Chenoweth hints at DOLLY revival?

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/14/14 at 11:40pm

On the 'Watch What Happens Live' after show, a fan asked what her dream role is and she responded with something like "I can't say much yet, but I will be returning to Broadway. and I would love to play Hello, Dolly someday."

Could she be referring to On The Twentieth Century or the rumored Dolly revival?


Updated On: 4/14/14 at 11:40 PM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:01am

If Chenoweth does HELLO, DOLLY! it would be an outrage. The many, many talented names you could have in that role, and you let Chenoweth do it?! I, for one, have zero interest in witnessing Kristin Chenoweth's unneseccary operatically-attributed take on Dolly Levi. I'd rather scrape out my eardrums with a miniature chainsaw than hear her butcher that wonderful Jerry Herman score. Don't get me wrong -- I generally enjoy Chenoweth's performances -- but she is not an ideal Dolly Levi. Here's seven better and more appropriate ideas for Levi -- a list of a range of different types:

Tyne Daly
Queen Latifah
Adriane Lenox
Andrea Martin
Marrin Mazzie
(perhaps still) Bette Midler
Sherie Rene Scott

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:06am

Andrea Martin as Dolly... now THAT I would pay to see.

[The Josh]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:13am

Thanks, Capn, now I REALLY want to see Queen Latifah.

[CoreyRyan3]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:14am

^^this

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:21am

She'd make a great Ermengarde.
Most of Dolly's hats are bigger than that little doll.

Updated On: 4/15/14 at 12:21 AM

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:26am

What is this? The 763rd project she's associated herself with?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:27am

Is Cheno a pathological liar? Because it's getting to the point where she says she's doing a different new musical almost every week now.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:29am

Yeah... whenever she's interviewed (which is a rarer and rarer occurrence), she talks about how she'll be returning so soon!

And yet... here we are.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 1:47am

Dear God NO! I have only seen Ms Chenoweth on youtube and her glorious appearance in Candide[DVD]. Dolly is a force to be reconnened with and a voice to match. Ms Chenoweth has the physicality of a fairground doll on a stick wrapped in fairy floss-NOT my idea of a Dolly. On the 20th-Yes.

Think I spelt 'reconnened' wrong.reckonned?

Updated On: 4/15/14 at 01:47 AM

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 2:01am

Chenoweth is 100% returning to Broadway in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY this fall opposite Peter Gallagher. They've already started casting the supporting roles, so I can't imagine a formal announcement is too far off.

[Karen Cartwright]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 3:37am

Gee. What's next. Cheno as Norma Desmond? She really is trying to keep herself relevant. Maybe she should try to attach herself to Lea Michele and the whole Glee/Funny Girl bit while she's at it.

[promisespromises2]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 5:59am

There was an interview where Dolly herself said Cheno would be a candidate for playing her. However she is definitely referring to OTTC. I'm pretty sure Cheno has said multiple times that she would love to play Dolly in the future and not anytime soon. I LOVE Cheno to death and she is the perfect Lily Garland but I really can't see her as Dolly either (vocal-wise, obviously not looks-wise).

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 6:39am

I took it as: there is an upcoming thing I can't mention AND I'd like to play Dolly. TWO different and unconnected productions.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 6:56am

Minnie Fay and that's it.

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 8:16am

Here' a clip of the interview with her response. It's at the end of the clip.

http://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live/season-11/videos/after-show-kristin-s-coming-back-to-broadway

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 9:03am

If Dolly were to be revived, Reba would be at the very top of the list of actresses I'd like to see cast. Cheno would not be on that list.

[suttonfoster]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 1:51pm

Add Beth Leavel to that list. I have sources that tell me she's doing it at the MUNY this summer.

[Replacement Cast]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 2:26pm

Andrea Martin or Reba - YES! I will never, ever understand the ooh-aah of Beth Leavel in anything anywhere.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 2:34pm

Andrea Martin or Beth Leavel would be great choices to play Dolly at a place like Papermill. But in a full-scale, commercial, revival, the producers are going to want some kind of "star."

Didn't Jerry Herman "veto" LuPone playing this role about 5 years ago?

[theatreguy]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 3:03pm

He didn't have a problem with LuPone. The issue was that she and director Jack O'Brien wanted to do a completely new production but Herman insisted they recreate the original Gower Champion staging. LuPone and O'Brien weren't interested in that so it didn't happen.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 4:54pm

I don't know what her inflection was like, but it looks like she was conveying two different ideas. She's returning soon, and that she wants to play Dolly.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 5:09pm

It's pretty clear the She was talking about two different things- they weren't connected. Some people seemed to have been trying to read more into it then there was- Not surprising.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 5:29pm

After LISTENING to the clip, it is even more obvious she meant she wanted play Dolly "someday". (I said that even after someone just wrote up the text, too.)

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/15/14 at 6:01pm

On the flip side, with a rumored Dolly revival starring HER, there could certainly have been a relation between her saying "she is returning soon" and "wants to play Dolly someday." If she was being sly/secretive, she could have been dropping a hint.
Anyway, I assume she was speaking about TWENTIETH CENTURY.