Great shows...with terrible casts... — Page 2

Drood with the tragic performances of Loretta S*it and Donna Murphy who was AWFUL as Drood. She refused to hit the $ note at the end of Writing on the Wall the 3 times I saw it!!!!

Yes Millie, Ms. Pescow has had quite an illustrius career outside of TV. She can "sing" and has done a lot of musical theater here on the west coast. Too bad she isn't suited for it.

Roundabout FOLLIES revival is the one that immediately comes to mind.

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Funny Girl with Deborah Gibson: Rumor is the cast used to refer to the show as GIRL. Get it?

How about the Les Miz revival?

(I don't mean everyone. Just a select few.)

Well, what makes a few? One individual from the opening cast and perhaps two replacements?

Or do you really feel that although not everyone is terrible, the cast as a whole is terrible?

I think the cast, considering individual leads as well as ensemble members, and certainly as a whole, is remarkably talented and entertaining.


p.s Alex is fabulous and Lea is fabulous. No matter who or what comprises the rest of the production, each of them alone is worth the cost of the entertainment.

p.s Alex is fabulous and Lea is fabulous. No matter who or what comprises the rest of the production, each of them alone is worth the cost of the entertainment.

*cough* well, I was very ENTERTAINED by Alex, but perhaps not in the way he nor TPTB intended.

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1990's Company was definatly miscast with such excellence i almost died listening to their recording. Some of those people should apologize for some of those recordings COUGHboydCOUGHgainesCOUGH

Jekyll and Hyde a good show? I think you'd find very few people to say that.

As for the Les Mis revival... the original cast of it was pretty awful, especially Daphne Rubin-Vega (she should just stick to RENT and straight plays). For the few weeks when Lea Salonga, Aaron Lazar, Jenny Galloway and Celia Keenan-Bolger were in the cast together I was able to look past Alex's odd performance, Norm's unconfident and bland portrayal of Javert and Ali Ewoldt's shrill voice, but after the four original principles left in April, the show went downhill again. The only thing really spectacular about the revival was that most of the actors read the original novel and occasionally, it showed.

As for the Into the Woods revival, the cast was awful except for Laura Benanti. Ben Wright's voice makes me want to detach my ears.

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istillbelieve- Ben Wright was in the OBC of Into the Woods. Not the revival.

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