#151
Posted: 7/16/17 at 3:30pm
Eliza has been cast and I think they'll be making the announcement within the next week or so. Im thrilled with it, by the way.
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#152
Posted: 7/16/17 at 3:32pm
How positive are you, Jordan? I've reputable sources who say Eliza callbacks are happening this week.
#153
Posted: 7/16/17 at 3:41pm
That's wonderful, Jordan. Maybe you could give us all a hint, ChildrenOfEarth?
#154
Posted: 7/16/17 at 3:42pm
Jordan Catalano said: "Eliza has been cast and I think they'll be making the announcement within the next week or so. Im thrilled with it, by the way.
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Is it a name that theatre fans know or an "unknown?"
#155
Posted: 7/16/17 at 3:51pm
GeorgeandDot said: "God, I really hope they don't go with Sierra. Her voice is stunning, but her acting is completely uninteresting. It works for roles like Christine, but Eliza needs charisma. She's not much of an actress. Also, yeah, Benanti and Sierra look the same age, but Benanti is more suited for the role.
"I agree with you 100% G&D!!! Bart will make the right choice and it won't be Sierra! LAURA BENANTI!
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#156
Posted: 7/16/17 at 4:33pm
From that "they are likely waiting for this person's current project to "finish" before announcing anything" clue, my two top choices would be Laura Osnes or Betsy Wolfe. I also think it would be pretty extraordinary to see Betsy Wolfe get it and potentially be nominated against frozen.
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#158
Posted: 7/16/17 at 4:51pm
Jordan Catalano said: "Eliza has been cast and I think they'll be making the announcement within the next week or so. Im thrilled with it, by the way.
So am I!
#159
Posted: 7/16/17 at 5:09pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "How positive are you, Jordan? I've reputable sources who say Eliza callbacks are happening this week."
They're probably doing callbacks for the understudy.
#160
Posted: 7/16/17 at 5:32pm
Call_me_jorge said: "From that "they are likely waiting for this person's current project to "finish" before announcing anything" clue, my two top choices would be Laura Osnes or Betsy Wolfe."
It could also be Kara Lindsay or Emily Padgett.
#161
Posted: 7/16/17 at 5:55pm
I don't think it's going to be her, but technically if they're waiting for her to finish her project ("Midsummer" ends in August) and she's been mentioned in the thread before, could be Annaleigh Ashford. Don't think it will be, but, it matches the clues, too.
They/them.
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#162
Posted: 7/16/17 at 10:48pm
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Call_me_jorge said: "From that "they are likely waiting for this person's current project to "finish" before announcing anything" clue, my two top choices would be Laura Osnes or Betsy Wolfe."
It could also be Kara Lindsay or Emily Padgett.
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#163
Posted: 7/16/17 at 10:50pm
Betsy Wolfe could be pretty exciting.
#164
Posted: 7/16/17 at 11:33pm
So I guess we can assume that Higgins has been cast. Any clues there?
#165
Posted: 7/16/17 at 11:36pm
I am really hoping that this is the project that they are potentially waiting to finish before making the announcement:
http://www.dallastheatercenter.org/responsive/show_details2.php?sid=118&m=mob
#166
Posted: 7/17/17 at 1:08am
SDV said: "
"Really? Because there were so many black cockneys in Edwardian England?"
And there were so many black members of the aristocracy in 19th century Russia.
Your Denee Benton reference in this thread is particularly bewildering considering the role for which she was Tony nominated.
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I didn't refer to Miss Benton. I haven't seen COMET, but in the scenes I've seen, the treatment is only marginally representational anyway, so why not bring diversity to the casting? I don't agree it necessarily makes the play more interesting, but I don't see why it should make it less.
A black Eliza Doolittle in MFL is another matter, as the rest of my post suggested. Hungarian? I don't think so. And Higgins boast that he could pass off a black cockney as an English lady is simply ridiculous in the period. Such casting is "more interesting" only if you are trying to destroy the narrative.
Color-blind casting is interesting in many shows. But the idea that shows MUST be cast without regard to color is just a millennial fad. (And if anybody looked at the numbers in that recent survey of diversity in American theater, it isn't ON stage where African Americans are underrepresented relative to their numbers in the general population. They are underpaid relative to whites, which is unconscionable. And blacks are underrepresented in theater management, which is something we should work to correct; but this has nothing to do with casting Eliza.)
#167
Posted: 7/17/17 at 9:55am
It is not Kara, Betsy, Emily, Annaleigh, Sierra or Laura (Osnes).
#170
Posted: 7/17/17 at 10:03am
Theatre star or someone from movies/tv?
#173
Posted: 7/17/17 at 10:11am
Yep! And Mark Hamill is going to be Higgins!
#174
Posted: 7/17/17 at 10:13am
Jordan - I wonder if we heard the same person. Like I said, mine could be completely wrong. ??
