Biggest Miscast — Page 3

#51

ouch...

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:26am

Joey Fatone in anyting-- it's bad enough he couldn't sing in n'sync now why does he have to not be able to sing on Broadway!

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//Just to get my Name in LIGHTS//

#52

ouch...

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:27am

Kathy Lee Gifford in Putting it Together

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I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

#53

ouch...

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:28am

Kathie Lee...that sounds so scary

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But I won't live alone in a house of regret.

#54

ouch...

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:35am

I tried, but I just couldn't buy Avril Lavigne as Effie in Dreamgirls.

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#55

ouch...

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:38am

I bet her rendition of I Am Telling You was truly fabulous.

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Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#56

ouch...

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:39am

It had potential but she was singing in a fake British accent, which makes very little sense since she's Canadian.

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#57

ouch...

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:39am

brilliant Namo

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But I won't live alone in a house of regret.

#58

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:52am

I'm not sure how you can equate Nathan Lane's casting as Nathan Detroit to the level of bad casting specified elsewhere in this thread (David Hasselhoff et al). Lane played Detroit several times in his career, so apparently more than one casting director thought he was right for the part.

I thought his performance was right on. But then everyone is entitled to their opinion...so I won't try to convince you.

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#59

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 10:57am

Are you saying Canadians are supposed to have British accents?? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day!

Avril is from a small hick town of less than 5000 people. Not quite next to the Queen, there...

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#60

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 11:13am

SamIam: I'm only basing my replies on what I've seen. And Lane as Detroit was the weakest link out of the whole cast. But I will concede that he's not the worst miscast, compared to others who have already been mentioned and those yet to be...

#61

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 12:04pm

Adam Pascal - Aida
Jonathan Pryce - My Fair Lady (London)
Alan Thicke - Chicago (Tour)
Sandy Duncan and Martin Vidnovic - The King and I (Tour)
David Hasselhoff - Jekyll and Hyde
Mel B, Matt Caplan, Sebastian Arcelus (as Roger) and whoever played Angel in July - Rent
Lea Thompson - Cabaret (Tour)
Rex Smith - Kiss Me Kate (Tour)
John Davidson - Oklahoma (Tour)

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"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#62

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 12:11pm

I said this in the other thread, but I'll post it here as well....

I saw Alan Thicke as Billy... he's not nearly as bad as George Hamilton as Billy

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If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

#63

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 12:41pm

Hands down, end of discussion, yes i know it was off broadway but it doesn't matter......Ally Sheedy in HEDWIG, it was just an abortion....

Also Sebastian Bach was awful in Rocky Horror, I also thought Terrance Mann was too old for Frank

Thank god I got to see both original casts or I would not have good memories of those shows

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I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them

#64

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 1:29pm

Tony Randall - The Music Man (tour)
June Havoc (the real dainty june) - Sweeney Todd (tour. No british accent)

#65

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 1:33pm

"Ally Sheedy in HEDWIG, it was just an abortion"

An "ABORTION"? That makes no sense at all. If it was an abortion, then it means the performance was actually halted before it finished.

Perhaps you meant it was "abominable" (detestable or loathsome) or "an aberration" (though it is a common misuse of the word)

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"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#66

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 1:39pm

Hasselhoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff Hasslehoff Hasslehoff Hasslehoff Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoff, Hasslehoffvv

#67

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:02pm

Eww I just can't see a female cast in the role of Hedwig, and then is Yitzhak played by a man? It just screws everything up creatively. Such a beautiful and awesmome show, too. MisterMatt, perhaps the poster called it an abortion as in it killed the performance?

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#68

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:24pm

Vanessa Williams INTO THE WOODS
Adam Pascal CABARET
Mel B RENT
Toni Braxton B&B and AIDA

#69

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:25pm

hasselhoff in anything.

#70

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:48pm

hey! lay off vanessa williams!

#71

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:13pm

Yea, I actually like Vanessa. Wasn't Patti LuPone considered for that role? Thanks God it was Vanessa and not her!

#72

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:19pm

Though I'm stepping into dangerous waters, for literal references, an "abortion" is to stop or end an activity already set in motion before it is completed (though "aborted" is more commonly used). If she "killed" the performance, then it would make sense to say it was a "murder" or "slaughter", but not an "abortion".

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"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#73

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 5:52pm

By abortion I meant it killed the show dead. Yitzak put it in motion and then Sheedy stepped out and killed the show. Yes the entire show was performed. Still had a female Yitzak and a male understudy for Sheedy, who stepped in quite a bit. The show was just awful. If I hadn't brought someone I would have walked out.

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I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them

#74

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 5:57pm

I thought Vanessa was absolutley EXCELLENT in Into The Woods...
Mistermatt- You best be runnin' your gunna get slaughtered for saying Adam Pascal was miscast in Aida.

#75

KissMyCookie

Posted: 8/31/04 at 6:03pm

I thought Matthew Broderick was awful as Harold Hill in the Music Man movie on Disney. He lacked energy and was not exciting in the role.

I also thought Toni Braxton was awful in Aida but maybe I saw her on a bad day...she just "cried" through all the songs, she wasn't even singing!