Follies Movie Dream Cast- Page 2

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 11:42am

Teresa Stratas? THAT'S a Follies I would like to see!



Hi PJ, who would you love to see in these roles?

I'm afraid all my choices are dead.

Updated On: 8/7/14 at 11:42 AM

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 11:43am

Still, PJ, it's a dream cast. In the 3-D IMAX of your mind, who do you see?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 11:49am

Somehow I figured you would like that choice, PalJoey. Could you imagine the publicity it would generate in the opera world alone if they somehow managed to lure her out of retirement?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 12:14pm

In the 3-D IMAX of your mind, who do you see?


Hit it, baby...

Gene Kelly as Ben

Dolores Gray as Phyllis

Judy Garland as Sally

Donald O'Connor as Buddy

Joan Crawford as Carlotta

Bette Davis as Hattie

Vivian Vance as Stella

Marge and Gower Champion as the Whitmans

Jeanette MacDonald as Heidi

and Elizabeth Taylor as Solange LaFitte



Updated On: 8/7/14 at 12:14 PM

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 12:25pm

^Great dream cast PJ, can you imagine the fighting between Joan and Bette during filming? Plus I agree that Judy Garland would've not only be a great Sally, she would've been even more legendary than she was already.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 12:29pm

I think Renee Fleming would be a fabulous Heidi. I also think Bette Midler would make a hilarious Stella Deems - her "Who's That Woman" would be killer!

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 12:35pm

Renee Fleming is about 25 years too young for Heidi.

She could play Sally, though.

Updated On: 8/7/14 at 12:35 PM

[LucyEth]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 12:42pm

I always got the impression that Carlotta was a headliner when Phyllis & Sally were in the chorus, so assumed she was older. (Hence the Shirley MacLaine suggestion.) But the truth is, now that you mention it, Alexis Smith, Dorothy Collins & Yvonne DeCarlo were contemporaries. Perhaps I'm wrong in thinking that Carlotta was NOT in the chorus with them; what does the script say? Also, if memory serves, don't Ben and Carlotta attempt sex sometime during the evening? Not sure I'd want to have the image in my head of Shirley MacLaine doing it with...well, anybody, really. Judi Dench too old?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 12:54pm

Perhaps I'm wrong in thinking that Carlotta was NOT in the chorus with them; what does the script say?

In the lead-in to "I'm Still Here" Carlotta says, "I had a Follies number once--a solo. The cut the damn thing in Philadelphia"...implying that she was never given another solo again.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:02pm

In the original production she dances behind Stella in Who's That Woman. Carlotta was a chorus girl, despite the proliferation of productions with 80 year old Carlottas.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:13pm

What about Michael Keaton as Buddy? He had the manic comedic skills in Branagh's "Much Ado", and he can definitely show the other sides of Buddy.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:17pm

Streep is way too old.

Thompson and Pfeiffer are borderline.

I think Zeta Jones and Zellwager, is a capital idea. They could sell it as a Chicago reunion. Maybe get John Travolta as Buddy, if he can stop chasing dudes in saunas long enough.

The thing is, normally I would say a Follies movie could never happen. But you've got some seriously powerful Broadway fans (Harvey Weinstein, Scott Rudin) who are producers, so it might happen some day.

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:20pm

Keep Zellweger away from this. I HATED her in Chicago and she isn't a Sally. (I want a soprano-is that too much to ask for?)

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:30pm

I want a soprano-is that too much to ask for?

According to the role of Claudia in the movie version of Nine, perhaps it is.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:30pm

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a good movie star Sally. I just can't imagine who could do it.

If you wanna rake in some bucks get Jen Aniston as Sally and Angie Jolie as Phyllis.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:31pm

After what Zeta Jones did to "Send in the Clowns" on the Tony Awards, I thought she was banned from ever appearing in a Sondheim show again.

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:32pm

Please don't put Angie and Jen Aniston in this.

I think getting A-listers for Phyllis (in a couple of years, Zeta-Jones would be really amazing), the two male characters and then someone APPROPRIATE as Sally could work.

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:33pm

If we're waiting a few years, then Toni Collette should play Phyllis.

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:36pm

I think Jones is better for the role. She's also a much bigger name.

[LucyEth]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 1:44pm

I know it's the ultimate sacrilege, but one of the only ways I could see a "Follies" film working is if they fudged the time period and made it a reunion of Vegas showgirls. Did a Rat Pack/"Mad Men" kind of thing. You'd lose a lot and perhaps the whole point of the piece would be sacrificed, but face it, a film set in the 1970s looking back fondly on the Ziegfeld Follies just would not resonate for modern film audiences.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 2:17pm

Sally- Judy Collins - or, because Collins may be a little too old for the other three leads I have in mind, I'd happily "settle" for Karen Allen
Phyllis- Goldie Hawn
Ben- Victor Garber
Buddy- Robin Williams
Carlotta- Ann-Margret
Stella- Patti Labelle
Hattie- Barbara Harris
Salonge- Sonia Braga
The Whitmans- Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara
Heidi- Leontyne Price
Weismann- Alan Arkin
Roscoe - Paul Sorvino





Updated On: 8/7/14 at 02:17 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 2:20pm

"but face it, a film set in the 1970s looking back fondly on the Ziegfeld Follies just would not resonate for modern film audiences."

But movies aren't huge moneymakers anyway. No matter how much they "Meryl Streep" Into The Woods, it will never be a blockbuster. People who enjoy musicals and mothers with children will go to see it.

You could cast Lea Michele and Chris Colfer as Sally and Phyllis and it wouldn't be a blockbuster.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 2:26pm

PJ, with that cast, would it be a Follies reunion? Or the MGM-ish/esque reunion that never got filmed but apparently became a screenplay at one point?

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 2:45pm

^There was a time when Sondheim and Prince proposed a movie adaptation in 1972 involving former MGM stars to be the all star cast and the story taking place in a movie studio about to be torn down instead of a theater.

Updated On: 8/7/14 at 02:45 PM

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 3:02pm

I can see Gwyneth Paltrow as Phyllis and Winona Ryder as Sally.