Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
#1Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:23pm
Christian: Matthew Morrison
Satine: Laura Benanti or Kelli O'Hara
Zidler: Gary Beech
Duke: Roger Bart
I don't know who else for other roles. Any ideas?
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#2re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:45pmbump
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
#2re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:46pmdouble post
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
Updated On: 7/18/07 at 11:46 PM
BDrischBDemented
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/05
#3re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 1:27am
Satine - Carol Channing
Christian - Michael Crawford
Zidler - Colm Wilkinson
The Duke - Harvey Fierstein
Toulouse - Tommy Tune
The Green Fairy - Liza Minelli
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
#4re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 2:45pmyou're my new hero BD! Carol Channing has that heavenly quality in her voice required for Satine.
#5re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 4:48pm
Christian- Hadley Fraser
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Sorry are there other people in the cast?
#6re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 5:08pm
Satine - Lea Michele
Christian - Jonathan Groff
Zidler - Jonathan Groff
The Duke - Jonathan Groff
Toulouse - Jonathan Groff
The Green Fairy - Lea Michele
And there should be nakedness.
Lots of it.
Uh-huh.
#7re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 5:22pm
Yea, I know this has been posted 1000000 times before, but I'll play along:
Christian- Hadley Fraser
Satine - Lisa Brescia
The Duke - Bob Stillman? (haven't thought much about him)
Zidler - Gary Beach
I love America. Just because I think gay dudes should be allowed to adopt kids and we should all have hybrid cars doesn't mean I don't love America.
[turns and winks directly into the camera]
- Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) on 30 Rock
#8re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 5:26pm
Christian - Idina Menzel
Satine - Harvey Fierstein
Or something. ^_^
Studmuffn520
Featured Actor Joined: 11/8/06
#9re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 5:45pm
satine-heather parcells. i want to see her in something else. i think shed do good.
christian-adam pascal
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#11re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 8:23pmOooh Rachel York! Also I'm gonna throw the obvious, Sutton Foster would make a fab Satine as well.
#12re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 8:36pm
Nooooo, Sutton's too cute for Satine. I'd be SO down with Rachel York, but I really wouldn't be able to buy Sutton in the role.
#13re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/19/07 at 11:19pm
gotta have Caroline O'Connor for Nini-Legs-in-the-Air.
Satine - Sara Gettlefinger NO DOUBT!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." - Arthur Miller
#15re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/20/07 at 2:11pm
I agree that Caroline should reprise her role as NINI.
Satine should be someone a little older then the youth of musicals today...
Maybe put Felicia Finely in the part of Satine
or Lauren Kennedy.
And I love David Burhman's voice for Christian or my dear friend and incredibly talented Dan Perry
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
BDrischBDemented
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/05
#16re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/20/07 at 3:37pmAw, thanks :) It's exciting to imagine the possibilities this has by imagining Carol saying Satine's lines. Like in the "Elephant Love Medley", when Christian is on top of the elephant, I can just hear her shrieking "Young man! Young man! I'll thank you to get off of my elephant, young man!".
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#17re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/20/07 at 3:44pmI think Gettlefinger would be a good Satine. She should be fairly young, IMO. Maybe Orfeh would be as old as I'd go.
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#18re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/20/07 at 3:47pm
Satine - Rachel York
Christian - Noah Racey or David Burhman
Zidler - Ernie Sabella or Michael Mulheren
The Duke - James Naughton
Nini - Caroline O'Connor
Narcoleptic Argentinian - Aaron Lazar
Le Chocolat - Brandon Victor Dixon
the thought of Noah and Rachel wooing each other makes me happy.
#19re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/20/07 at 3:55pmVonTussleGirl-Marry me?
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
daspazoo
Leading Actor Joined: 3/11/06
#20re: Casting a Stage Version of Moulin Rouge
Posted: 7/20/07 at 4:25pm
BDrisch--you and I should head the commitee of concerned citizens advocating producers to Bring Carol Channing Back to Broadway In Any Vehicle Whatsoever, Especially Something She Is Completley Unsuited For Because She Is So Outrageous She'd Make It Work.
I'm thinking MOULIN or...SPIDER WOMAN perhaps?
Seriously, love me some Carol so much it's not even funny. Have you read her autobiography? Had me on the floor...
dfw--"gotta have Caroline O'Connor for Nini-Legs-in-the-Air."
Yes. Yes Yes. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YES YES YES.
...this bird is singing.
