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#1

Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Workshop

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:09am

I would be so thrilled if Christian Borle were to star in this musical!
Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Workshop
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#3

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:15am

Matthew Morrison is the obvious choice. I think Borle could surprise in this role, much the way that Benanti did in GYPSY.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#7

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:47am

I never said Borle couldn't surprise.

And I don't think Benanti was a surprise, I expected it. Maybe it was a surprise for other people. But, that's another thread.

I just feel that Frank is supposed to be very cool and suave with a voice that can woo any girl within a five mile radius. Unless he works on it, Borle doesn't have that voice.

Maybe he'll prove me wrong. But workshop casting is hardly Broadway casting anyway.
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#8

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:50am

Um....Grey Gardens IS based on a movie.

Piazza is based on a book turned into a movie prior to the musical.

I am a Camera (Cabaret) and Chicago were films before they were Kander and Ebb hit.

Films have been turned into stage musicals long before the resent "boom".
#9

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:51am

Christian Borle? I honestly cannot see him in this.

Frank is supposed to be the sexy, suave, debonair type man, and while Christian may be able to do that in a loveable way, I just can't help but think that Matt Morrison, Richard Blake, Jonathan Groff, or any of the "cute" Broadway actors working right now can't do this role.

I don't know; maybe they're going to change it around a little bit. But I just can't see Christian as a Leo DiCaprio type.
#12

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 11:09am

As much as I love Borle, I think Matthew Morrison is still the best choice for the role. I could see Michael Arden in it though, that would be interesting. Richard Blake is too old for this part. I don't understand the obsession with putting him in roles too young for him. Link? Warner? I can see Glen Gulia as being a little older, so that's fine. But he does not seem young enough for those other roles, including Frank.
#15

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 11:12am

I don't think Matthew Morrison was available. Isn't he in LA doing a TV series?
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Updated On: 7/10/07 at 11:12 AM

#16

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:00pm

i love Nathan lane and christian borle but i not interested in seeing this musical at all. they need to start writing orginal musicals again and stop getting them from movies. Legally Blonde is one of the only ones i can think of is the best musical off based on a movie.
#17

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:18pm

I have no doubt Lane will ace this role. But Borle is VERY interesting casting. I like it.

I also thought of Arden at first (he can still 'read' as very young on stage), but I think Borle will be up to the task. He's a talented guy, and the one of the very best things about LEGALLY BLONDE.
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Updated On: 7/10/07 at 12:18 PM

#18

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 12:53pm

Um....Grey Gardens IS based on a movie.

Documentary as opposed to Hollywood fiction movie, which was the implication I got from the other poster.

Piazza is based on a book turned into a movie prior to the musical.

Based on a book that also had a movie based on it. So not actually based on the movie. 'Myths And Hymns' was much more random, and 'Floyd Collins' was historical fact.

I am a Camera (Cabaret) and Chicago were films before they were Kander and Ebb hit.

But 'Curtains' wasn't, and afaik 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' was based on the book rather than the film that was also made of it.

Films have been turned into stage musicals long before the resent "boom".

A fact of which I am fully aware and usually fight to remind people of (I'm agreeing with you on this point, not arguing re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh).
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Updated On: 7/10/07 at 12:53 PM

#19

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 1:09pm

Adaptation is adaptation. Before movies, there were plays and novels. Movies are NO different. The problem is not movie adaptations, its certain things about that particlar adaptation genre you don't find elsewhere. Musicals that seem to come out of marketing meetings, shows that aren't an adaptation, but a rehash, etc.
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#23

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 1:51pm

I can't wait for this! Nathan is getting a lot of work lately. Two movies, a TV show, and two new Broadway shows. I'm really happy for him.

I can see Borle in the role.
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#24

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 3:00pm

McNally's books for musicals have always been great to me. Ragtime, A Man of No Importance. But I really dislike the casting of Borle. I guess I'm too used to listening to Morrison on the demo, but he sounds fantastic and, judging from Borle's Spamalot and Legally Blonde performances, much better for the role. EVERY piece of casting gets the benefit of the doubt from me, even Hugh Panaro in-well, anything.
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#25

re: Christian Borle & Nathan Lane Set To Star in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Worksh

Posted: 7/10/07 at 3:36pm

Ugh, I'm really not excited about Nathan Lane starring in this musical.
I hope Sara Gettelfinger and Rachelle Rak are still attached to this project, they were the reason I was excited about it (and Matthew Morrison, but now he is gone as well).
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