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.
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.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
Natasha Richardson as Desiree in a fully-staged production of A Little Night Music.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad