#1
Who?
Posted: 3/8/11 at 5:15pm
Who?
Updated On: 3/8/11 at 05:15 PM
Black Actresses who could play Mama Rose?
#3
Posted: 3/8/11 at 5:57pm
Tonya Pinkins is the perfect age.
#4
Posted: 3/8/11 at 6:18pm
I will always consider it a missed opportunity that Nell Carter never took on this role.
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
#5
Posted: 3/8/11 at 6:23pm
That is who I was thinking of.
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#6
Posted: 3/8/11 at 6:34pm
Anika is not right for Mama
but she'd blow Louise out of the water!
put her opposite:
Tayna Pinkins as Mama
Norm Lewis as Herbie
Christopher Jackson as Tulsa
and I think you'd have one HELL of a new revival.
Any ideas for June?
but she'd blow Louise out of the water!
put her opposite:
Tayna Pinkins as Mama
Norm Lewis as Herbie
Christopher Jackson as Tulsa
and I think you'd have one HELL of a new revival.
Any ideas for June?
Now all I see are cute boys with short haircuts in a maze of their own...
#7
Posted: 3/8/11 at 6:51pm
June- Nikki Renee Daniels?
Rose- Audra M or Vanessa W
Rose- Audra M or Vanessa W
#8
Posted: 3/8/11 at 7:10pm
I am all for colored blind casting...but Mama Rose was a real person to me it would be like Patti Lupone playing Lena Horn in a show...doesnt work for me sorry...but my 2 cents would be Angela Bassett....tough and cool
#9
I am all for colored blind casting
No you're not.
Posted: 3/8/11 at 7:14pm
I am all for colored blind casting
No you're not.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
#10
Posted: 3/8/11 at 7:14pm
Christopher Jackson would be AWFUL as Tulsa. He has about as much charm as a brick wall.
#12
Posted: 3/8/11 at 7:17pm
Lillias White would be wonderful, I think.
#13
Posted: 3/8/11 at 7:25pm
Hasn't Sheryl Lee Ralph been playing the tough mom a lot (see Sister Act 2, albeit in the completely opposite direction)? Maybe she doesn't belt like Merman, but other Roses have taken the role lower.
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
#15
Posted: 3/8/11 at 7:55pm
I would love to see Audra do this but in 20 years at least.
#16
Posted: 3/8/11 at 8:11pm
NO ONE.
Would you cast a black woman as Golda Meir in GOLDA'S BALCONY?
Would you cast a Native American as Lombardi in LOMBARDI?
Would you cast a black girl as Anne in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK?
No. THEY, like Rose, were REAL, LIVING people. How can you color-blind cast a role based on a real person?
Come on, guys. Really?
Would you cast a black woman as Golda Meir in GOLDA'S BALCONY?
Would you cast a Native American as Lombardi in LOMBARDI?
Would you cast a black girl as Anne in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK?
No. THEY, like Rose, were REAL, LIVING people. How can you color-blind cast a role based on a real person?
Come on, guys. Really?
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#18
Posted: 3/8/11 at 8:38pm
Theatre trash - for the most part, I agree, but I think with this role, exceptions can be made. It's not as if Laurents didn't take creative license with the story, I think in this show, you can take the same creative license in casting.
That said:
Lillias White
Lillias White
Lillias White!
That said:
Lillias White
Lillias White
Lillias White!
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
Updated On: 3/8/11 at 08:38 PM
#19
Posted: 3/8/11 at 8:44pm
Stop this crazy talk it's upsetting theatertrash.
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#20
Posted: 3/8/11 at 8:52pm
^Exactly, Pippin! Mama Rose is BASED ON Rose Havoc. Rose Havoc was white, but Mama Rose is a fictional character that has much in common with Havoc but also much folklore surrounding her.
#21
Posted: 3/8/11 at 8:57pm
Isn't the show titled as a musical fable? Isn't it a story to tell a moral lesson? SO let a Black actress take a crack at the role!
#22
Posted: 3/8/11 at 8:58pm
Jeez guys.
Madame Rose
or
Rose
or
Mama
but she was never called Mama Rose. Arthur would eviscerate you.
Madame Rose
or
Rose
or
Mama
but she was never called Mama Rose. Arthur would eviscerate you.
#24
>>>No. THEY, like Rose, were REAL, LIVING people. How can you color-blind cast a role based on a real person?"<<<
Yet Diana Sands was pretty terrific in SAINT JOAN when Lincoln Center did the play a few decades ago.
Posted: 3/8/11 at 9:21pm
>>>No. THEY, like Rose, were REAL, LIVING people. How can you color-blind cast a role based on a real person?"<<<
Yet Diana Sands was pretty terrific in SAINT JOAN when Lincoln Center did the play a few decades ago.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#25
Posted: 3/8/11 at 9:31pm
She's not with us anymore but... Eartha Kitt?
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