What play should Oprah do on B'way?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 9:30am

So the world's most powerful media mogul-slash-actress has an eye on B'way. Ideas? RAISIN isn't an option, unless she replaced Felicia (and truthfully, that would've been a damned good fit for the former COLOR PURPLE star.) Non traditional casting? I.e., say, THE CHERRY ORCHARD?

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 9:38am

I agree that Oprah would have been great as the matriarch in RAISIN...SUN, but you know something? I think it would be very interesting to see her do a role that did NOT require her to play a downtrodden dowdy woman. Think about it -- THE COLOR PURPLE, WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE, that film where she was the mother of a kid convicted of murder - I forget the title. She always ends up slapping a gray wig on her head or doing a southern accent, or both.

I think she'd be intresting as, say...the psychiatrist in AGNES OF GOD. Or even Mother Superior in the same show. Although another woman of color, Dihann Carroll, has already done that role on B'way, perhaps Oprah could bring something fresh and new to it. I dunno.

Just no more dowdiness for her!

[DAME]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 11:13am

Hmm. so she went to see a play on broadway and all of a sudeen "she has a eye on broadway"?
Hmmm,,, Well she should do something like MS Margaridas Way ( a play Estelle Parsons once did). In the play she plays a school teacher and the audience is her class room.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 12:46pm

Oprah should do..."RUTH IS ALRIGHT....it tells the heart rending tale of Ruth: She's poor, she's black, she's been sexually abused. So she moves to Chicago, becomes a talk-show host and becomes THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!"

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 1:19pm

Mary, Queen of Scotland!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 1:29pm

Ladies and Gents, we have found our Martha! With Usher as Nick and Raven Symone as Honey!

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 1:39pm

And of course Billy Dee Williams as "George". Miss Ross can be the standby to Oprah, thereby generating multitudinous publicity about their reunion.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 2:06pm

I think Oprah and Ms Ross should do Chicago. Oprah as Roxie and Diana as Velma.
I would pay good money to see thoe two Hussys doing the cartwheels at the end.

[junglered]

Posted: 4/29/04 at 2:58pm

Why, "Mary Poppins", of course. Isn't Oprah "practically perfect in every way"??? She can easily solve all the world's problems on her television show and then fly over to Broadway by umbrella in time to solve the problems of Cherry Tree Lane at 8:00PM. All in a day's work for the world's most perfect woman!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/30/04 at 10:17am

Actually, the Martha idea is fascinating. Think about it a minute. And let Nick and Honey be an interracial couple, Nick white, Honey black? Morgan Freeman as George. The politics of academia would have all sorts of resonance, the white Nick a biologist, George's lines about a new race of blue hair/blonde eyed, etc. Or, do a white George. The possibilities are more than intriguing, and really, Uta's gone, Ivey, Ruhl et al have been thumbs downed by Albee for ny, SO it's time for a new spin on Martha.