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Louise and Herbie are easy to cast (especially Herbie). There are TONS of people who could do those roles and help the box office.

Can Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand sing? I want to see one of them do it. I like the Melissa McCarthy idea, and Nicole Kidman & Emma Thompson could be interesting (though neither is a Merman type).

Toni Collette, Catherine Zeta Jones, and Megan Mullally are not bankable stars.

Hailee Steinfeld as Louise.

Sophia Vergara as Rose.

Gypsy is an old fashioned book musical, part truth, and the only colour and movement comes when the kids do their bit and that has to look very amateurish. Can't do the clever editing like Chicago--Gypsy is a journey for each character when we meet them.

Be interesting to tell a little back story for Mamma to see her trying and failing. Don't know but was she successful on stage as? and her 2 girls came along and prevented her being a 'big star'?

The rest is pretty drab looking because of the period. 'Gimmick' should stop the film! and so should 'the strip'. Lots of dancing spunks to choose for Tulsa.

Roses' turn is not a Dream Girls with a great build up, more a break down.

The only way money is coming in for a film of this very stage piece would be on the back of a movie star, and even Ms Streep has been in some clunkers.

Other than 'made for television', again, can't think of any movie star that COULD do it.

Just a pot-pourrie of rant.

Wake me up when something actually happens. Six years of Streisand press agent BS wasn't enough for you? Now THIS will go on until suddenly, magically - someone else will announce that THEY'RE doing it.

I'm way more excited about this than I was when way too old Barbra Streisand was attached. I think Amy Sherman-Palladino will do this material justice. I do hope her husband is involved as well because I think his directorial work for Mrs. Maisel has been absolutely wonderful.

I think Hailee Steinfeld would actually be a great choice for Louise. We know she can "dress down" and look like someone who would be passed over as evidence in a few of her film roles like Edge of Seventeen but she also know she can glam it up as in her music videos. As for June, I want someone who we would believe can be a star. I really do trust Sherman-Palladino with this project given her track record and her love of music that comes through in her shows.

Updated On: 2/7/19 at 09:39 AM

Meryl for Rose, Anne Hathaway for Louise, Stanley Tucci for Herbie, Reese Witherspoon for June

It's interesting that the first thing people come up with in relation to female leads is age.

Niles Silvers said: "It's interesting that the first thing people come up with in relation to female leads is age."

I think we're harping because on stage Rose has always been played by aging battleaxes. But Rose Hovick was a young woman when she began her journey and was not yet 38 years old when June elopes with Tulsa (she actually married Herbie when she was 26). So really Anne Hathaway is much closer to Rose's age than Louise.

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Can Julianne Moore sing? Age up Kate Winslet a bit?"

Yes to both of these!

People age out of roles, regardless of their gender identity. It happens. You move on.

Mike Nichols tried to get a Gypsy adaptation off the ground back in the early millennium, after Angels in America. Oddly enough, he was pitching it with Meryl in mind. That floundered, of course. I cannot remember if it was prior to the Nichols/Streep project or after, but Catherine Zeta-Jones was considered by some production team after winning her Oscar for Chicago. Arthur Laurents quickly vetoed the idea, saying Rose cannot be played by a second banana. (He would have said the same thing about Glenn Close, if we're being honest.)