Bette Midler asked to do Mame- Page 2

[Jordan Catalano]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#25

Posted: 5/11/13 at 6:46pm

Let's go back a bit. You're calling Bette "Too Fat"? The woman is TINY. Too fat? Srsly?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#26

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.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Jordan Catalano]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#27

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:28pm

Oh, 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.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#28

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

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

Updated On: 5/11/13 at 07:58 PM

[ComingUpRoses2]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#29

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:59pm

Bette 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]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#30

Posted: 5/11/13 at 8:56pm

"but people aged differently back then."

You mean, naturally?

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[lovebwy]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#31

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]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#32

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:26pm

When you call legends 'old bags', it voids everything else you post.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Dollypop]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#33

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:28pm

With Bette playing Mame they'd have to re-work the scene with the ant-Semitic Upsons.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[Michael Bennett]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#34

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:32pm

Bette 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.

[lovebwy]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#35

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:35pm

LOL early '90s would be fine. Today? Not so much.

[Jordan Catalano]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#36

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:46pm

I thought that reading was with Cher.

[lovebwy]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#37

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:48pm

Ugh the idea of gutter born Cher as the high born Mame Dennis is absurd on it's face.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#38

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:48pm

The Cher thing was a different production.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Jordan Catalano]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#39

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:51pm

lovebwy sure seems to hate a lot.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#40

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:56pm

Our newest troll...

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[lovebwy]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#41

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:56pm

The truth hoits!

[Jordan Catalano]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#42

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:57pm

He's not a troll, he's an Annie orphan!!!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#43

Posted: 5/11/13 at 9:58pm

Maybe from Will Smith's upcoming production...

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Gothampc]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#44

Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:09pm

I think we can see what Cher would have done with the role by looking at her work in Tea With Mussolini.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Playbilly]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#45

Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:09pm

CZJ as Mame?

"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"

[Gothampc]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#46

Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:17pm

"CZJ as Mame?"

With Rene Zellwegger as Vera?

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Bettyboy72]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#47

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.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[lovebwy]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#48

Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:48pm

Streep 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!

[Jordan Catalano]

Bette Midler asked to do Mame#49

Posted: 5/12/13 at 12:45am