Ok, I could be eating my hat on this soon because I know nothing from the inside. BUT. Having seen the show, this is my thought. I am having a hard time believing it, not because I don't like her (I do, I saw her in Wonderful Town and thought she was quite good), but because she goes against everything they have spent more than five years creating this character to be. Sutton is not not doing it because they've decided to take the character in another direction, she's not doing it because she's not available. And I just can't understand why, after all this time of one idea for the character, and having it work almost perfectly, they would suddenly switch to something completely different.
The differences between the movie and the musical are subtle, but their ramifications are huge, and the relationship between Jonas and Marva is very complicated and very very delicate. Such that the dynamic is with Raul playing Jonas, I can't see it working the way it, IMO, should. It's completely illogical to me, and I hope it's just a weird rumor. It just doesn't fit.
If it's true, however (of which I am skeptical), I hope I am wrong in that (assumptive) assessment, and that she surprises me. The powers that be have done too much right with this show to screw it up like that (again, not by putting her in it because she's Brooke Shields, but by messing with the character as much as it seems like this would). I just want it to be as good as it has the potential to be.
So that's my opinion, for what it's worth, since I saw the show in pretty recent form. And honestly, don't these kinds of rumors turn out to be false almost as often as they turn out to be true?
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Updated On: 6/7/10 at 11:03 PM
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