ALW's song and dance ?- Page 2

[JRybka]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:59pm

Well Tell me on a Sunday/Song and Dance/Whatever ALW decides to call it now should be recorded with Alice Ripley or Emily Skinner or one of the biggies here. Actually I think Judy Kuhn could pull it off or even Susan Egan would be really good in it.

[jbdc]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 10:16pm

These women are all too old for this. It needs to be a young woman. 35 tops. It will never play Broadway again, unless it's with a pop, movie or tv star in a limited engagement and mia michaels choreogaphed act two. Broadway is way too commercial now for a one woman musical / dance based show with no jukebox score to appeal to producers. They should do a gay version, where Emma is played by a Daniel Riechard and have Bill T. Jones choreograph the second act.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 10:32pm

We're discussing studio recordings and concert performances. On Broadway they would obviously have to go for different actresses. And you're right it would have to be a TV/Film star. I could see Anne Hathaway being a good Emma a few years from now.
The only actress in her mid-30s that I would love to see playing the role is Anika Noni Rose, it is out-of-the-box casting, but I think she would be excellent.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 10:33pm

I love this cast recording (Marti Webb version). Also "Variations" is gorgeous.