Melora Hardin ‘Chicago’ Ticket Giveaway
Friday, December 19th, 2008 | 134 comments
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Here’s your chance to win tickets to watch The Office’s Melora Hardin perform in the hit Broadway musical Chicago!
“Hey there everyone at OfficeTally! I’m so excited to play Roxie Hart and also so happy that two lucky Office fans will get free tickets through OfficeTally. Good luck and definitely meet me at the stage door after the show and bring your favorite pics for me to sign! Look forward to seeing you there!” — Melora/Roxie
Sound awesome? Read on.
Task
Describe your favorite Jan Levenson moment in ‘The Office.’
Rules
- Submit your entry by adding a comment to this post.
- One entry per person. If you post multiple entries, you will be disqualified.
- Provide a valid email address.
- You must live in the NYC area or be able to travel on your own to NYC to see the performance of CHICAGO. Transportation not provided.
- Tickets are for select performances in January only.
- Rules and deadlines subject to change without notice.
Prizes
- Grand Prize: A pair of tickets to see Melora Hardin in Chicago on Broadway and an exclusive CHICAGO prize package.
- 5 Runners-up: CHICAGO CD/DVD box set.
Deadline to submit your entry
Submit your entry by Saturday, December 27, 11pm PT.
Winners will be randomly selected and announced on Monday, December 29th!
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My favorite Jan moment was when Jan was sitting on the train with Michael at the end of Money.
Favorite Jan moment: When Jan got mad at Pam for seeing Michael’s penis and thinking that Pam was trying to steal him away from her!
Melora is such a fantastic actress, and I think my favorite performance from her comes from “The Client.” Her facial expressions are brilliant. I especially love the proud look she has when Michael seals the deal with Tim Meadows’ character.
My favorite Jan moment is her reaction to Michael putting up his St. Pauly’s Girl beer sign right in the middle of dinner during “Dinner Party”. Classic!
I can’t enter the contest but I have to reply because Jan and Michael and Jan together were what drew me in to watching the office. The sweetest and most meaningful Jan scenes are when you have a glimpse of how she truly feels about Michael. The character is so adept at hiding her feelings and Melora portrays Jan’s icy self-control so well that you really have to watch to see how Jan truly feels. In “Branch Closing” Michael bursts into hysterical tears and Jan is seemingly composed. As Michael pulls a tissue out of his desk, Jan looks down for a moment with her mouth drawn downward in pain showing she truly is agonizing at having to hurt Michael by telling him such painful news. The Negotiation when Jan looks toward the camera before telling Michael how to get a raise was significant because Jan realized exactly what she was doing and that she was being recorded. For the first time she showed that Michael was more important to her than her job, and that her feelings for him perhaps ran deeper than she even realized at the time.
In ‘Back from Vacation,’ after she’s told Michael that she, for whatever reason, wants to be with him, Michael stops her just before she leaves and says (and signs) “You complete me.” Jan pauses a moment and as she turns away, she quietly says “Oh dear God.” That is my favorite moment. It’s sublimely acted – understated and completely real.
My favorite Jan moment is from “Cocktails.”
Jan’s conversation with the camera before heading in to the Wallace house is one of those early moments that confirm Jan’s spiral towards instability and overall craziness.
“I am taking a calculated risk. What’s the upside? I overcome my nausea, fall deeply in love, babies, normalcy, no more self-loathing. What’s the downside? I date Michael Scott publicly and collapse on myself like a dying star.”
Looking back, the progression of Jan’s character from high-powered executive to sweatsuit-wearing crazy woman is brilliant. The fact that she thinks that by dating Michael she’ll achieve normalcy in her life is just so backward, and it will forever be my most prized Jan scene!
P.S. Break a leg with Chicago, Melora!
My favorite Jan moment comes at the end of “The Dinner Party.” It’s a silent shot but it speaks volumes. She is sitting on the couch, gluing Michael’s broken Dundie back together.
She is surrounded by the aftermath of her erratic behavior, trying to exert some control over the debris that her life has become. It’s mostly the mess of her own making, and she might hate these Dundies and all that they represent (Michael’s ridiculousness, pièce de résistance in her otherwise perfect decoration scheme), but she also has that soft spot for the cheap trinket, because of what else it represents (Michael’s infectious enthusiasm and the joy he radiates at the silliest things in life, the warmth Jan is drawn to).
Gluing that silly statue back together is an act of faith and supreme futility. It’s surprisingly beautiful. And that’s Jan in all her contradictions: vitriol, frustration, destruction and, somehow, unending hope and grace.
My favorite Jan moment is in “Dinner Party” when she starts swaying to ‘That One Night’. It’s so awkward and surprising.
My favorite Jan moment is from Money…when she speeds up to the parking lot, throws the keys at Oscar, and runs after Michael. Their conversation on the “runaway train” was probably the most human, sympathetic Jan moment ever on the show. :)
Favorite Jan moment: At the meeting with Michael and Tim Meadows, when they are singing about Baby Back Ribs, and Jan just has this look on her face.
Jan’s dancing to Hunters song in Dinner party is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. Then when she gabs Jim’s hand to dance and he doesn’t budge;its so cringe-worthy. Its so subtle but it must have took courage to do it. Great preparation for her role in Chicago!:)
My favorite Jan moment occured in ‘The Deposition’. Its actually more of a Michael/Jan moment. Those two have such great chemistry…it makes for great moments! They are quietly discussing the fact that Jan brought Michael’s diary and showed it to everyone. Jan reminds Michael that he emailed a topless photo of her to half the company. They decide to call it even and without making eye contact Michael state “I love you”, Jan replies “I love you too.” And they walk away in different directions!
“If I was twenty-two and I had lots of time to have lots of children, sure, then let Michael have a shot at one of them. But honestly, I need to make this one count.”
I loved this whole scene so much. Mostly because I myself was born through donor insemination and I swear I’ve heard my mom say stuff like this before. =D
Without a doubt when Jan puts on Hunter’s song during “Dinner Party” and then starts dancing to it…awesome!
I love it (but also find it extremely depressing) when Jan is trying to name everything Michael is “above average” at, but all she can think of is ice skating.
Good luck as “Roxie” in Chicago!
My favorite Jan moment is when she brings her baby into the office for the baby shower and serenades everyone with “Son of a Preacher Man”!
I love the end of Money, with Jan and Michael on the stopped train with their feet dangling. Jan seems so normal, and the moment is very cute for the two of them. But the best part is after the heartfelt conversation, Michael requests that Jan keep her implants, and she does despite the fact that they hurt. To me that is cute and hysterical at the same time.
My favorite Jan moment:
“Why is this so hard…that’s what she said. Oh my god, what am I saying.”
There’s that moment before Jan says ‘that’s what she said’ where she can’t seem to find an answer as to why it’s so hard for her to date Michael. It seems like it was kind of a cop-out to actually having to think about the answer to the question, but it also shows that Michael is starting to have an effect on the way she thinks. I think it’s a very cute moment.
I have lots of favorite Jan moments, but since I have to pick one I’m going with a scene from “Money”. I really like the part whenever Jan comes to pick Michael up from “improv” and she gets out and tells him to drive because he’s had too much to drink. She was supposed to go to yoga but you know she spent the whole time curled up with a bottle of wine. So they were both kind of keeping secrets from each other about where they were. And Jan’s look to the camera when she’s walking around the car is priceless :)