Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
#1Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
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.
#2Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:12pmDarren Criss as Andrew Jackson in BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON.
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#2Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:18pmEthel Merman as Christine in Phantom?
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#3Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:28pmEthel Merman as Usnavi in IN The Heights
#4Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:32pm^ I saw Ethel as Usnavi and she was fantastic, not as good as her Elphaba though.
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#5Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 6:39pm"Curtain UPPPPPP! Light The Lights Up In Washington Heights"
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#6Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 7:18pmYou guys joke, but Merman's Blanche DuBois was one of the most thrilling experiences of my entire life.
#7Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
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...
#8Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 8:50pmDitto 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.
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#9Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:15pmPatti LuPone as Diana in n2n. i think it would be AMAZING.
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#11Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:19pmNick Adams in NAKED BOYS SINGING
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#12Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:25pmRosie O'Donnell as Effie in Dreamgirls
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#13Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:36pmI hope to God Bernadette Peters in Sweeney Todd doesn't fall into this category.
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#14Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:39pmLoretta Swit in GYPSY.
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#15Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 9:47pmI hold to my theory that Mary Louise Parker would be a great Diana.
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#16Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
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.
#17Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 11:00pm
Reba in Whorehouse
Reba in Anything Goes
Caroline O'Connor in Evita
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#18Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/5/11 at 11:04pmNathan Lane in The Boy From Oz
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#19Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
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.
#20Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
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.
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#21Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/6/11 at 12:03amJackie Gleason as Pseudolus (Martin Gottfried wrote Forum was announced for him) or as the star of Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis.
#24Great Performances We'll Never, Ever See
Posted: 1/6/11 at 12:56amNatasha Richardson as Desiree in a fully-staged production of A Little Night Music.
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