Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
#1Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:00pm
Just read it on ATC.
Am TOTALLY excited for the first preview.
#2re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:01pmThat's GREAT casting!
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#2re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:05pmYEAH IT IS!! So excited!!
#3re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:07pmNow, if only they'd cast Erin Davie as Louise... (except that would mean either a LONG vacay from GG, or it closing, neither of which I'm willing to agree to.)
#4re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:09pmI really want Ann Hathaway.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
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#6re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:10pm
Word on the street is that Laura Benanti will indeed be playing Louise.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
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Updated On: 5/21/07 at 02:10 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#8re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:15pmBenanti? Really. That's interesting casting.
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#10re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:25pmVery untrue "word on the street".
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#11re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 2:40pmI can't wait for this! I have tickets for the first preview!
#12re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 3:51pm
Yay!
I'm dying for some Louise news though.
#13re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 3:53pmI would love Hathaway as Louise too.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#14re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 3:59pm
Oh great, Benanti in another miscast role she'll never show up for.
I vote for Nancy Anderson or Jen Cody (who I saw do the role in Seattle) as June
#15re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 4:01pmJen Cody as Baby June, maybe, but I could never buy her as Louise.
#16re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 6:35pmNot Nancy Anderson. Verry little sex apeal. I'll go with Hathaway, Foster, or Benanti.
#17re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 6:37pm
Foster would probably be great.
And a big NO to Cody. SO ANNOYING.
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#18re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 6:40pmThis is excellent! Lots of good events happening for him as of late.
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#20re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 6:45pmI know Foster is a huge LuPone fan, she's probably begging for the role. I'm not a big fan of hers, but of the names thrown out so far, she's my favourite.
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#21re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 8:01pmI like my Louise to have big boobs.
#22re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/21/07 at 11:52pmI heard they tried to get Pam Anderson...
#23re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/22/07 at 2:32am
Anderson would've been great as Louise...not so sure if she could make a bealivable transformation into the bombshell stripper though. Did she decline, jewishboy? 
I think Benanti is just too old (and miscast indeed) to play Louise, I mean, come on!
Foster reads young-ish on stage so she'd be great. Hathaway is the most suitable choice for the role out of the names that have been thrown out, I can't think of anyone who'd be able to master both acts as well as Hathaway.
Jen Cody should stay away from the stage, she is such an annoying performer.
If they decided to go for color-blind casting, which I know EVERYONE but me would criticize, I'd love to see Anika Noni Rose in the role.
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#24re: Boyd Gaines is Herbie (Gypsy) at City Center
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:25am
Anything that gets Laura Benanti on stage makes me happy.
I tend to trust Ilovetheatretrash, but I hope he's wrong. 
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