Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in "Into the Woods"
Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in "Into the Woods"
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#1Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in "Into the Woods"
Posted: 6/8/12 at 8:34am
If anyone watches HBO's "Girls," you know Allison Williams, who plays Marni on the show. She's a fantastic, beautiful actress who graduated from Yale two years ago. And yes, she is Brian Williams' daughter.
What you might not know is that she is an incredible singer. Here she is singing a "remixed" version of the "Mad Men" theme song. I think she'd make a perfect Cinderella in "Into the Woods". Thoughts? Rob Marshall, are you reading this?
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#2Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in
Posted: 6/8/12 at 9:10am
She can sing. A little.
I just realized that Lena's co-stars are all children of the famous. Williams is Brian Williams's daughter. Mamet is David Mamet and Lindsay Crouse's daughter. Kirke is Simon Kirke's daughter.
#2Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in
Posted: 6/8/12 at 10:39amWilliams has a very serviceable singing voice, but she absolutely cannot act. She's wooden, lifeless, and dead in the eyes, and it's becoming more and more apparent on GIRLS as more and more is required of her.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 6/8/12 at 10:39 AM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
NJBway
Understudy Joined: 1/6/12
#3Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in
Posted: 6/8/12 at 11:32ammy least fav character on girls i love spotting the broadway ppl on the show though thats fun lol
#4Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in
Posted: 6/8/12 at 11:43amAlso I have to say having worked with her on something separate she is a complete nightmare, and yes, is 150% dead behind the eyes on and off screen.
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#5Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in
Posted: 6/8/12 at 12:44pmI actually think she is playing the role accordingly so I do not mind her (the show does a great job of letting most of the characters from episode to episode be shown in a different light from the previous). Girls seems to have just started filming Season 2, based on reading Lena Dunham's twitter, so I think Williams has commitments that sink this idea.
#6Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in
Posted: 6/8/12 at 3:47pm
I like Williams in GIRLS, I think she's pretty funny in the role but I don't know that she will prove to be particularly versatile, it reminds me a bit of Kirsten Davis in SEX AND THE CITY--though Davis was funnier and more unique in her role.
On the topic of GIRLS' actresses, I'd much rather see Zosia Mamet's neurotic take on Cinderella, I doubt she can sing but I'd love to hear her rendition of "On the Steps of the Palace" because of the real talent, quirkiness and depth she can potentially bring to it.
Any rumors about who's actually gonna play the role?
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#7Allison Williams Needs to Play Cinderella in
Posted: 6/9/12 at 1:02pmShe has good moments in GIRLS - some very good - and there are times when she is painfully outclassed by her costars and I have little idea what she's doing. She's young. Like Davis in SITC she has the "straight," conventional role, and hence in many ways the most difficult in which to make a strong impression. Davis's performance got stronger with every season. Perhaps Williams will follow suit.
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