Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
dev101
Featured Actor Joined: 8/31/14
#1Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 11:46am
What celebrities would you like to see on broadway?
My top choices are Matt Bomer (in a musical), Bradley Cooper (I know he was just in Elephant Man, but he's fantastic), and I feel like Robert Downey Jr. could do something interesting, but he might be too famous :/
#2Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 12:40pm
Amy Adams
Benedict Cumberbatch
Michael Douglas
Michael Fassbender
Anne Hathaway
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#3Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 12:51pm
I'd love to see P!nk take a shot at Broadway.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
dev101
Featured Actor Joined: 8/31/14
#5Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:12pm
OMG yes Lady Gaga would be amazing! and id love to see Anne Hathaway too.
Showface
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#6Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:20pm
Hasn't Lady Gaga's acting on AHS been critically panned?
#7Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:35pm
Lady Gaga's performance in AHS is fine. She's not giving an Oscar worthy performance or anything, but she's not as bad as she's been made out to be. She's got a great voice that I'm sure would transfer well to broadway.
I'd love to see Amy Poehler do a musical. She's a talented comedian with a nice voice. She could give a pretty excellent performance in the right part.
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#8Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:40pm
My wish is that RDJ spends his remaining time as an actor on stage instead of in a superhero costume. My Goodness, how much $ do you really need?
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dev101
Featured Actor Joined: 8/31/14
#9Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:46pm
mc1227 said: "My wish is that RDJ spends his remaining time as an actor on stage instead of in a superhero costume. My Goodness, how much $ do you really need?
Exactly what i was thinking. Like he has the range to do broadway, and he could really find something he is passionate about like Bradley Cooper did with Elephant Man. RDJ never needs to work another day in his life.
Updated On: 11/8/15 at 01:46 PM
#10Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:50pm
Its already been talked about a lot but Kate Winslet would be great
#11Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:57pm
Kate Winslet, Amy Adams, Viola Davis (she needs to return to the stage), Dylan McDermott, the return of Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, and Claire Danes (although after her Broadway debut in 2007 she stated that she might not have the energy to do Broadway again).
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#12Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 2:14pm
Johnny Depp
Anne Hathaway
Meryl Streep
Angelina Jolie
Christian Bale
broadwayboy223
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/2/14
#13Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 2:31pm
Not really a celebrity but I would love to see Naya Rivera on Broadway. I've said this before but she would kill Angelica or Eliza in Hamilton
#15Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:01pm
I'm pretty sure we've had many many threads on this same topic before. But whatever, I'll bite:
Whenever someone poses this question, the first person that comes to my mind is Christoph Waltz. I'm quite surprised he hasn't done it already, to be honest. He'd be brilliant onstage, especially in the right role.
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#16Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:20pm
I'm still not that fond of plays and I can't think of any celebrity off the top of my head whose singing is up to snuff who hasn't already been on Broadway. I don't know. Can I say Jodi Benson?
#17Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:31pm
I'd like to see Emma Watson give it a shot, and Jen Lawrence. I'd kill to see Kathy Bates, Viola Davis, and Meryl Streep again. Eddie Redmayne would be interesting. I'd like to see Darren Criss originate something.
#18Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:36pm
"Eddie Redmayne would be interesting."
The 2010 Tony Voters would agree!
#19Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:39pm
JBroadway said: ""Eddie Redmayne would be interesting."
The 2010 Tony Voters would agree!
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Ahh I forgot about that! Plays are too dry for my liking so I never go, to be honest.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#20Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:41pm
Daniel Day-Lewis
Isabelle Huppert
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#21Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 5:19pm
Plays are too dry for my liking so I never go, to be honest.
And then there's the whole ACCENT thing.
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#22Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 6:26pm
I would like to see Leonardo Dicaprio in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
MVintheheartland
Featured Actor Joined: 11/19/13
#23Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 6:33pm
The trouble with "celebrities", is that they achieved their celebrity through movies. Acting in movies is sure a different animal than acting on the stage, and frankly, I think our stage actors have the craft, the stamina, and the professionalism that film actors don't have. Even I could probably look okay in a movie if they did 100 takes of my dialog.
This sort of relates to the thread with actors using earpieces. The "stars" don't need to memorize (do the work), which I think is sort of ridiculous.
#24Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 8:04pm
FindingNamo said: "Plays are too dry for my liking so I never go, to be honest.
And then there's the whole ACCENT thing."
And don't get me started on foreign films. IF I WANTED TO READ, I'D GO TO THE LIBRARY.
I'd like to see Tilda Swinton, Gillian Anderson, Laura Dern, Romola Garai or Christina Hendricks on Broadway.
#25Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/15 at 8:27pm
Patton Oswalt, Gillian Jacobs, Mads Mikkelsen
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