Fantasy Casting

[jmnpublications]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 3:43pm

Okay, none of us are shy about naming our favorite actors and actresses on this board. So let's play casting director and put them in the roles we would love to see them play. I'll start.

Rachel York is my favorite musical star and dramatic actress. I think she would be great in the following:

Evita
My Fair Lady
Funny Girl
Mack and Mabel
Wicked (as Elphaba)
A Chorus Line (as Cassie or Sheila)
On the Twentieth Century
Into the Woods (she is so versatile that I could see her as either Cinderella, the Baker's Wife, or the Witch)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Crimes of the Heart (as Meg)
Steel Magnolias
Bus Stop
Picnic

I think if there were ever a musical version of "Moonstruck" she would be great in that, too. Can you imagine her doing a song called, "Snap Out of It!" Too funny. And I sincerely hope that the musical "Me and Miss Monroe" makes it to Broadway with her playing Marilyn. The one demo song I have heard her sing, "When the Camera Isn't There," is terrific. I can't wait till the rest of the demo CD makes it to BWW.com Radio. Her interpretation of Marilyn Monroe is uncanny. It's sad, powerful, penetrating, and quite haunting.

Now it's your turn.

lc

Posted: 8/16/04 at 3:53pm

hmm...let's see. umm kristin chenoweth
chicago-roxie
thoroughly modern millie-miss dorothy
this could sound kinda weird but...tracy in hairspray
phantom of the opera-christine
guys and dolls- miss adelaide or sarah brown
some like it hot- sugar

idina menzel
chicago-velma kelley

and maybe john goodman as edna in hairspray
and angela christian as glinda

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 3:59pm

Marc Shaiman! Marc Shaiman! Did you hear that????? Kristin Chenoweth as Tracy Turnblad!!!! I can't believe it took somebody this long to suggest it!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:01pm

*stares in horror*

[ponine24601]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:03pm

cheno was christine in poto.

ok let's see: Eden Espinosa

-Maureen-RENT
-Amneris-AIDA
-Elphaba-Wicked (i know she was the stand-by, but she needs this role!)
- Millie-TMM

Jennifer Gambatese

-Roxie-Chicago
-Sheila-A Chorus Line
-Belle-BATB

ok now actors

Adam Pascal

-this man can do any role and i'll be happy!

[jmnpublications]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:06pm

Ooh, I forgot one for Rachel York. Tracy Lord in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. In fact, I think she would be great in remakes of many of the films that Katharine Hepburn did - DESK SET, BRINGING UP BABY, ADAM'S RIB, WOMAN OF THE YEAR, PAT AND MIKE. She'd need the right co-star to get the chemistry sparking, but I could see George Clooney measuring up to the challenge. They'd be great together in a remake of TO CATCH A THIEF, too. Today's Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Yum.

lc

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:06pm

Gregg Edelman as Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz. *snerk*

No, actually, I kind of would like to see if Paul McCrane (ER, Fame) could play John Adams in 1776. I know he certainly doesn't look like John Adams, but once he's got hair maybe it'd work. I don't know. He can sing, though. Updated On: 8/16/04 at 04:06 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:06pm

Just 'cause I spent all my time waiting for the Avenue Q lottery staring at the BFO marquee across the street-

Hugh Jackman as Bobby in Company.

I think I've said it before, but I've been a bit fixated on that since he turned down the part for the Kennedy Center production. He's just the right age now, too.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:08pm

Let's face it, Plum, Hugh Jackman as anyone works.

[Mattio98]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:12pm

Julia Murney as...

Velma in Chicago
Elphaba in Wicked
Amneris in Aida
Cathy in The Last 5 Years

Bernadette Peters as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd

John Tartaglia as Pippin

Stephanie Block as...

Elphaba in Wicked
Fanny Brice in Funny Girl
The Witch in Into the Woods

[jmnpublications]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:20pm

Mattio, I love the idea of Bernadette Peters as Mrs. Lovett!

lc

[Mattio98]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:22pm

Hopefully, Sam Mendes scheduled to direct Sweeney movie + Sam and Bernadette worked together on Gypsy=Bernadette as Mrs. Lovett

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:26pm

I know there are talks of it, but I would really love to see Nathan and Matthew star in "The Odd Couple." Or even Nathan and Roger - they work so well together!

Heck, Nathan and Roger in *anything* would make me happy - they could just dance around the stage for an hour and a half and I'd pay!

~Jessica

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:31pm

Julia Murney in anything would just be wonderful.

[jmnpublications]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:33pm

Another ODD COUPLE pairing that could be a riot would be Peter Scolari and Bronson Pinchot. After seeing them in SLY FOX and then catching their post-show stage door antics in Boston, I think they would be amazing together. I'd have Scolari play Felix and Pinchot play Oscar.

lc

[aspiringguy715]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:33pm

Michael Arden in a billion different things.

I see Cheno as June in "GYPSY"

[Plum]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:46pm

Chenoweth is just right for June, but she's getting too old for it. A lot of great musical theater stars, as a recent review of The Frogs said, made a living and became legends playing the same character in different clothes. But I think Chenoweth needs to vary her clothes a little more- her solo album proves she can do it.

Oh, and Bernadette Peters as Mrs. Lovett? Sheer brilliance. Add in Shuler Hensley as Sweeney Todd and I'm a happy girl. Updated On: 8/16/04 at 04:46 PM

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:48pm

Sutton Foster as Elphaba
Jennifer Holliday as Elphaba(yeah she's a little old but that would be somthing)
Stephanie Block as Elphaba
Hugh Jackman as Billy Flynn
Bebe Neuworth as Ruth Sherwood
Jennifer Hudson (american idol)as:
joanne (rent)
seasons of love soloist (rent)
Mama Morton
Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Glinda
Laura Bell Bundy as whatever the hell she wants

[aspiringguy715]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:48pm

I feel that Cheno will always be cast in the squeaky supporting goofy roles, who knows...maybe she'll get a serious ingenue someday?

[TheAudrey3]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:51pm

Kerry Butler as Glinda
Sutton Foster as Elphaba
Gavin Creel as Link Larkin or Fiyero
Cheno as Miss Dorothy

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:54pm

no cheno was christine in PHANTOM, the maury yeston version of phantom of the opera.

[Derek2]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 4:57pm

Harriet Harris - The Wicked Witch (The Wizard of Oz)

Kerry Butler - Miss Adelaide (Guys & Dolls...I can just hear her singing her Adelaide's Lament)

Jessica Grove - Sarah Brown (Guys and Dolls)

Jason Alexander - Nathan Detroit (Guys and Dolls)

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 5:25pm

I agree with John Goodman as Edna, i can see it.

[PJ]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 5:29pm

Idina and Sutton must, MUST play Mama Rose someday!

I'd also, for some reason, like to see Cheno in a revival of "Call me Madam." I think she'd make a good Dolly Levi in "Helly, Dolly!" as well. They'd have to fix the score as it was written for Carol Channing's near-baritenor voice, haha.

[Derek2]

Posted: 8/16/04 at 5:31pm

Yes! ^ Bebe Neuwirth would make a great Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town. Someone should suggest that to the producers! I hope Brooke (not saying I dont like her, but not in this role)def. takes her place. Or even after Brooke leaves. Bebe even sounds somewhat like Donna Murphy and she's a great dancer