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Life After Patti?
OrdinaryJukebox
Featured Actor Joined: 6/7/06
#52re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/26/08 at 10:22pmMarin Mazzie? I'd see that, personally.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#53re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/26/08 at 10:26pm
I vote Donna Murphy. :)
She was at opening night.
Scoping things out, no?
that's a really big mic...
MungoGypsy8232
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/07
#54re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/26/08 at 10:57pmDonna Murphy with Kristen Bell replacing Leigh Ann Larkin :)
#55re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/26/08 at 11:09pm
The show won't run past LuPone.
Donna Murphy would be ideal casting, but she'd never replace.
But my GYPSY dream?
Tonya Pinkins as Rose, Anika Noni Rose as Louise, and Nikki James as June.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 5/26/08 at 11:09 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#56re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/26/08 at 11:14pmThe show will close. But worry not, there will be another revival in another 3 yrs.
#57re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/26/08 at 11:34pmBebe would be miscast, but I'd sure see it. She's a more than competent actress. Though I doubt she'd do a job of making the audience love Mama Rose.
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#58re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 12:31amI would personally love to see LaChanze take on the role.
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
#59re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 12:54am
I love Bebe, but I think she would be a train wreck.
My Dream(s) for Rose:
Donna Murphy, Lillias White or Mary Bond Davis
#60re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:11amSomething Wicked that would be a great cast! I would love to see that happen some day. And as many have already said this show closes with Patti.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#61re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:20am
Cyndi could easily sing it the way it's meant to be sung.
Pick up her album AT LAST to prove it to yourself.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#62re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:26am
Am I the only one who wants to see an all-black Gypsy? I think it would add extra weight to Rose's despair.
Rose: Patti LaBelle
Louise: Anika Noni Rose
Herbie: Jamie Foxx
June: Rebecca Naomi Jones
Tulsa: Chester Gregory II
MovieGuy1031
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/06
#63re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:27am
SomethingWicked,
Your casting made me pee.
...in a good way.
And as for Donna Murphy - i'd kill to see that.
"The nice thing about the rain is that it always stops... eventually."
- Eeyore
- Eeyore
#64re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:38amI'd love to see Victoria Clark or Christine Ebersole as Rose.
ZiggyCringe
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/05
#65re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 6:05am
Can we talk about Arthur Laurents?
I really liked this production of Gypsy. LuPone, Gaines and Benanti were all TERRIFIC.
However, the staging belongs to Jerome Robbins. This new production, for which Laurents was nominated for a Tony, is basically Robbins' staging. It's tweaked, but it is in no way, shape or form reinvented.
#66re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 8:31am
I would think and expect it close once la LuPone leaves.
I second Christine Ebersol or Donna Murphy as Rose.
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#67re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 9:44amJust to shed some light on the Donna Murphy rumors, I did speak to her at Opening Night during intermission and she expressed that she would kill to play this role on broadway. It is in fact her dream role. Would she replace Patti? No. As I stated before, I believe this show will close when Patti decides not to renew/contract ends.
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Kaye Thompson
4thRowAsile
Chorus Member Joined: 4/18/08
#68re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:06am
It just has to be said/asked as it was never mentioned in this thread...
Liza?
#69re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:40am
Ziggy-
There is so much more to being a director than JUST blocking!
<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018
#70re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:45am
Rose: Harvey Fierstein
Louise: Sutton Foster
Herbie: Christopher J. Hanke
June: Frenchie Davis
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#71re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:46am
An all-black cast is historically inaccurate. These were real people that we have the memory of preserved on film forever. Hell, June Havoc is still alive and well (and NOT living in Paris - sorry, bad joke, I know). It's the same reason we can't have an all-black THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK or a white Thurgood. We know what they looked like. We know their backgrounds.
See what I'm saying?
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#72re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:51amyeah, well it could be an interesting choice for experimental theatre, but maybe not for broadway per se.
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
#73re: Life After Patti?
Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:54amNo, I don't. This story may be about real people, but it has nothing to do with race (I guess if they were Chinese then the restaurant scene might be awkward).
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