By popular demand: The CAROL CHANNING is painfully miscast thread.

[Mimi Imfurst]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:03pm

So here is how it works, we basically come up with roles that Carol Channing should never play, but somehow it would be captivating to watch:

Elphaba in Wicked
Mimi in RENT
Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray
The Car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Paradice in Brooklyn
Audrey II in Lil' Shop
Charlotte in I am my own Wife
Belle in Beauty and the Beast
The piano/singer in Movin' Out

[apdarcey]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:04pm

you forgot coalhouse in ragtime... the role was practically written for her.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:07pm

Mama Rose in Gypsy
Boy George in Taboo
Sandy the dog in Annie

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:08pm

Hodel in FIDDLER
Dainty June in GYPSY
Caroline in CAROLINE OR CHANGE
Violet in SIDE SHOW
Precious in STEEL PIER

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 02:08 PM

[apdarcey]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:09pm

peter pan in peter pan!

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:09pm

Lady of the Lake - Spamalot
Olive - Spelling Bee
Charity Hope Valentine - Sweet Charity
Annie - Annie

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:09pm

Squeaky Fromme.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:10pm

come up with roles that Carol Channing should never play, but somehow it would be captivating to watch

I can't think of any role she would NOT be captivating in. I don't care HOW wrong she is for a role, she would always be interesting.

By the way, I had a nightmare about LEGENDS last night. Let's just say that if my powers of prognostication are any indication, both Ms. Collins and Ms. Evans might want to re-think this "revival."

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:14pm

Tuptim - The King & I
Laurey - Oklahoma
Captain Von Trapp, Leisel or Rolf - The Sound of Music

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:14pm

Margaret in "Piazza"

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:15pm

I'd rather see her as Fabrizio or Clara in Piazza

[apdarcey]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:16pm

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:19pm

Albin in La Cage
Blanche in Streetcar
Eleanor in The Lion in Winter (With Robert Goulet as Richard)

[apdarcey]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:22pm

does anyone else love her in the musical version of alice?

"jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today!"

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:23pm

Sister Aloysius in DOUBT
I really would like to see that

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:23pm

Barbra Streisand's autobiography "I Am A Funny Girl"

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:24pm

carol channing IS:
HELEN LAWSON!!

[Flight0017]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:27pm

Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:29pm

I love Carol as the White Queen! I still have the tape from the original broadcast (I was, like, 6 when that movie was shown). And to crossthread, Anthony Newley was in that, too (as the Mad Hatter).

[WOSQ]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:31pm

Saint Joan

Juliet

Anne Frank

[apdarcey]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:32pm

i heart that version!!! jam, jam, jam!!!

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:32pm

Tevye

[apdarcey]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:33pm

a) i don't understand why all my pictures are coming up so large today... sorry!

b) don quixote, othello

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:37pm

The One role I would truthfully like to see her play is Madame Armfeldt in NIGHT MUSIC. I think she'd be brilliant.

But as for the painfully miscast -- how about as Caroline in CAROLINE OR CHANGE.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:37pm

Marie Christine
Dessa Rose
Cathy Wellerstein