Cavenaugh Offered the Role of Tony in WSS — Page 6

Romeo and Juliet certainly is rarely cast that way professionally. It's acting. If you can suspend your disbelief over all the other wonderfully crazy things theatre asks us to, you can certain suspend your disbelief over this. How many movies and TV shows do the same thing? And that involves closeups.

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Matt was thoroughly convincing as teen-aged Jerry in Grey Gardens.

Maybe, but when Joe Jr. checked out the prepubescent Jackie, the exchange bothered me. When I think of the show, that exchange still sticks out in my mind as being very awkward and pulling me out of the moment. They could have foreshadowed in a way that didn't involve a man in his mid-twenties leering at a preteen.


Matt was not who I imagined after all the hype of a revolutionary reimagining of the show, but I don't necessarily have a problem with it. I love WSS, but Tony isn't exactly my favorite character. When the casting for Maria, Riff, Bernardo and Anita is finalized, however, I'll be more passionate about the results.

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Have you seen how old they are in Grease now? Be grateful we'll have actors for WSS under 40! Some of them in Grease look like their eligible for AARP!

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The people who keep sniping that "it's not like they cast a grandpa as Tony" are missing the point. Perhaps Laurents's revolutionary revision of the show is that that ALL the actors are going to be in their 30s.

Nail. Hit. On. The. Head.

Thank you Pennywise.

I just hope he hits the optional B in "Maria." That's what I'm paying to hear. Although, i wouldn't say I'm a fan of his voice. It always sounds like character singing.