Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
#0Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:38pmWhat do you think? I passed through MARY REILLY today on HBO and this thought revisited me again. I've thought this probably since the Fall of 2003. I think she'd be great. Also, I don't think she would snub the role just because it's not a lead. I know she was Norma D., but I think she'd be fantastic and somewhat chilling as Morrible. It would be a completely different dimension. Just a thought.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#1re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:39pmShe'd be great but I highly doubt it will ever happen.
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#2re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:39pm
no.
though the role is kind of like her stepford wives one.
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#3re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:39pmShe did Cruela really well, and she is evil, sooooooo...I could see that.
#4re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:47pmIt's not a large enough role. I doubt she would take it.
shipoopi913
Swing Joined: 12/16/05
#6re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/16/05 at 11:17pm
no way i was watching that too
haha
#7re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/16/05 at 11:20pmTotally not a large enough role. Glenn Close as a replacement in a small supporting role? Highly doubtful. Plus... I just don't see her as Morrible, anyway.
#9re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/17/05 at 1:02amI don't think so.
defying_gravity2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#10re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/17/05 at 1:08amShe'd be great, but the role is to small. Now Bea Arthur, that would be amazing.Haha.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:54amShe'd be wonderful but the role is too small. She can do the movie if it's ever made! I love the woman. I feel she can do pretty much anything. By the way does anyone know if the SUNSET BOULEVARD film is going to happen? And who is going to play opposite Ms. Close? Hugh Jackman or Ewan McGregor?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:58amHow about Holland Taylor as Madame Morrible? She's on TWO AND A HALF MEN right now but maybe on the hiatus. She's be terrific.
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#13re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:03amThe day that Glenn Close plays Morrible will be the day that Britney Spears comes to Broadway, he said sarcastically.
wei2
Swing Joined: 11/26/05
#14re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:06am
i don't think she'd ever do a replacement, especially after someone as awful as rue.
personally, i think it'd be hilarious and perfect for a guy in drag to do. the character is so over the top performance-wise and the look is something like a elizabethan dame edna :)
fyi, i believe i read on playbill.com a few months back that the sunset movie was indeed going to star ms. close and mr. macgregor
#15re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:20amI think she would be good, but would never do it. I think Doris Roberts would be good as Morrible, too. I know there was some talk about her moving into some other Broadway show (I think CHIGACO as Mama Morton). She can play that evil with a venir of nice SO well.
#16re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:32amDoris was rumored to be going into Thoroughly Modern Millie, not Chicago.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#17re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:35amWhy are there always these speculation threads about stuff? I don't get the point.
#18re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:14amThanks, adamgreer. I knew Chicago sounded wrong, but I couldn't think of what else she would have gone into. You're right about Millie.
Flahooley
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/05
#19re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 1:39pmI'm not a Glenn Close fan, but should a film version of the show ever be made. She might be a good choice.
zelda
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/05
#20re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 2:08pm
that thought thats been visitng..needs to return to whence it came.
glenn close ewwwwww
#21re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 2:21pmBTW, Glenn was brilliant as Cruella de Vil.
#22re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:22pm
I have no idea why I think it's so important to finally have another rich, complex interpretation of Morrible, but nonetheless, I persist.
What do you think of Estelle Parsons? I think she would do it. She's not a complete blockbuster, widely known broadway star, but she would "do it" for me. I think she'd take a replacement role. She actually has quite a low register instead of that fake voice she did on ROSEANNE. I think she'd be fantastic at interpretting "the switch" Morrible makes.
#23re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 10:02amI love the idea of Glenn Close as Madame Morrible.
#24re: Glenn Close as Madame Morrible?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:13amElphabuff -- I would have agreed about Estelle Parsons about a year ago. However, after seeing her in "Harold and Maude" at Papermill, I no longer think she should have anything to do with Musical Theatre. She was horrid and boring in that role and her singing was pitiful. The material was a mess, but more importantly she did nothing with the material.
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