#126
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.
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#127
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)
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)
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Updated On: 1/4/13 at 05:27 PM
#128
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)
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)
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#129
Posted: 1/4/13 at 6:26pm
If you want a Mame with balls then why not Charles Busch?
#130
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?
Didn't he already do a production of the non-musical version?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#131
Posted: 1/4/13 at 7:00pm
Loretta Devine as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost
Emily Skinner as Mother in Ragtime
Emily Skinner as Mother in Ragtime
#132
Posted: 1/4/13 at 7:12pm
Patti in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls as Adelaide
#133
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.
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
#134
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
#135
Posted: 1/4/13 at 9:32pm
I feel like Virginia Vestoff could have made an incredibly lovely Desiree.
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Updated On: 1/4/13 at 09:32 PM
#136
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!
And yes to Patti as Fanny Brice!
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#137
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.
#138
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.
#139
Posted: 1/5/13 at 7:24am
Angela Lansbury as Violet in August: Osage County.
#140
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.
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.
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#141
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
#142
Posted: 1/5/13 at 8:04pm
Michael Crawford as Higgins in My Fair Lady
#143
Posted: 1/5/13 at 8:09pm
Michael Crawford as Higgins in My Fair Lady
#144
Posted: 1/5/13 at 10:39pm
Sherie Rene Scott and Notbert Leo Butz as Mack and Mabel.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#145
Posted: 1/6/13 at 12:58am
Hasn't Harvey Fierstein played Tevye already?
#146
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.
#147
Posted: 1/6/13 at 1:31am
That's what I thought, just wanted to correct PTOPhan
#150
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.
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.
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