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.
I 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
Something 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 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.
I would think and expect it close once la LuPone leaves.
I second Christine Ebersol or Donna Murphy as Rose.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Just 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.
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!)
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
yeah, 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!)
No, 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).