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City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
#25re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 4:57pmPersonally, I think Lola should be played by someone who is a dancer first, and not someone who can learn to dance. It just seems that there aren't really that many big roles anymore for people who are really great dancers (isn't there some joke about leads not dancing?), so it just seems that this is a part that should go to someone who's been working their whole life to get to do a part like this.
MenzelManiac
Leading Actor Joined: 1/8/05
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#27re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 7:48pm
Bobby, Ziemba may be too old (and not so much a sexpot as the funny, quirky girl next door), but girlfriend has a FIERCE body.
Updated On: 4/7/08 at 07:48 PM
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#29re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 7:50pmI think John Lithgow will be great also John Price too!
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#30re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 7:51pmI'm so tired of John Lithgow and his smug beret-wearing self. Let someone else do it.
#31re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 7:58pmZiemba is great, but she's too old for Lola.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#32re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:01pmShe also is not the right type. But I adore her.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#33re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:33pmBarbara Cook has just signed to play Lola.
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Switz78
Featured Actor Joined: 12/9/04
#34re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:20pm
Kristen or Megan Sikora would be great as Gloria!
How about Brian Dennehy and Donna McKechnie as Joe and Meg Boyd. Jarrod Emmick as Joe Hardy or some other tall guy. I'd like to see like a 6'3" Joe Hardy who's HOT. Hell let's get Derek Jeter to do it. 
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#35re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:28pm
You guys....Fantasia is playing Lola. It was in the press release.
duh
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#36re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:52pmLoving the idea of Jane Krakowski as Lola!
#37re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:56pm
I feel like Norb is too short to play Applegate.
I don't know, I always pictured him as a tall guy.
But Norb could definitely tackle it, and hit it out of the park.
#38re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:25pmapplegate isn't dependent on the actor's height, the character is dependent on the power and presence of the actor, both of which Norbert has..
#40re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 12:51amDavid Burtka as Joe. I'd love to see that nice butt in a tight baseball uniform
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#41re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 12:54amIs there a young Ann Reinking type out there? Great dancer, great voice quality?
#42re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 6:39pm
So now we know Applegate and Lola what about everyone else
Joel Gray for the coach
#43re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 6:47pm
I wonder who they are trying to get for Joe.
Joe is really the center of the show, though the focus is usually on Lola and Applegate due to the fact they are the showier roles.
Would love to get a Neil Patrick Harris type. I just really wanna see a show with Harris and Krakowski. Plus, Harris and Hayes have great chemistry, they did an episode of WILL & GRACE together and they were fantastic.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#44re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 7:04pmPatrick Wilson as Joe?
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#45re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 7:04pmCheyenne Jackson was their first choice for Joe, but he is unavailable due to contractual commitments to XANADU.
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Dollypop
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#46re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 7:08pm
Ah, but Patrick Wilson can actually swing a bat--and slug a few homers, too!
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Updated On: 4/21/08 at 07:08 PM
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#47re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:39pm
Karen Ziemba is FIFTY! She likes to KICK anbd STRETCH and KICK! She's FIFTY!
Seriously, back in 1994, Bebe was unhappy with the tryout in California, and said she might not want to do it on Broadway - a negotiating ploy for more money. The producers called up Karen Ziemba (who was doing Crazy for You at the time) and told her that if they could't get Bebe to sign, they wanted her.
Yes, 14 years ago, she would have been a great Lola.
#48re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 10:51pmshe would have been a better lola than bebe was.
#49re: City Centers Damn Yankees Casting?
Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:50pm
Ziemba would indeed have made a perfect Lola back then. I don't particularly enjoy Neuwirth in the cast recording. Wish Ziemba had been able to do the role.
Jackson would have been so wonderful, especially given the much-talked about energy he has with Krakowski (from all reports that I've heard from those who saw them in XANADU workshops).
What other names are they tackling?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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