HAIRSPRAY is next NBC Musical... — Page 5

Thank you 'best' for replying to my post and suppose I just accept that Edna is to be played by a man[as written] like an English panto Dame and that each man who plays the part brings whatever manly characteristic he has to reveal a 'different' Edna.

SL....x

PS---Who played the Mother in Another Gay Movie--now SHE is the Mother of all Ednas !!

Matt Bomer as Corny Collins

Melissa Benoit as Penny

JOSH Gad as Edna

Ryann Redmond as Tracy. She played Bridget in Bring It On on Broadway. She can sing and dance. 

There really is no point in doing this without Harvey. 

The commercial breaks are how NBC is able to do these regularly, so I doubt they'll be doing less of them. While having so many breaks obviously isn't ideal, a little Broadway is better than none!

If you compare all three broadcasts, the most limited interruption was for PETER PAN. Why is that? Because Walmart was the lead sponsor. They enabled nbc to do limited commercial interruption, although every interruption included poor Tinkerbell with Melissa Joan Hart and her children. So random. 

Actually. They were the lead sponsor for SOUND OF MUSIC, too. There were more commercials this year for THE WIZ, though, because they had no lead sponsor enabling nbc to feature limited commercial interruption. Oh well. 

Also Harvey tweeted about being cast as Edna for this production about a few hours ago, it seems he would do it if they asked (and they should).

Very happy with this choice, how about Angela Bassett or Stephanie Mills for Mabel? :)

Jane Seymour as Velma?

I am glad we are getting this because I feel they butchered the show with the film version. Can't wait to hear Big Doll house and Mama I'm a big girl now. 

Updated On: 1/13/16 at 05:45 PM

The producers have said NEVER to the subject of a live audience.  http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/wiz-producers-how-oscars-turned-845893

Gwyneth Paltrow as Velma (not even a big fan of hers, but can see her in the part)

I guess I am a rare naysayer.  The movie was only made 7 - 8 years ago, for crying out loud.  Couldn't they wait another 10 years.  Why can't they be a little more risky. I am not referring to edgy, more to something that people may not be familiar with, but would meet the bill.  Give it some big stars to compensate for the less immediately familiar.  How about Pajama Game, for example; or Boy From Oz (if...); or a revised Bells Are Ringing, with some young hotties who can do comedy.  Etc.

All I want for this is Harvey and a live studio audience.

"With all due respect, John Waters wrote Edna Turnblad as a woman and Divine chose to play her that way.  It was never played as a "man in drag" which Divine never was - every female role he ever played was played as a real woman.  This idea was honored in the Broadway adaptation and every actor who has played Edna played her as a woman.  Never as a drag act."

I disagree, I think Harvey played it like a man in a frock and it was hilarious. Whereas John Travolta played it as a woman, and it was flat, with all the comedy missing. It is far funnier seeing a man, not attempting to be a convincing woman.

It worked like a charm with Harvey Fierstein playing a woman in the stage musical.  It would be lovely to have that performance captured in a TV version.