Leading YOUNG Ladies

[M J R]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:12pm

Hey all - I have a question - who do you all consider to be some of the top leading YOUNG women on Broadway these days - like, able to play high school ages?

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:14pm

Sutton Foster

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:16pm

*waits for stampede of "Idina! Idina! Idina! Idena! Eyedena!"*



Hmm...how about Anna Paquin and Natalie Portman?

Although I suppose technically Natalie hasn't been on Broadway...but if we're talking about theatrical potential...

Updated On: 4/11/05 at 08:16 PM

[Joshua488]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:18pm

Wasn't Natalie Portman in some Shakespeare in the Park thing a few years ago? My sister saw it and I heard she was awful.

[M J R]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:19pm

Well, let me be more specific - I'm needing to cast a girl to be the lead character in a musical version of The Lovely Bones. - She is of high school age - must be able to sound young/breathy as well as have a strong belt...just wondering if anyone came to mind for you guys...

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:20pm

Idina! Idina! Idina!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:20pm

Really? Yeah, she was in Chekhov's The Seagull with an all-star lineup (Glenn Close, Kevin Kline...). I really enjoy her movies - I find her acting very subtle, but I thought she would grace the stage really well.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:21pm

Basically, you want to cast "Susie"? I didn't know there WAS a musical on Lovely Bag of Bones! Hmm...someone fit for that part...

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:22pm

Wait, you are casting this for Broadway? I'm confused.


And wasn't Natalie in The Diary of Anne Frank?

Updated On: 4/11/05 at 08:22 PM

[M J R]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:22pm

Yes, Susie...

[Joshua488]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:22pm

I think that's it! I heard awful things about her in that.

[Plum]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:24pm

Some otherwise very worthy actors just can't do Shakespeare and/or period pieces because their way of speaking and carrying themselves is too modern. Portman might have that problem.

And isn't Menzel 30-something? She and Chenoweth were both stretching it in Wicked.

[M J R]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:24pm

Well....THINK for Broadway in your casting choices...

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:26pm

Kelli O'Hara has a very young face. She could probably pull it off.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:27pm

Plum--- Norbert Leo Butz. 'Nuff said.

Let me stew on this for a while, MJR. I love imagining my ideal cast every time I read a book, but I normally think in terms of a film cast and not a Broadway one.

[Plum]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:28pm

Is Butz a guy who can't do period pieces? Or someone who's playing way too young?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:30pm

Playing way too young. Enjoy his singing, but when Fiyero, the impish school boy, showed up on the scene, I was wondering why Galinda's grand-uncle was picking her up from school so early.

[Plum]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:31pm

LOL. Well, it was a Wicked reference, and since I purged most things about that show from my mind, it's no wonder I didn't get it.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:36pm

How about Anna Pacquin, MJR? She's fantabulous.

And Norbert Leo Butz restored my faith in hip replacement. It's amazing, he moves like a sixty year old now.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:37pm

Well, Reading Comp, in case you missed it, MJR's looking for someone with a belt, which I don't think Anna has.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:38pm

Well, her trousers stayed up when I saw her in Roulette.

*shrug*

[M J R]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:39pm

Has anyone seen Little Women? What about Amy Alexander? She looks the part to me at least...

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:47pm

You obviously haven't seen LITTLE WOMEN. Amy McAlexander can't sing for s*it and her acting is annoying as all hell.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:49pm

Yeah, my other sister said that she had the urge to run up onto the stage and punch Amy McAlexander in the face. Numerous times. Then she left at intermission.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:52pm

"Yeah, my other sister said that she had the urge to run up onto the stage and punch Amy McAlexander in the face. Numerous times."

I'd second that.