Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
EddieVarley
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/4/04
#2re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 4:13pmSo there will be a stage version? The Variety article seems to be saying that she will do both versions.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 4:33pmI am perfectly ok with this.
#3re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 4:35pm
I'm expecting a musical witha similar concept to Gypsy. Musical based on legend's biography...anyone else see that? And I love Hathaway...bring it on! 
#4re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 4:35pmAfter seeing Rachel's Getting Married I'm excited to see Hathaway tackle this role dramatically. But, will they be using Hathaway's own singing voice? I just can't see her, or anybody else for that matter, doing justice to the Garland standards.
Choirkid
Swing Joined: 7/8/04
#5re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 4:36pmAlthough I enjoy Anne Hathaway, no one will ever be a more brilliant Garland than Judy Davis AND Tammy Blanchard. How different will this production be from Me And My Shadows?? That was such a brilliant movie.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#6re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 4:48pm
^ Just like no one was ever more/as brilliant than:
Ethel Merman or Angela Lansbury in GYPSY (Patti LuPone)
Idina Menzel in WICKED (Stephanie J. Block)
Zero Mostel in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Topol, Harvey Fierstein)
Joel Grey in CABARET (Alan Cumming)
Ethel Merman in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Reba McEntire)
logan0215
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/05
#7re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 5:29pm
husk,
Elphaba = Character
Judy Garland = Person
That notwithstanding, I am excited for this. I was watching Prada last night and thought that Anne could actually play a very passable Audrey Hepburn.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#8re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 5:36pm
Idina Menzel in WICKED (Stephanie J. Block)
My dog could have done a better job than Idina Menzel. And my dog died before Wicked opened.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#9re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 8:32pm
logan-
My argument was Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard's performances as Judy, versus Judy's performances as Judy.
I actually liked Idina...
dapperchapper
Understudy Joined: 12/14/08
#10re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:59pm
I am very excited for this. I never thought much of her as an actress, until I saw Rachel Getting Married. She was fantastic. I can't wait to see more of what she can do.
also, I hate all the Idina haters of the world. I think she was great in the role, I liked her.
#11re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 8:06amI think Anne is a great choice!
#12re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:53amI want her to play the part. I just don't want to hear her SING.
#13re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:55amtallest Garland ever
Dolly_Levi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/8/04
#14re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 10:58am
Blanchard and Davis were dubbed in "Me & My Shadows" with Garland's own voice. I think that is the issue being discussed here. Annie H could be great - but no one can sing Garland -like Garland.
Even Angela Basset as Tina Turner was dubbed (with the real Tin'a voice) in "What's Love Got To Do with It."
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#15re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:15amI'm with you PJ.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#16re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:23am
Anne has a good voice though, doesn't she? She was in some benefit concert, I thought and most people were surprised by her voice?
Or does she just have the wrong voice for the part?
I'm afraid I don't understand this... they're making a movie AND stage adaptation? Will it be on Broadway? Before or after being in movie theaters? Anyone?
#17re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:12pmisn't she about 5 feet taller than Garland was? lol
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#18re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:24pm
The real Judy Garland was 4'11" 1/2... about 5'2" in heels.
Anne Hathaway is 5'8".
Judy Davis is 5'5".
Updated On: 3/24/09 at 01:24 PM
#19re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:03pm
Plus--this was the bio took the low road, filled with anonymous sources claiming Judy gave blow jobs to mafiosi while singing Over the Rainbow and gargling their semen.
Lovely.
I hope this gets shelved.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#20re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:17pm
The film will be based on this:
#21re: Hathaway Cast as Garland in Stage and Screen Planned 'GET HAPPY'
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:59pmIt was a hateful piece of biography-as-pathography.
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