BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, final show thoughts... — Page 3

I'd go with Groff, Stark Sands, Creel, Tveit, John Gallgher Jr, Neil Patrick Harris, Hunter Parrish, etc before Cheyenne.

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I adore NPH, but I admit that I can't really see him in the role, either. I don't know -- there's something very specific that Ben Walker brought to it and that the role requires, and it's hard for me to quite pinpoint it. It's not that Ben's irreplaceable, just that there's a specific type the part needs. There's a fearlessness in Ben's comedy in the role: he spends the entire show simultaneously being enamored with himself and absolutely making fun of himself. Actually, saying it like that, that is a quality that NPH has in abundance. (I mean, look at HIMYM.) I think I just don't seem him in the role vocally. Of all the names I've seen batted around, NPH is the least self-conscious as a comedic actor. But who knows, maybe the others just haven't gotten a chance to stretch in that direction. But the role really requires a lack of self-consciousness in order to embrace the ridiculousness of it all.

you guys are going for voices not characters. This show needs a character to care about.

Interesting. If this is true, Ben might be available to transfer with the show.


http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/RIALTO_CHATTER_Walker_Dropped_from_XMen_Flick_20100702

fm711, the role of Andrew Jackson requires someone who can actually act. Just being a "rocker with an edge" doesn't cut it.

Besides, Marc Anthony doesn't fit the role at all, Bon Jovi is too old, and Adam Lambert, ew.

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It doesn't really matter if he's younger than them. The point is whether he can pass for a high schooler. (I would say he looks pretty significantly older than that.)

Yes, but I doubt they are looking at Magneto and Xavier in high school. The age difference between them and the first X-Men class is significant. They're not the same generation.

^Yeah... I'd like to say he'd be perfect... And he might be... and he would sell a ****-load of tickets... but then again he said he'd never do theatre again... but I'd see him in it regardless... :)