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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#50re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:25pm
I think this is exciting.
I wouldn't cast Audra as Maggie. She's just too classy to me. Maggie should have some class, but I also think she should be a bit more obviously sexy and fiery.
Some ideas: Sharon Leal, Thandie Newton, Holly Robinson Peete, Tisha Campbell, Naomie Harris, Samaria Graham, Garcelle Beauvais, Kimberly Elise.
#51re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:25pmRetakes.
#52re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:30pmHow is Erika Alexander onstage? I know she's done several things, but I've yet to catch her in anything.
#53re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:31pmIs Beyonce still too young?
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#54re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:31pmoooh would love to see Thandie Newton's take on the role. I would cast Audra though simply to see what'd she'd do with it. She can do just about anything!
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#55re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:34pm
can't wait for cast!
Updated On: 1/4/07 at 01:34 PM
#56re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:38pmWho cares?
iliketheater
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#57re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 2:39pmI CAN NOT WAIT!!!
#58re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 2:44pmCannot is one word.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#59re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 2:44pm
Thandie Newton, really?
Wasn't she the one who sucked soooo much in the sucky sucky Charade remake a few years back with Mark Wahlberg?
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#60re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 2:45pmyeah but check her out in Crash and some of her other work.
#61re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 2:47pmBut does she have stage experience?
#62re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 2:48pmpurpleprince, it just seems a bit premature to worry about the theater.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#64re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:25pmI know a woman with a penis.
#65re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:26pmBut she's already doing a show -- that one where she sings "Fifty Percent," talks about her career and banters with Billy Goldenberg.
#66re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:28pmEff you, Calvin.
#67re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:34pm
My only problem, I can't believe a black man would let himself be called "Skipper". Maybe Skipper is white and Brick is into some "strange".
And Chandra would take no prisoners as Mae.
#68re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:34pm
Do you want a separate "terlot" too, tobesureof?
You are one nasty troll.
#68re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:34pm
And don't put yourself in a "we" with me, sock puppet.
BTW: the only color that matters in show business is GREEN, and you can quote me.
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#70re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:42pm
'The blacks have their plays and we have ours"
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
Do you know see how that statement just REEKS of racism.
Separate but equal does not work,
There is not difference between a black person and a white person except in the color of their skin, that is what this whole thing is about.
I am constantly amazed at the litany of racist comments in the name of theatrical authenticity.
but no one had a problem with Natalie Wood as Maria (come on, people, I smell a double standard).
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
#71re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:50pmWow. I thought that kind of thinking was "Gone With The Wind," pun intended. Them's fightin' words, Tobesureof. And, if I may be so rude, rather ignorant as well.
#72re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:51pmPay no attention to the puppet behind the sock.
#73re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:54pm
Plenty of people had a problem w/ Natalie Wood as Maria, and Rita Moreno as Tuptim, and Laura San Giacomo had death threats (probably from Salma Hayak) when she was supposed to play Frida Kahlo.
#74re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:55pmA few years ago Lloyd Richards tried to get an all-black "Cat on A Hot Tin Roof" produced on Broadway. He had actually cast Tonya Pinkins to play Maggie.
#75re: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF coming back to Broadway with all-black cast
Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:55pm
If it's an all-black cast for this show, then it's a "concept show," and you don't to worry about historical accuracy or appropriateness. There is an understood, known "theatrical perspective" before you even walk through the door.
Personally, I think it's a GREAT idea, and some of the names mentioned in this thread get me really excited about the possibilities.
I would LOVE to see James Earl Jones as Big Daddy, Mary Alice as Big Mama (reuniting the Tony-winning "Fences" stars) and Halle Berry as Maggie... hot! Or how about Phylicia Rashad as Big Mama? Or Charles S. Dutton as Big Daddy?
I have no doubt that a glittering "box office friendly" cast could be assembled for this... and it would probably be a big highlight of the season.
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