#1
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:25pm
Not now of course, but 30 years ago I think she would have been great.
#2
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:27pm
#3
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:29pm
Seconded with Thenardier.
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#4
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:30pm
Third.
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#5
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:30pm
god no! Please, wait till I'm dead.
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#7
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:32pm
Fifth. As if needed but still I must stress the point.
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#8
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:41pm
30 years ago, or 1975, Bernadette had already put a complex, emotionally varied REAL character up on the stage--Mabel, to be exact. Why do you think she could or would want to play a cartoon, as entertaining as Glinda might be? And I personally would not want to see her regress.
Oh well, let's just say it--I'm really not sure she could sing Glinda.
Oh well, let's just say it--I'm really not sure she could sing Glinda.
#9
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:43pm
I really don't see it. Berandette is a great comic actress, but she really doesnt have the vocal chops.
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#10
Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:46pm
A couple of years ago (around the time the show opened) Ken Mandlebaum made some comment in his column about how he couldn't help but envisioning a young Bernadette Peters and a young Patti LuPone playing the leads in Wicked.
So there you go. You're not the only one to have thought this.
So there you go. You're not the only one to have thought this.
#11
Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:07pm
What do you mean why? It's just a thought I had. I think she would have been wonderful. She probably would have been able to hit those high notes back in the day. I don't see what's the big deal about her "regressing" since this is a purely hypothetical situation.
#12
Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:21pm
I guess one could say that it is a purely hypothetical "regress", since I am also "allowed" to express my opinion.
Updated On: 8/8/05 at 09:21 PM
#13
Posted: 8/8/05 at 10:01pm
How about we move the story forward and have Wicked: The Later Years starring Bernadette and Patti and then Wicked: The Final Years with Andrews and Burnett or Lansbury and Stritch.
#14
Posted: 8/8/05 at 11:01pm
Bernadette NEVER had the legit soprano range required to sing Galinda.
#15
Posted: 8/9/05 at 11:39am
Harvey as Elphaba and Rosie as Glinda.
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Enough to really draw them in....Madame Morrible. Donald Trump
#17
Posted: 8/9/05 at 12:26pm
I'm pulling for the incredible Angela Lansbury to play Morrible. She may be a bit too old but you can't even tell when Morrible's drag makeup is on. She would be exceptional, IMO.
#18
Posted: 8/9/05 at 12:45pm
Julie Andrews would have sang the role beautifully! I think Jenny Galloway (i think that's right) would be a perfect Madame Morrible!
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#19
Posted: 8/9/05 at 1:10pm
I think if you REALLY want to regress Wicked with talk fo what might have been, toss it back to the 60s and envision a young, in-her-prime Barbara Cook as Glinda. That's perfect casting (for the time period, anyway).
#20
Posted: 8/9/05 at 1:46pm
Peresonally, I think Bernadette is a bit overrated...but, for all we know, if she could get offered the role of Mama Rose, then I'm sure someone will offer her Glinda...
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#21
Posted: 8/9/05 at 6:29pm
i agree with beergoggles...JULIE ANDREW! oh man, i love that lady.
but, bernadette, well, sure, if you'd like. i just can't imagine her singing those high notes, that's all
but, bernadette, well, sure, if you'd like. i just can't imagine her singing those high notes, that's all
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#22
Posted: 8/9/05 at 6:37pm
What a surprise - another pointless, stupid Wicked thread.
Updated On: 8/9/05 at 06:37 PM
#23
Posted: 8/9/05 at 6:42pm
I don't even think Julie has that upper range for Galinda, that role is so high. Julie has.. had.. HAS (sorry, couldn't help myself) plain not-too-high soprano. Granted, she had the sweetest and purest plain not-too-high soprano voice.. I couldn't really see Julie play cutesy.. as she BASICALLY invented the Broadway ingenue. And Glinda is not an ingenue.
But I'm just being nit-picky.
Bernadette is too sexy to play Glinda. She's invented the sexy cute. Not quirky enough.
Again, nit-picking.
Liza playing Elphie.. I could see that. And during defying gravity she could reach out her arms in that spaztasic way that she does, and do that weird desperate grabbing motion she does with her hands. It would be brilliant.
But I'm just being nit-picky.
Bernadette is too sexy to play Glinda. She's invented the sexy cute. Not quirky enough.
Again, nit-picking.
Liza playing Elphie.. I could see that. And during defying gravity she could reach out her arms in that spaztasic way that she does, and do that weird desperate grabbing motion she does with her hands. It would be brilliant.
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#25
Posted: 8/9/05 at 6:58pm
Why does this even matter it couldn't possibly happen! This whole wicked thing is getting slighly rediculous! Please if we are gonna post about Wicked lets make it soemthing relevent that we can actually chat about!
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