Broadway casting for "Downton Abbey"

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Broadway casting for "Downton Abbey"

Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:00pm

Some inspired casting choices.

http://www.broadway.com/photos/downton-abbey-casting/

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Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:10pm

This is amazing. I wish this would happen - at least for a one performance benefit. Incredible casting.

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Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:13pm

Not really a big fan of Elaine Paige as Isobel, but Rebecca Luker is PERFECT casting for Cora and I'm still laughing at Boyd Gaines as Carson.

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Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:14pm

I'd rather see Norbert Leo Butz and Kelli O'Hara as Bates and Anna than BDJ and CK-B.

The great British stage actress Sara Kestelman would be my choice for Isobel.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Updated On: 2/22/12 at 09:14 PM

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Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:16pm

This really pleased me - well done!

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Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:17pm

I'm also on the fence about Harriet Harris as Mrs Hughes, mostly because I want Mrs Hughes to run this Abbey, but I don't feel the same way about Harriet Harris. And even though Mrs Hughes is capable of giving the sass, I think you need someone a little more proper than Harris.

Updated On: 2/22/12 at 09:17 PM

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Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:34am

Act 1 number "Your Dream is My Dream Now", which means you have to cast Gwen too.

#11

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Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:40am

I think LuPone would be a better O'Brien.

A big belter's song about soap goes without saying.

#12

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Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:50am

The song would have to be called "Slip 'N Fall"

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Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:54am

No, if it's LuPone, the song MUST be called Don't Cry For Me Cora Crawley.

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Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:55am

That would be her Act 2 opener.

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