Amanda Bynes Broadway Debut???

[romantico]

Posted: 8/12/08 at 4:38pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402062,00.html

"It looks all but certain that Debra Winger is going to make her Broadway debut this fall in a new production of "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?" The word is that Winger will take the role made famous by Katharine Hepburn in the 1968 film of a matriarch whose daughter brings home a black doctor as her fiancée.

In the movie, Spencer Tracy played opposite Hepburn as her husband. I’m told that producers are looking at Bill Pullman and Barry Bostwick for the role. Last fall, Blythe Danner and Larry Bryggman played the parents in a reading. Danner obviously chose to do something else. Bryggman, however, would be a great choice for the Tracy role.

Other roles are going to LaTauya Richardson Jackson, the talented actress wife of Samuel L. Jackson, as the family’s maid. Producers are said to be looking at TV’s *Amanda Bynes* as the couple’s daughter, played by Hepburn’s niece Katharine Houghton in the film.

Still to be cast is the Sidney Poitier role, Dr. John Prentice, although I’m told Mekhi Phifer, of "ER," may be the final choice. If he’s not available, producers should try and get Anthony Mackie."

I just LOVE Amanda Bynes, but am not sure if this is right for her. Debra Winger? Really? UGH!

[shh282]

Posted: 8/12/08 at 4:47pm

personally, I think Amanda Bynes would be able to handle herself.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/12/08 at 4:57pm

This casting has epic flop written all over it.

I can't wait.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:33pm

I'm with Taz!
No wonder Blythe Danner decided to do something else.

[romantico]

Posted: 8/12/08 at 5:41pm

I like Amanda but she is mostly known for comedy. I think she should stick with film and television and learn her craft a little more before doing theatre.

Now, if they got Sharon Stone and David Hasslehoff to play the parents then that would would be worth seeing!

Updated On: 8/12/08 at 05:41 PM