GeorgeandDot said: "Bart really is brilliant, but I still can't wrap my head around his casting here. There are so many broadway actresses who could have played this part. Why grab a nearly unknown 40 year old TV actress to play the part? I would have loved for him to have gone with an unknown or a broadway actress, or a performer from the opera world. I mean, is anyone really all that interested in seeing Ambrose in this role other than Sher?"
You and I have largely been on pretty much the same page throughout this whole thing (even though we disagree about Phillipa Soo!), but I have to give dear Bart the benefit of the doubt here. Indeed, Ambrose seems a completely bizarre choice, but at the end of the day, we weren't in that audition room when she was before him. She might have something transcendent that Bart knows he can harness into a sensational Eliza Doolittle that we just haven't seen yet. His track record is too wonderful for me to write this off as a stupid casting choice.
Again, it'll be funny if we're all discussing this and Ambrose somehow doesn't end up being Eliza... but I think we need to remember who's at the helm here and give him and his choices credit and faith.
Thank you, friend!
