Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
#2re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 11:33amI was prepared to totally snark this post, but my goodness Nigel is an adorable little dog.
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#2re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 12:51pmHe is cute - but I think Ashanti should have been cast as Toto instead of Dorothy. Her truly rotten performance in the Muppet version proved that.
Morgaine885
Featured Actor Joined: 4/4/06
#3re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 12:58pm
Was anybody else hoping they'd go with a West Highland White Terrier so they'd have a white dog playing against an all-Black cast?
No?
Just kidding...:)
Too cute!
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#4re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:15pmThis almost makes me want to go.
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#5re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:22pmThe dog is adorable, but I still won't go see this.
#6re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:47pm
What an adorable dog!
I'm so happy they're not casting a person in the role of Toto like they did with the Oz scenes in La Jolla. But I wonder if he'll only appear in the Kansas scenes or perform throughout the whole show.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#7re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 2:42pmThere was a tour in the mid-1980's with Stephanie Mills and Andre DeShields that had a white Toto ( a West Highland Terrier).
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#8re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 3:43pmWell.. that adds up to a whopping three reasons to see The Wiz - Christian White as the Scarecrow, Scenic Design by David Korins and Nigel as Toto!
#9re: Encores! THE WIZ Completes Casting with 'Nigel' as Toto
Posted: 5/12/09 at 6:24pmADORABLE! And what a Cinderella story.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
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