Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
#1Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 12:15pm
Poor girl is too old, but bless her heart.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Amy-Adams-Says-Id-Really-Love-to-Play-Elphaba-From-WICKED-20141228
Updated On: 12/28/14 at 12:15 PM
#2Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 12:18pm
Can't see her as Elphaba. She'd make a good Galinda, though.
If they make it soon they could get Idina Menzel to reprise her role. She's a hot movie property now thanks to Frozen.
Alessio2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/13
#3Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:29pmthey're supposed to be school girls right? they're both too old
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#4Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:29pmBut what about her age? Is she young enough?
#5Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:35pmGood question, Bob. We should ask someone who has at least 3 dozen screen names here. But who could that be?
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#6Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:36pm
I don't know but this is a great and meaningful thread.
What about Hall of Fame Quarterback Steve Young? Is he Young enough? How about former UN Ambassador and Mayor of Atlanta, Andrew Young. He's 82 so by that age he must certainly be Young enough. Wow, really got me thinking.
Updated On: 12/28/14 at 01:36 PM
#7Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:38pmIf the film version of Rent taught us anything, it's that it's never a good idea to cast the original actors nearly a decade later.
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#8Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 1:40pm
"If the film version of Rent taught us anything"
Life lesson for the day... do your learnin in skool, not at the movies.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#9Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:01pmThink twice before you poo-poo it.
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Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#10Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:14pmI can't picture her as Elphaba for some reason.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#11Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:21pmIf Amy Adams is too old - and she may well be - then Idina Menzel is certainly too old.
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#12Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:23pm
What about gender-blind casting???
Would anyone make a better Glinda than Liam Neeson? How cool would it be at a crucial point in the story, to have Glinda look at Elphaba and say "I'm off to see the Wizard and if you try to stop me... I will find you... and I will kill you."
Updated On: 12/28/14 at 02:23 PM
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#13Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:23pmNOT WITHOUT MY SISTER'S SHOES.
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#14Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:27pm
It helps to read the entire article.
She goes on to say that there's no way she could ever play the role 8 times a week onstage and thinks she'd maybe like to do it for a one night benefit or something where her age wouldn't be an issue.
#15Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:28pm
Without taking this too seriously ... she doesn't have near the vocal chops to play Elphaba. Come on. And yeah, girl's too old!
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#16Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:32pm
"It helps to read the entire article."
A good rule of thumb is to never let that get in the way of starting a pointless thread.
#17Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 2:53pmWhen is the holiday vacation over? Taz needs to return to school.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#18Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 3:10pm
She's a hot movie property now thanks to Frozen.
Source?
Starship
Broadway Star Joined: 7/29/12
#19Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 3:20pmIf Menzel is such a "hot property," why is If/Then doing so badly?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#20Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:00pm^Again,let's not worry ourselves about those pesky facts.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#21Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/28/14 at 4:16pm
Can't wait for the kid to go back to school! In the meantime, girl's too old, "No
More" is about dead and all that.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#22Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/29/14 at 2:28amNo Amy not gonna happen...you're better off playing Catherine in the Pippin movie.
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/11
#23Amy Adams wants to play Elphaba!
Posted: 12/29/14 at 7:13am
I love Amy, in fact, she is one of my favorite actresses.
But Elphaba? No. I am longing for the day that they cast great actors in musicalfilms that are great singers too. They exist you know.
Anyone who disagrees, go check Youtube and search for some random "No good deed"'s.
(Willemijn Verkaik, Rachel Tucker, etc). That is such a high level of craftmanship, that can never be done and work on film by someone who isn't an outstanding singer.
Film and theatre are much more alike than one would think. For example I find the filmed version of Billy Elliot much more filmic than the actual film version of les Miserables, which are basically 1 take theatrical performances on set, and therefore I see actors giving a performance trying to be theatrical and struggling with singing, instead of taking me on a journey.
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