Britney Spears TURNED DOWN 'Sweet Charity'?!?!

[i have a dreamX]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:05am

While 'Sweet Charity' isn't the BEST musical out there, Ms. Spears was LUCKY to even be mentioned as a potential STAR of any Broadway show...that show included. While I am overjoyed she is not going to be in the musical, does the act of Spears-Federline turning down Broadway make the Great White Way even more dead than people thought?

Just something to think about...

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:17am

Never, i think she realized that it would be career suicide for her..... if anything i think Broadway is keeping some sort of prestige

[pab]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:20am

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=877310#1635757

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:24am

According to today's Post, Mr. Britney Spears said no.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:29am

I bet if she had done it she would have made Donna Murphy's attendance record look like Harvey Fierstein's. Maybe that's cruel and preemptively (and, at this point, purely hypothetically) judgmental, but I doubt she would have the stamina or discipline for that many shows per week in a dance-heavy show.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:31am

Really? Have you seen her concerts? Looked at her concert tour schedules? This would be a piece of cake for her, stamina-wise. No traveling, and much lighter dancing than she's used to.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:57am

I think we should all just be glad that, for the time being at least, Britney Spears will not be on a Broadway stage.

[ajayspak2]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 4:48am

God I wish Joey Fatone turned down Rent

[Magdalene]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 9:43am

All I can say is "Thank God!"

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:01am

*plays the Hallelujah Chorus very loudly*

Thank God

[hot_brdwy_diva]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:32am

they probably didn't offer her enough. At least she got a free trip to NYC!

[wickedfan2]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:47am

Her website stated that she did not want to uproot her family to NY after having just bought her new home. She wants to do the family thing for now but was happy to have been approached.

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:48am

She probably realized she wouldn't be able to lip sync.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:50am

Uh, you guys do realize that Broadway is still seen as a step down by a good portion of pop culture? There's a reason most "stars" who tread the boards either came from theater and never really stopped, or are second-rate and past-it TV or movie "personalities" who need any boost they can get. The latter group doesn't look at it as an honor; they look at it as a desperation move.

[Magdalene]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:37pm

I find that amusing---there is nothing harder, or less compensated, than live theater. She's probably just afraid of flopping! (and a well-founded fear it is, too!)

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:58pm

This board is full of clairvoyants.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:06pm

Yes, that's how I can tell that in the future I will drink orange juice.

*drinks some*

See?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:09pm

But do you also know the motivations of people whom you've never met for drinking their orange juice? That's true clairvoyance, and it seems to run rampant here.

[midtowngym]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 4:57pm

Wrong. Theater is viewed as an artistic Step-Up. Madonna, Julia Roberts, Anthony Banderas, Nicole Kidman, Puff Doody. None of them are second rate or past-it.

Updated On: 12/1/05 at 04:57 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:12pm

I was looking forward to this! I think it could have been fun.

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 1:54pm

do you wanna have fun? fun? fun? :)

tennyway, any new buzz for replacements/stars for the show?

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 1:57pm

do you wanna have fun? fun? fun? :)

tennyway, any new buzz for replacements/stars for the show?

[arishmoof]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 1:57pm

two words THANK GOD
two more words GOOD RIDDANCE

[nychick9876]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 2:10pm

as thankful as I am that she is not going to do it, i think it would have been interesting to see her take on it and how she handeled it.