Worst Replacements???

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:39am

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:41am

Mel B-Rent
Melanie Griffith-Chicago
Betty Buckley-Sunset Blvd.
Melina Karakaredes-Cabaret

Updated On: 8/18/05 at 06:41 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 6:41am

Hasselhoff in J/H

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:02am

Sebastien Bach in ANYTHING
Linda Blair in Grease

Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:18am

Loretta Swit in Drood

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:29am

Melina Karakaredes was DAMN good in Cabaret....my personal all time favorite was Gina Gershon, but Melina did a very nice job. It was her emcee of John Secada that GAWD AWFUL! What he did to I DONT CARE MUCH was one of the worst pieces of theatrical entertainment I have EVER seen!

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:58am

Raquel Welch - Victor/Victoria
Mark Hamill - Amadeus
Loraine Newman - Fifth of July
Robert Goulet - La Cage
Susan Lucci - Annie Gret Your Gun
Brooke Sheilds - Cabaret

[bwayfan215]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:06am

Liza Minnelli - Victor/Victoria

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:42am

linda lavin in GYPSY (for tyne)
faith prince in THE KING & I

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:45am

faith prince in THE KING & I

Awww, I loved Faith as Anna!

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:46am

Joey McIntyre - Wicked

gag me.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:48am

I know she wasn't a replacement (except for the Merm) but TYNE DALY in GYPSY!!!

[bdwybelle]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:53am

Liza Minelli - Victor/Victoria
Brooke Shields - Wonderful Town

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:54am

^ What??

I can see saying Brooke for Cabaret. But she was fantastic in WT. Too get Brantley and all the other critics rave about you - that sure says something.

[bdwybelle]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:01am

I preferred Donna Murphy in the role. And in my life I have seen a few replacements but Liza and Brooke I thought were the weakest.
I like Brooke Shields, so I feel bad that I put her on the list, but I don't think she was right for the role.

[bdwybelle]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:02am

And she did do a good job if you've never seen the show before. But if you have seen the show, like I have, she just didn't do it for me.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:03am

and i thought tyne in GYPSY was one of the most exciting performances i have ever seen (not much of a singer necessarily--but her ROSES TURN was shocking--almost pornographic in how coarse she was, how un-selfconscious)

i think faith has good qualities for mrs. anna but her voice was just all wrong for that lyrical music (imo)
--but i'm having an i hate everyone day so don't go by me...

Updated On: 8/18/05 at 10:03 AM

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:10am

Now I really want to see Tyne's ROSES TURN. It sounds quite interesting.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:22am

If you enjoy method acting while listening to a fog horn . . . in a bad wig . . .


EDIT: and "coarse" and "pornographic" might be appropriate descriptions, but I don't think that's necessarily a good thing.

Updated On: 8/18/05 at 10:22 AM

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:23am

My top two are Hasselhoff in Jekyll and Hyde, and Jon Secada in Cabaret. Elch.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:37am

i thought tyne was fascinating as Rose, and she had great rapport with jonathon hadary. she also put the weisslers in their place which is worth an award in my book. i will take one raw moment from tyne than the entire bloodless, cutesie-poo production we were treated to 2 years back.

[ruthiefan_felix]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:38am

These are all London casts, hope you guys don't mind:
Chicago - Frances Ruffelle and Brooke Shields as Roxie
Les Miserables - Sean Kingsley as JVJ
Phantom Of The Opera - Oliver Thornton

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:41am

Linzi Hately - Roxie
Ruthie Henshall - Velma

^ Just playin' with ya!

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:47am

Garland Grrrl -- I agree that Bernadette wasn't appropriate for Rose, either. She worked to hard to try to be overbearing. It even comes through in the CR. Tyne was overbearing. I just have this thing against people who can't sing starring in musicals on b-way. Plus, I've never liked Tyne's acting style -- not on TV, not in movies, and DEFINITELY not on stage. You can see her working her acting technique, and a good actress just "IS" the character. I loved everything about that production of Gypsy except for Tyne.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 11:00am

Joey Fatone-LSOH
Jessica Snow-Wilson-LSOH
Robert Evan-LSOH
________________________________________________________________
"Somebody blows their nose and you wanna keep it."
-Ghostbusters