Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW

[BustopherPhantom]

Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#1

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:21pm

"Elisabeth Moss, who plays Peggy Olson on AMC's "Mad Men," will play the role of temp secretary Karen, according to Variety. Moss' role was created by pop star Madonna in the play's 1988 Broadway bow. Speed-the-Plow will mark Moss' Broadway debut."

Fun Theater Fact: Moss played Baby Louise in the Bette Midler TV adaptation of GYPSY.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/119691.html

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

Updated On: 7/21/08 at 07:21 PM

[Heybeenfood]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#2

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:27pm

I love her. She and Piven are my favorite actors on my favorite shows. And Raul isn't bad either...

[thetinymagic2]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#2

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:29pm

Oh, EXCELLENT! My fave TV show - (MADMEN - brilliant). she's perfect. they are, too, although this Mamet play is not my favorite, I'm hoping the cast shines and makes it worthwhile!

[frogs_fan85]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#3

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:31pm

I'll take it. Much better than the horrific Jessica Alba rumors from months back.

[orangeskittles]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#4

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:39pm

Heh, I remember her from the Escape to Witch Mountain remake.

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Wanting life but never knowing how

[thetinymagic2]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#5

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:40pm

It's not good to stunt cast the sec'y role (small, but pivotal role), because it throws off the entire dynamic of the play, as the producers of the original BC did with Madonna, who could hardly *speak*. And if you're old enough to remember the time before digital cameras, etc., the audience misbehaved so horrendously (with big flash cameras and huge *hidden* (?!) camcorders, I felt sorry for Mantegna and Silver, who valiantly forged ahead every night. I still have the playbill and "insert" which in no uncertain terms, warned the aud. that cameras would be confiscated by the mgmt., etc. It was nightmarish. Now I really feel sorry for Daniel Radcliffe. that theater is going to be like a zoo.

[winter_sky]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#6

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:42pm

orangeskittle,

Me too! that's what I know her from. I have a very sentimental attachment to that movie...and Erik von Detten. haha

Elisabeth Moss isn't exactly a stunt cast. I doubt most people would even know who she is.
Updated On: 7/21/08 at 07:42 PM

[Weez]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#7

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:47pm

In that picture on Playbill.com, she looks kinda like Martha Plimpton. ^_^

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[BobbyBubby]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#8

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:49pm

She's superb on "Mad Men". Thank goodness no Alba!

[Yankeefan007]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#9

Posted: 7/21/08 at 8:05pm

No idea who she is.

[Grand Motel]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#10

Posted: 7/21/08 at 8:14pm

Not stunt casting but either way it's a terribly boring play no matter who stars in it.

[verynewyorkcurious]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#11

Posted: 7/21/08 at 11:21pm

I've never seen Mad Men but have only heard really good things about it.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#12

Posted: 7/22/08 at 12:20am

I've only seen her in THE WEST WING and she was alright.

"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"

[RentBoy86]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#13

Posted: 7/22/08 at 10:28pm

I just got Season 1 of Mad Men today, and I haven't stopped watching it since. (I have to watch it all before Sunday, so i can watch Season 2). But it's a great show, and she's wonderful in it. She's so subtle, so I hope that translates well to the stage.

[Chance]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#14

Posted: 7/22/08 at 10:33pm

UGH, now I KNOW I'm gonna have to suffer through piven so i can see her

[ShbrtAlley44]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#15

Posted: 7/22/08 at 11:15pm

She also played Polly in Girl, Interrupted.

[thejcm]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#16

Posted: 7/22/08 at 11:26pm

Torch!

I love her, I think she's a great actress from the things I've seen her in.

"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs." -RuPaul

[Robert Taylor]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#17

Posted: 7/22/08 at 11:29pm

She tends to steal every scene in Mad Men she is in, so I cannot wait to see her here.

[luvtheEmcee]

re: Elisabeth Moss Completes Casting of SPEED-THE-PLOW#18

Posted: 7/23/08 at 12:52am

Heh, I remember her from the Escape to Witch Mountain remake.

Hee, me too.

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