Biggest Miscast

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Biggest Miscast#0

Posted: 8/30/04 at 9:51pm

Name the people that were miscast on Bway (and the roles they played)?

[Matt_G]

re: Biggest Miscast#1

Posted: 8/30/04 at 9:52pm

Bernadette Peters - GYPSY

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[My Fair Lady]

re: Biggest Miscast#2

Posted: 8/30/04 at 9:59pm

Mel Brown-RENT

[timote316]

re: Biggest Miscast#3

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:02pm

I've heard terrible things about Joey Mac in Wicked, but I'll let you all know this weekend...

[StickToPriest]

re: Biggest Miscast#4

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:03pm

Are you serious Matt?

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[zepka102]

re: Biggest Miscast#5

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:03pm

wait, are we talking original casting or replacements? cuz we've got that going too...

::bust a move::

[Matt_G]

re: Biggest Miscast#6

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:06pm

Yep. GYPSY is my alltime favorite show and God knows I love me some Bernadette, but they just didn't work together which is a real shame. I travelled to NYC from Florida to see the first preview and was very dissapointed.

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[VoiceofReason]

re: Biggest Miscast#7

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:10pm

Jeff Goldblum in CLO's Music Man
Big mistake..huge!

For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ~The Importance of Being Earnest~

[BreakingTheCircle07]

re: Biggest Miscast#8

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:12pm

Mel B- RENT
Adam P- Cabaret
John S- Nine
Marylouise B- Into the Woods

Variations on a Theme blog: http://panekattack.blogspot.com/

[NuggetMonkeys]

re: Biggest Miscast#9

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:14pm

I thought Bernadette was FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
crap on your face, matt.
and i hope it is chunky.
good job, look what you made me do.
:)
-d.b.j-

Vary My Days.

[Matt_G]

re: Biggest Miscast#10

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:16pm

Nuggs, I just said I didn't care for her. I thought Tyne Daly was the best Mama Rose I've seen.

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[kissmycookie]

re: Biggest Miscast#11

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:18pm

Nathan Lane as Nathan Detroit

[Marquise]

re: Biggest Miscast#12

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:20pm

Sandy Duncan as Roxie Hart

[Derek2]

re: Biggest Miscast#13

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:20pm

Tyne was great live! I saw a clip of her on Tv durring an interview

[lildogs]

re: Biggest Miscast#14

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:25pm

Boy George in "Taboo"......ouch

[CurtainUp]

re: Biggest Miscast#15

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:28pm

I have no complaints about her singing voice, and she was cute, but I had the feeling Kerry Butler didn't know what to do w/ Audrey in "Little Shop...". It's like she was trying to be different from EllenGreen by taking it in another direction, but it's like she didn't knwo what that direction was.

Also, Peter Krause (who is charming but wasn't fitting) in "After the Fall".

Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

[kjklo]

re: Biggest Miscast#16

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:28pm

But Matt, if you only saw the first preview, then that's hardly fair. You can't judge a production or a performance when it's in previews. Peters grew enormously in that part (throughout the entire run). Remember, they opened on Broadway cold, with no out of town run. I think Bernadette was unorthodox, counter-intuitive, yet brilliant casting.

[TheAudrey3]

re: Biggest Miscast#17

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:30pm

Sandy Duncan as Anna in the King and I. No. Just no. (tour though)

"It does what a musical's supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue."

[Mythus]

re: Biggest Miscast#18

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:30pm

Chris Kattan as Xanthias in The Frogs. He was replaced before opening night, thank goodness. Now, I love Chris Kattan as much as the next person, but he just doesn't seem like the Broadway type. A friend of mine, who went to see The Frogs, said there's no way she could imagine Kattan in the role. He's too...smarmy.

[Matt_G]

re: Biggest Miscast#19

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:31pm

kjklo, I can only judge the show by what I saw.

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[BroadwayDiva]

re: Biggest Miscast#20

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:33pm

Manley Pope as Roger in RENT. He got on my nerves in that role.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[Crazy4MattMorrison52]

re: Biggest Miscast#21

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:34pm

i agree with you broadwaydiva

"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"

[Tiny-Toon]

re: Biggest Miscast#22

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:35pm

Joey Patone - little shop!!

http://www.BrooklynTheMusical.info

[jonartdesigns]

re: Biggest Miscast#23

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:43pm

kerry butler- lsoh
anne reinking- chicago
chita rivera- chicago in the west end (when she played roxie in the revival)

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

Updated On: 8/30/04 at 10:43 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

re: Biggest Miscast#24

Posted: 8/30/04 at 10:46pm

Idina as Amneris (AIDA) - Love Deedee, but she's too edgy rock-n-roll for that part!

Norbert as Fiyero (WICKED) - WHY?? Wasted talent on a crappy part.

"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

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