Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities- Page 6

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 5:17pm

How is Audra McDonald as Lili Vanessi/Kate a missed opportunity?? She can (and should) still play it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 5:27pm

Sara Ramirez as Elphaba
Betty Buckley as Diana
Sherie Rene Scott as Clio/Kira
Fuschia Walker as Caroline (I hope she still gets the chance to play the role somewhere)

Updated On: 1/4/13 at 05:27 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 6:16pm

Thanks to whoever bumped this thread.

Brenda Blethyn as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie

Cleo Laine as Carlotta in Follies (the song's on her cd)

Loretta Devine as Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Bette Midler as Mame (enough with elegant Mames, let's see some Mames with balls)

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 6:26pm

If you want a Mame with balls then why not Charles Busch?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 6:52pm

"If you want a Mame with balls then why not Charles Busch?"

Didn't he already do a production of the non-musical version?

[Younger Brother]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 7:00pm

Loretta Devine as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost
Emily Skinner as Mother in Ragtime

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 7:12pm

Patti in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls as Adelaide

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 7:36pm

Patti LuPone in a full production of Passion while she was age appropriate, or as the Witch in Into the Woods, of as Florence in Chess, or in Funny Girl. She could have done many things. Bernadette Peters might have lost out on her opportunities to play Mrs. Lovett at this point. I would almost say that they should have done Follies, as Phyllis and Sally, respectively, in the early to mid 90s.

Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews in She Loves Me. This almost happened and should have. Dorothy Collins in She Loves Me as well, or did she do it in stock? Dick Van Dyke in The Music Man at City Center should have been filmed.... Damn. Julie Andrews should have made the movie of A Little Night Music.

Kevin Kline as Sweeney Todd, and many other roles.


Updated On: 1/4/13 at 07:36 PM

Posted: 1/4/13 at 8:38pm

Don't know if it is on here but Barbara Streisand as Elphaba and Julie Andrews as Glinda in Wicked

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 9:32pm

I feel like Virginia Vestoff could have made an incredibly lovely Desiree.

Updated On: 1/4/13 at 09:32 PM

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 1/4/13 at 11:20pm

Ooh Sherie Rene Scott would have been fabulous as Kira in XANADU! And then in that case let's get Audra in KISS ME KATE! Maybe opposite John Barrowman?

And yes to Patti as Fanny Brice!

[JBroadway]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 3:16am

Carolee Carmello in pretty much every role that she hasn't already played is a missed opportunity. Particularly many of Sondheim's roles. She still has time to play good roles though. I'd love to see her as Mama Rose or Sally Durant or Joanne in Company.

[CHOOKA2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 5:29am

I know not a missed opportunity, but Patti could and should play Mamma Morton-would keep Chicago going another 10 years.

[Will42]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 7:24am

Angela Lansbury as Violet in August: Osage County.

[PTOPhan]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 3:09pm

Some of these are still possibilities:

Nathan Lane or Harvey Fierstein as Tevye (if Fierstein can resist the urge to camp it up; Nathan Lane would be perfect and may have played the role).
Gerard Butler or Jeremy Irons or Patrick Stewart as Henry Higgins. (There’s still time for Gerry, but the other two have gotten too old, despite the current tendency to cast actors in their sixties as Higgins, instead of their forties).
Johnny Depp or Sacha Baron Cohen as Alfred P. Doolittle.
Sierra Boggess as Eliza Doolittle or Queen Guinevere.
Any of the tall, good-looking Raouls (e.g., John Cudia, Sean MacLaughlin, Kyle Barisich, Patrick Wilson) as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Sir Lancelot, Frank Butler, or Billy Bigelow.
Hugh Jackman or Mandy Patinkin or Colm Wilkinson (twenty years ago) as Emile de Becque.
Julie Andrews (way back when, if she could have mastered the accent) or Kristin Chenoweth as Nellie Forbush.

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 3:21pm

Lane of course was offered Tevye in the 2004 revival but didn't want to do it because he had just done a Zero Mostel role in 2001 with The Producers & didn't want to do another one

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 8:04pm

Michael Crawford as Higgins in My Fair Lady

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 8:09pm

Michael Crawford as Higgins in My Fair Lady

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 10:39pm

Sherie Rene Scott and Notbert Leo Butz as Mack and Mabel.

[ILuv2shop531]

Posted: 1/6/13 at 12:58am

Hasn't Harvey Fierstein played Tevye already?

[Cupid Boy2]

Posted: 1/6/13 at 1:05am

^^Yes, he has. He was a replacement for the last Broadway revival as well as the national tour that launched in 2009.

[ILuv2shop531]

Posted: 1/6/13 at 1:31am

That's what I thought, just wanted to correct PTOPhan

[Wynbish]

Posted: 1/6/13 at 1:35am

Posted: 1/6/13 at 2:28am

Rachel York as Fanny Brice

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 1/6/13 at 10:29am

To go back in time with my ideas:

Bert Lahr as Pseudolus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

Barbara Harris or Dorothy Loudon as Sally in "Follies"

Catherine Deneuve as Desiree Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music", though now she would be a fantasic Madame Armfeldt.