Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities- Page 4

[f13overture]

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

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

[Overkill]

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

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

[random person 112]

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

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

[steven22]

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

Kate Shindle as Elphaba!!

[TheatreFreak05]

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]

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...

[GlindatheGood22]

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.

[jayinchelsea]

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]

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]

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]

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

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

[random person 112]

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]

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]

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]

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

Shawn Phillips as Jesus in the original Broadway cast of JCS

[theeatah]

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]

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.

[AC126748]

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.

[gabrieljwickedone]

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

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

[henrikegerman]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Bette Midler as Mama Morton in the CHICAGO film

[AC126748]

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

Natasha Richardson as Lyubov Andreyevna in THE CHERRY ORCHARD.