Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities- Page 4

[f13overture]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #75

Posted: 10/12/11 at 5:39pm

Christine Ebersole as Diana in N2N
Updated On: 10/12/11 at 05:39 PM

[Overkill]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #76

Posted: 10/12/11 at 9:04pm

LOVE the idea of Gene Wilder as Tevye! That would have been amazing.

[random person 112]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #77

Posted: 12/25/11 at 12:46pm

Victoria Clark or Alice Ripley as Dot in Sunday in the park with george.

[steven22]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #78

Posted: 12/25/11 at 1:54pm

Kate Shindle as Elphaba!!

[TheatreFreak05]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #79

Posted: 12/25/11 at 8:26pm

Carol Channing as Ms. Tottendale in The Drowsy Chaperone. I wish this happened

Also Alice Ripley as Nancy in Oliver!, Florence in Chess, and Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She had SUCH a gorgeous voice. Its so sad that its completely shot now.

[Trekkie2]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #80

Posted: 12/25/11 at 11:20pm

Matthew Broderick & Alice Ripley- Baker/Baker's wife in ITW. Don't ask me why, but I can't get the thought out of my head...

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[GlindatheGood22]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #81

Posted: 12/25/11 at 11:26pm

I read in Vivien Leigh's autobiography that she was given the chance to replace Uta Hagen in the West End's original Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What a coup that would have been.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[jayinchelsea]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #82

Posted: 12/26/11 at 12:49am

Lee Remick as Desiree. She would have been magnificent. She had been announced for the LA production around 1990, but became too ill, and died in 1991 at age 55. Her great beauty often overshadowed her great talent. After ANYONE CAN WHISTLE closed, she did an amazing ANNIE GET YOUR GUN at Westbury Music Fair. A great loss, still missed and remembered today.

[gabrieljwickedone]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #83

Posted: 12/26/11 at 1:13am

Meryl Streep as The Witch in Into The Woods

I also agree with Julie Andrews as Mrs. Lovett

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #84

Posted: 12/26/11 at 7:44am

Beth Leavel as Fanny when she was younger.

Haven Burton as Sheila in Hair, she still has time in another production.
Natalie Weiss as Nina in In The Heights.
Gavin Creel as Jesus in Godspell, if only that production actually ever happened.
Mandy Gonzalez as Evita, she still could do this production after Elena.

[EponineAmneris]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #85

Posted: 12/26/11 at 10:13am

Antonio Banderas as Gomez and Idina Menzel as Morticia in THE ADDAMS FAMILY...

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[random person 112]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #86

Posted: 12/26/11 at 11:50am

Anyone else think Marin Mazzie would have been a great christine in phantom of the opera, she's way better than the show but she'd just Kill it.

[darquegk]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #87

Posted: 1/5/12 at 3:55pm

Neil Patrick Harris as Finch in How To Succeed. Would have been, and I'm sorry to sink to this punchline, but I must, legendary.

[emida]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #88

Posted: 1/5/12 at 4:10pm

Never thought about it... by you're right, it would've been a great casting! I can totally see it.

Also, I would've loved to see Kristin Chenoweth as Ado Annie and Bernadette Peters as Cora Hoover.

The biggest missed casting opportunity for me though will always be Judy Garland as Mama Rose. Makes me want to cry sometimes. At least I can listen to her sing Some people and Together, Wherever We Go.

[gvendo2005]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #89

Posted: 1/5/12 at 4:19pm

Shawn Phillips as Jesus in the original Broadway cast of JCS

"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

[theeatah]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #90

Posted: 1/5/12 at 4:35pm

Dolores Gray in MAME. If she did it in London, we'd likely have the London cast recording that's allegedly in the vaults.

Liza Minnelli instead of Midler in the Gypsy remake. She was in good shape in the early 1990s.

Much as I like Jan Maxwell, Phyllis in Follies is even better suited to Bebe Neuwirth's talents.

[givesmevoice]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #91

Posted: 1/5/12 at 4:43pm

Bernadette Peters as Cora Hoover

I admit I was half-expecting her to be in the Encores! production.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[AC126748]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #92

Posted: 1/5/12 at 10:28pm

Victoria Clark or Alice Ripley as Dot in Sunday in the park with george.


Clark played Dot as a replacement/understudy in the original Broadway production.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[gabrieljwickedone]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #93

Posted: 1/5/12 at 11:16pm

Robin Williams and Goldie Hawn as The Baker and Baker's Wife in ITW

[henrikegerman]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #94

Posted: 1/6/12 at 9:13am

Gene Wilder as Tevye

Leslie Caron as Coco

Anne Bancroft as Maria Callas

Lilian Gish as Blanche Dubois (didn't Williams write it with her in mind?)

Anna Magnani as Serafina Delle Rose on stage (Williams definitely wrote it for her, of course she won the oscar for it)

Bette Midler as Madame Arkadina (with the right director!!!)

River Phoenix as Trofimov

Jane Lapotaire as Fraulein Schneider and Madame Hortense (these could still happen, why not?) and as Irma la Douce

Cherry Jones as Saint Joan

Ed Norton as Thomas Becket

Bea Arthur In Mother Courage

Paul Sorvino as Tony in The Most Happy Fella

Lynn Redgrave as Mrs. Anna, Mame, Mama Rose, etc., etc., etc.

And let's not even start thinking about Natasha Richardson or we will never stop crying.





Updated On: 1/6/12 at 09:13 AM

[random person 112]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #96

Posted: 1/17/12 at 3:52pm

Betty White as sally, at the time of the orginal production she would have been perfect just listen to her, she even has operatic traning under her belt.
Don't tell me she wouldn't have rocked it.

[henrikegerman]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #97

Posted: 1/17/12 at 5:16pm

^ Holy Cow, Random, you weren't kidding. And she would have been wonderful and heartbreaking as Sally. I never had any idea she could sing at all, let alone so beautifully.

If anyone has any doubts after hearing on "It's A Good Day," just listen to this:


SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER BETTY Updated On: 1/17/12 at 05:16 PM

[ComingUpRoses2]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #98

Posted: 1/17/12 at 6:24pm

Wow! Betty's got a GREAT voice! Now, her as Sally is right up there with Judy Garland not playing Madame Rose in terms of missed opportunities. What a treat that would have been. She'd have been deliciously giddy, hilarious, and heartbreaking!

[undercoveractor]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #99

Posted: 1/17/12 at 7:11pm

Bette Midler as Mama Morton in the CHICAGO film

[AC126748]

Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities #100

Posted: 1/17/12 at 7:19pm

Natasha Richardson as Lyubov Andreyevna in THE CHERRY ORCHARD.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body