Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Topline "Cat" at Broadhurst- Page 2
Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Topline "Cat" at Broadhurst
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#25re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:48pmActually Howard is 38.
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#26re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:52pm
um...she's not even a great film actor
THANK YOU, SIR!
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#27re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:07pmJames Earl Jones as Big Daddy is absolutely outstanding.
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#28re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:30pm
Wow. I stand corrected. I always assumed he was younger. Now I must self-lecture.
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Sandy in Sable
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#29re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:32pm
I read in a Backstage article that JEJ once brought down the house with a scene he did as Big Daddy for the nontraditional casting project. I can hardly wait for this production, and I only hope that Charles Turner won't be going on for JEJ the night I go. 
j/k love ya Charles
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#30re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:49pm
"Somehow I can't understand how an African American cast would bring any new textures to a play that is set on a Southern plantation and has servants called "Lacy" and "Sooky"."
o i don't know.....maybe because there WERE Southern black PROMINENT families who had housestaff who happened to be black in the time period of the play. Lynn Whitfield comes from a long line of Southern black aristocracy... I guess it's sooooo far off to believe that not all black people come from the ghetto.
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broadwayman17
Broadway Star Joined: 10/27/07
#31re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:41pmGreat casting choices. Can't wait till it starts previews.
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being.jeremiah
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#32re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 11:26pm
I hope this production pushes through seamlessly!
Though, it keeps me worrying, who'll be the first one to drop out due to "scheduling conflicts" or something like it?
#33re: Howard, Rose, Jones, Rashad Join 'Cat' at Broadhurst
Posted: 12/11/07 at 11:35pm
Dang! Any chance that Debbie Allen will do some choreography? Perhaps a tap dance to the Saving Private Ryan theme again?
I am looking forward to this, though. I believe groups sale are going into June, but Howard is only confirmed until April 13.
Rashad will of course be luminous.
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