Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
#1Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:24pm
Making her Broadway debut. At least I would consider Claire Danes as a movie actress that I can see doing a decent job on stage.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/109449.html
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#2re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:28pmI am so glad that the Roundabout is recruiting terrific actors to perform in this bland play.
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#2re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:28pmdouble post. Updated On: 7/10/07 at 04:28 PM
#3re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:28pm
whoa, forget seeing THE LITTLE MERMAID or YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN in November... my sister and I am so seeing this :)
Thats awesome!
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#4re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:29pmThey should ask Julie Andrews to play Mrs. Higgins.
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#5re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:31pmSo happy that we renewed our membership.
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#6re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:36pmI hated her in Romeo + Juliet, but I could see her doing well in this.
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#7re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:38pmGreat choice!
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#8re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:39pmCool!! Definitely on my must see list!!
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gustof777
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#9re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:41pmHugh Dancy as Freddy?
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#10re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:41pm
Has to be said, I really really REALLY don't like Claire Danes. But that said, she's a phenomenal actress. Should be good! ^_^
BwayBaby18
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#11re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:49pmUh did anyone else see her in Evening, she gave the performance of a Wooden Soldier.
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#12re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 5:05pmreally? I really enjoyed her performance. I'm with weez on this one. I can't stand Danes at all but think she is a great actress and could be wonderful in this role.
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
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#13re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 5:05pmsilly double post!
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
Updated On: 7/10/07 at 05:05 PM
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#14re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:04pmGood casting.
#15re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:04pmI find her to be a phenomenal actress and she actually has stage experience. I am terribly excited that she will be making her Broadway debut, I guess I'll have to end up seeing this play after all.
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#16re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:11pmI am SO excited about this; I've been a huge fan of hers since My So Called Life. I think she'll be wonderful in the role.
#17re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:16pm
"They should ask Julie Andrews to play Mrs. Higgins."
I think Mrs. Higgins is too much of a bitch for Julie Andrews to play, but I'd love to see her onstage again.
#18re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:19pmWell, we do know Billy Crudup won't be playing Freddy.
#19re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:42pmI'm confused, how come everyone keeps saying that she's a great actress but they can't stand her? Don't we tend to dislike people we DON'T think are good actors.
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#20re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:22pmNow this is inspired casting.
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#21re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:46pm
I enjoy her, but I think she's a bit one note. She's utterly the same in everything.
This is interesting casting. I don't know why, but for some reason I don't know if I'll be able to buy Danes with that accent.
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#22re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:56pmHer English accent in Stage Beauty was note perfect.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#23re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:58pmWhich is not the same accent used by Eliza...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#24re: Claire Danes to Play Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's Pygmalion
Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:59pmNot as cockney as Eliza's, but surely in the same fach.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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