Broadway Dream Casting

[Joshua Rosenthal]

Posted: 7/3/20 at 2:15pm

Heres some of mine:
Brittany Johnson/Dove Cameron as Elle Woods
Titus Burgess/Alex Newell as Motormouth Maybelle
Jennifer Hudson as Fanny Brice
Beanie Feldstien (maybe if she were younger) as Tracy Turnblad
Eva Noblezada as Lysistrata Jones
More to come! :) Cant Walt to hear your thoughts and ideas!

[Hot Pants]

Posted: 7/4/20 at 3:48pm

Into the Woods:

Brandon Uranowitz as The Baker

Stephanie J. Block as The Baker’s Wife

Katrina Lenk as The Witch

Boyd Gaines as The Narrator/Mysterious Man (wouldn’t mind Chip Zien reprising Mysterious Man alongside Narrator this time as well though)

Philippa Soo as Cinderella

Andy Karl as Cinderella’s Prince/The Wolf

Nicholas Barasch as Jack

Hailey Kilgore as Little Red Ridinghood

Nancy Opel as Jack’s Mother

John Behlmann as Rapunzel’s Prince

And I guess a good Glinda who hasn’t made it big yet as Rapunzel

Updated On: 7/4/20 at 03:48 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/4/20 at 4:02pm

Literally anyone as anybody in any show that I could actually see in a theater again.

[bmgills]

Posted: 7/4/20 at 9:30pm

I’ve wanted Daveed Diggs to play Harold Hill in a revival of the Music Man for a few years and after watching Hamilton I’m convinced he would be incredible.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/4/20 at 11:05pm

This would either work beautifully, or inadvertently create something so offensive that the show could never be produced again, but Donald Glover (or a Donald Glover type) as Finch in "How to Succeed." 

The "Brotherhood of Man" number is built on a staggering number of racial signifiers and innuendos that, with a black Finch against a bunch of white company types, would either be an intensely dark and satirical look at trying to break into the boys' club, tokenism and racism in big business... or would play as a minstrel show. I think a white Finch saving his skin by literally shucking and jiving his way through a Dixieland song is just kind of a dated Broadway joke; a black Finch doing the same is DANGEROUS.

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 1:01am

Julie Andrews or Chita Rivera as Madame Armfeldt A little night music
Cate Blanchett or Donna Murphy. As Desiree. A little night music
Alice Ripley as Norma Desmond Sunset Boulevard
Jonathan Groff as Joseph Joseph
Lea Michele (I know ill get called out for this one) as Fanny Brice. Funny Girl
John Gallagher Jr as Romeo &Juliet
Cheyenne Jackson as Shakespeare. &Juliet
Cheyenne Jackson as Gaston. Beauty and the Beast
Laura Osnes as Belle Beauty and the Beast
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Night Mother
Oprah. mother courage
Cher and Bette in Mame
Ian Mckellen and Maggie Smith. Love letters or The gin game
Helen Mirren as Hamlet
Gender bent Romeo and Juliet Timothee Chalamet and Brenton Thwaites
Lisa Kudrow or Dolly Parton Dolly Levi Hello Dolly
Belting Bonnie. Tracy Turnblad. hairspray.

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 1:09am

Julie Andrews or Chita Rivera as Madame Armfeldt A little night music
Cate Blanchett or Donna Murphy. As Desiree. A little night music
Alice Ripley as Norma Desmond Sunset Boulevard
Jonathan Groff as Joseph Joseph
Lea Michele (I know ill get called out for this one) as Fanny Brice. Funny Girl
John Gallagher Jr as Romeo &Juliet
Cheyenne Jackson as Shakespeare. &Juliet
Cheyenne Jackson as Gaston. Beauty and the Beast
Laura Osnes as Belle Beauty and the Beast
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Night Mother
Oprah. mother courage
Cher and Bette in Mame
Ian Mckellen and Maggie Smith. Love letters or The gin game
Helen Mirren as Hamlet
Gender bent Romeo and Juliet Timothee Chalamet and Brenton Thwaites
Lisa Kudrow or Dolly Parton Dolly Levi Hello Dolly
Belting Bonnie. Tracy Turnblad. hairspray.

Brendon Urie. Orpheus. In Hadestown
Timothee Chalamet as the assistant in RED

[JBroadway]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 1:25am

Theatrefanboy1 said: "John Gallagher Jr as Romeo &Juliet"

 

For a second there, I thought you were suggesting that JGJ should play both Romeo and Juliet simultaneously in a production of Romeo & Juliet. 

Now I see what you meant, haha! 

[Joshua Rosenthal]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 2:24am

Theatrefanboy1 said: "Julie Andrews or Chita Rivera as Madame Armfeldt A little night music
Cate Blanchett or Donna Murphy. As Desiree. A little night music
Alice Ripley as Norma Desmond Sunset Boulevard
Jonathan Groff as Joseph Joseph
Lea Michele (I know ill get called out for this one) as Fanny Brice. Funny Girl
John Gallagher Jr as Romeo &Juliet
Cheyenne Jackson as Shakespeare. &Juliet
Cheyenne Jackson as Gaston. Beauty and the Beast
Laura Osnes as Belle Beauty and the Beast
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Night Mother
Oprah. mother courage
Cher and Bette in Mame
Ian Mckellen and Maggie Smith. Love letters or The gin game
Helen Mirren as Hamlet
Gender bent Romeo and Juliet Timothee Chalamet and Brenton Thwaites
Lisa Kudrow or Dolly Parton Dolly Levi Hello Dolly
Belting Bonnie. Tracy Turnblad. hairspray. "

I love the idea of Dolly Parton as Levi! I don’t know who belting bonnie is so I will check them out. And I think Lea Michele would be a great Fanny Brice but I feel like Jennifer Hudson will be a new take in the role. Besides, I don’t know any colored Fannies. But beyond that, Hudson has the range, and I can see that she can have the hope and the desire and grit that Fanny has. 

[Joshua Rosenthal]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 2:25am

How do we feel about Jennifer Hudson as Fanny Brice and Jennifer Holiday as Mama Rose?

[steven22]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 2:27pm

Stephanie J. Block or Jessie Mueller as Bobby in Company

Stephanie J. Block and Sebastian Arceulus as Diana and Dan in Next to Normal

Audra McDonald and Will Swenson as Diana and Dan in Next to Normal 

[jvoom]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 4:05pm

Laurie Metcalf or Frances McDormand as Violet Weston or Sister Aloysius. Maybe they can do it in rep, rotating roles or something, I don't mind.

Toni Collette as Mame

Renée Zellweger as Mama Rose

Reba in "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

Kate Baldwin as Mother in Ragtime

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 5:22pm

Loretta Swit as Mame. Pamela Tiffin as Vera Charles.

[toottoot]

Posted: 7/5/20 at 7:03pm

Katrina Lenk as Edith Piaf

[Globefan]

Posted: 7/11/20 at 12:05am

Melissa Benoist as Magnolia Hawks