Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:07pm

Let's think of some performances that would be great, definitive even, if they happened or were to happen, but will absolutely never take place. This can be because the actor is dead, the show is never revived, or the actor in question would never take such a role.

Imagine this- maybe on stage, maybe as a studio recording, but the late Freddie Mercury as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. It would have been phenomenal.

[quizking101]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:12pm

Darren Criss as Andrew Jackson in BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:18pm

Ethel Merman as Christine in Phantom?

[Orangesaretuesdays]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:28pm

Ethel Merman as Usnavi in IN The Heights

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:32pm

^ I saw Ethel as Usnavi and she was fantastic, not as good as her Elphaba though.

[MissAnneThrop]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:39pm

"Curtain UPPPPPP! Light The Lights Up In Washington Heights"

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 7:18pm

You guys joke, but Merman's Blanche DuBois was one of the most thrilling experiences of my entire life.

[Overkill]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 7:57pm

Vincent Price as The Narrator/Mysterious Man in INTO THE WOODS

"Darren Criss as Andrew Jackson in BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON."

I think that falls under the category of Horrible Performances We'll Never, Ever See...

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 8:50pm

Ditto to the Vincent Price thing, and let me also add that he would have been PHENOMENAL as The Narrator in a production/remake of Rocky Horror.

[CandiceElyse]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:15pm

Patti LuPone as Diana in n2n. i think it would be AMAZING.

[Annas_Priest]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:16pm

Agreed 100%, CandiceElyse

[quizking101]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:19pm

Nick Adams in NAKED BOYS SINGING

[chewy5000]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:25pm

Rosie O'Donnell as Effie in Dreamgirls

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:36pm

I hope to God Bernadette Peters in Sweeney Todd doesn't fall into this category.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:39pm

Loretta Swit in GYPSY.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:47pm

I hold to my theory that Mary Louise Parker would be a great Diana.

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 10:07pm

More ones that are unlikely for one reason or another-

Gerard Way as Roger 'Pink' Pinkerton in THE WALL (he'd never take a full-time acting role, and I doubt that Roger Waters is ever actually going to finish adapting the show)

Michael Jackson as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (imagine a Frank that can be strange and campy WITHOUT simply channeling 1940s grande dames)

David Bowie as Sweeney Todd- I know I've just mentioned 3 pop singers, but Bowie is as respected an actor than as a singer (more so since he stopped working on new music), and just IMAGINE that famous voice speaking and singing Sweeney's iconic lines.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 11:00pm

Reba in Whorehouse

Reba in Anything Goes

Caroline O'Connor in Evita

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 11:04pm

Nathan Lane in The Boy From Oz

[Overkill]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 11:07pm

I love the idea of Bowie as Sweeney! I would run to see that. Maybe with Cyndi Lauper as Lovett? :)

Nathan Lane as Zero Mostel in ZERO HOUR.

A young Mark Hamill as Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Don Knotts as The Wizard in Wicked.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 1/5/11 at 11:43pm

Britney Spears in Sweet Charity.

It's not that it can't happen, but I'm curious as to how she would do in the role as well as how critics would view her.

[NotSinceCarrie2]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 12:03am

Jackie Gleason as Pseudolus (Martin Gottfried wrote Forum was announced for him) or as the star of Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis.

[Overkill]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 12:15am

Carol Burnett as Pseudolus!

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 12:20am

Elaine Stritch as Madame Rose

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/6/11 at 12:56am

Natasha Richardson as Desiree in a fully-staged production of A Little Night Music.