderful of cities.
Look forward to reading about your many projects.

By: Michael Aldridge

Michael Aldridge — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:46:59 +0000

It’s wonderful to watch someone who fights to make herself grow throughout her whole life.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:14:47 +0000

Well I for one think that the play was amazing And very Tony-worthy. You all did great, and you looked amazing at the Tony’s! Holy mother of God, did you see Brett Michaels get knocked down on stage by the big sign right before Stockard Channing came out? Wow! That was awful. If you didn’t see it, or haven’t seen it yet – i’m sure you could find it online. Poor guy, I heard it broke his nose.

By: Haleema

Haleema — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:14:15 +0000

Speaking of reviews-in the album I sent you were the old ones from your films in the late 70′s-did you get a chance to see them