Peters would actually make a fabulous Carlotta, except for the fact that she also has that girly voice. But she definitely could play the sexy side of Carlotta as well. Though I'm not sure I'd believe beautiful, perky Peters has "been through the gamut A-Z." Lauper is a perfect choice. I don't think her voice is a problem. She has such a tough quality to her, she's sexy, and she can act. Call her agents ASAP! I still prefer my idea of Krakowski. She's in her 40s, has made a career out of being sexy and also out of poking fun at her sexiness. She'd be a great out-of-the-box Carlotta. Streep must play Sally, she'd be fantastic. I really would love to see Laura Linney in the role too though.
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Well, I think Bette Midler is perfect for a stage Follies, but I understand what you guys are saying about the sexiness factor. I don't think Krakowski works at all. She is 39 and looks like she is in her early thirties. She also has a very contemporary look which I don't think works at all for this piece espicially not for the role Carlotta. I think Anette Bening is the perfect Phyllis and if Kathleen Turner can sing it then I would call her the perfect Carlotta. I think Laura Linney is a great choice for Sally, but I doubt she can sing it. I can see either Kevin Spacey (espicially if Benning is cast), Dennis Quaid or Daniel Day-Lewis as Ben. Buddy is harder... Paul Giamatti?
I'd like to see Beverly D'Angelo somewhere in this movie. She did her own vocals in Coal Miner's Daughter. Perhaps as Sally?
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I think Sally will be the hardest role to cast. Not many Hollywood names would be able to handle the soprano range of the role. Some of her notes are really up there, and I wouldn't care to hear TOO MANY MORNINGS transposed down.
I would not mind it at all if Sally weren't a soprano anymore. Mrs.Lovett was completely changed (vocally-wise) and if the NINE film happens, the vocals are expected to be completely altered to suit the actors. I think if you have seen SOPHIE'S CHOICE and MUSIC OF THE HEART (the beginning at least), you can see how some of us think Streep could make a great Sally. Laura Linney obviously doesn't have the soprano of a Vicki Clark or a Dorothy COllins. So what? This is a completely different animal. She would be thrilling to watch. Jewishboy, the reason I think Krakowski would work as Carlotta (and this is of course with the movie going into production sometime in late '08/'09), is precisely because she is older and looks younger. Carlotta is not a washed-out old lady like the productions with Ann Miller and Donna McKechnie in the role make it seem. She was a chorus girl just like Phyllis and Sally, she was the girl having affairs with all the other taken guys, she is living with a 27 year-old. I can totally see Krakowski in the role, of course if she were made-up and costumed to look a certain way. In 30 ROCK they have managed the nearly-impossible task to make Krakowski incredibly un-sexy and grotesque, so she has it in her. If they go for people like Linney and Marissa Tomei or Vanessa Williams, Krakowski would fit right in. If they go more towards Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, et al, then she wouldn't make much sense.
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Assemble a good screenwriter, Mendes & Sondheim to get the ball rolling.
You than get the whole lot of them in one of the abandoned theaters that populate the city. You get atmosphere you cannot buy for all the money in the world. There is one on main street Flushing which would be perfect. Do it right & you would have possibly the greatest stage to screen adaptations ever
Just imagine seeing the old theater morph into what it was & than go back & forth.
But, in the song "I'm Still Here" there are so many layers to the character, and I just don't see Jane Krakowski bringing them all to life in her physical performance as well as vocally.
Jewishboy, we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one :) Ljay, I get your point re Streep. Personally, FOLLIES is on my top 3 favorite musicals and Meryl Streep is my top favorite actress so you can see why I'd want the marriage of the two. She isn't my number one choice (that goes to Linney) but I think she'd be fabulous.
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Folks, don't hold your breath until this actually happens. Being developed and actually being made as a film are two very different things. This will probably be allowed to fade away unmade.
Aaron Sorkin? Feh.
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Wow, that's an inspired choice! There's something we can agree on, Jewishboy Sally Field is by far the best, most inspired choice for Sally in this or any other thread that has been created about the topic. Bonham Carter could play Phyllis, Dennis Quaid as Ben, Paul Giamatti as Buddy, Cyndi Lauper or Bernadette Peters as Carlotta, Bette Midler as Stella, Leslie Caron as Solange, Cloris Leachman as Hattie, and I shall be a happy homo.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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.