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Bette Midler asked to do Mame
#25Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 6:46pmLet's go back a bit. You're calling Bette "Too Fat"? The woman is TINY. Too fat? Srsly?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#26Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:22pm
The troll that started this thread doesn't seem to want to discuss it.
She's wrong, and that all they will discuss.
Case closed.
#27Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:28pmOh, sorry. It's always hard to know which threads are started to have discussions and which are started so that people can just state opinions.
#28Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:58pm
I agree that the Divine Miss M might be too old as "Mame." That's almost like imagining a 71 year old actress portraying "Mama Rose" in a film..........uh oh. from RC in Austin, Texas
#29Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:59pmBette would certainly make a far better Mame or Dolly than she did Rose. That "performance" was embarrassing. However, I can really see her being a delightful Mame. If it was on stage, I don't think age is much of an issue. She still looks great and could pass for at least 50. I always thought Roz looked ancient in the original film, but people aged differently back then.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#30Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 8:56pm
"but people aged differently back then."
You mean, naturally?
#31Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:09pm
First of all, these old bags who get plastic surgery do NOT look young, they look strange.
Second of all it doesn't even really have to do with looks. A 70 year old woman simply does not carry herself the same way a 40 year old woman does, and no amount of good acting can overcome that. It's just pathetic at some point, in my never to be humble opinion!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#32Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:26pmWhen you call legends 'old bags', it voids everything else you post.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#33Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:28pmWith Bette playing Mame they'd have to re-work the scene with the ant-Semitic Upsons.
#34Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:32pmBette Midler of course already has played MAME. At least in a reading that happened in the early 1990s. It was with the outlook of doing it as a television production and a follow-up to Gypsy. Midler came away from that reading essentially feeling just that she wasn't right for the role, and specifically stated to friends the subplot with the Upsons as being one consideration.
#35Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:35pmLOL early '90s would be fine. Today? Not so much.
#37Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:48pmUgh the idea of gutter born Cher as the high born Mame Dennis is absurd on it's face.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#38Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:48pmThe Cher thing was a different production.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#40Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:56pmOur newest troll...
#42Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:57pmHe's not a troll, he's an Annie orphan!!!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#43Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:58pm
Maybe from Will Smith's upcoming production...
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#44Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:09pmI think we can see what Cher would have done with the role by looking at her work in Tea With Mussolini.
#45Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:09pmCZJ as Mame?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#46Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:17pm
"CZJ as Mame?"
With Rene Zellwegger as Vera?
#47Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:38pm
Yes but Meryl Streep was almost 60 when she played Donna in Mamma Mia, who I envision being early 40ish. The public will now accept actresses playing younger, even those who arent crazy with plastic surgery.
Bette and Meryl must take very good care of themselves and have access to great makeup and lighting, etc. To me, Bette looks the same as she always has. So does Meryl.
I think people would buy Bette as Mame.
#48Bette Midler asked to do Mame
Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:48pmStreep in that horrible show isn't even in the same ballpark as the idea of a 70 year old Bette Midler playing Mame. It's mental!
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