#126
Posted: 3/13/19 at 2:41pm
TheSassySam said: "My vote is for Ruthie Ann Miles!"
THIS!
Hugh Jackman in The Music Man — Page 6
#127
Posted: 3/13/19 at 2:44pm
theaterlyfe19 said: "Am I the only one who just...doesn’t...want a revival?
“We want original works!!!”
“Yay Music Man revival!!!”
Make up your mind!"
I don't see how those are particularly in conflict.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#128
Posted: 3/13/19 at 2:55pm
I think the general want is better original work and better revivals. Not all original work, all the time. A revival as good as, say, “Hello, Dolly!” is worth a theater being dark to a potential incoming new work. It puts great talent to work and fills the pockets of producers (granted, not *every* producer) who can then take risks on producing other, less obviously marketable properties.
#129
Posted: 3/13/19 at 3:06pm
They are both great singers but neither has the voice to sing that score.
#130
Posted: 3/13/19 at 3:20pm
My money is on it being Kristin Chenoweth.
#131
Posted: 3/13/19 at 3:23pm
I saw the recent revival on tour and thought the production value was gorgeous even for a tour. Hopefully this will be something interesting. Not much you can do with it that would be different.
#133
Posted: 3/13/19 at 4:11pm
To jump off ColorTheHours048's point, I think what most people want is a range of work. Nobody wants a Broadway filled with only play revivals, or only new indie musicals, or only British drama –– we'd all get sick of it. That's the beauty of theatre: You can have Hadestown and Tootsie and Glenda Jackson's King Lear and Kiss Me Kate and What The Constitution Means To Me all playing at the same time!
#134
Posted: 3/13/19 at 4:18pm
Kristin 4' 11"
Hugh 6'2"
Do the math. She can't spend the whole show on that footbridge,
#135
Posted: 3/13/19 at 4:27pm
Maybe she’ll be wheeled around on a box
(And the correct English is MATHS... plural)
(And the correct English is MATHS... plural)
#136
Posted: 3/13/19 at 4:39pm
Is it too early to be dream-casting the understudies? Because Nikki Renee Daniels would be a perfect Marian understudy.
https://twitter.com/nikkireneesings/status/1105885860677992450
#137
Posted: 3/13/19 at 4:44pm
^ when you wonder if someone's blocked you
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#138
Posted: 3/13/19 at 4:58pm
Do all the maths.
She could stand on a pile of books.
#139
Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:16pm
Awww bummer, after seeing Seth Rudetsky's video of Patti LuPone singing "Trouble", I've been hoping for a gender bent Music Man starring Patti LuPone as Harold Hill and Norm Lewis as Marian
#140
Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:17pm
LOL. I almost just posted the same thing. I don't how they could manage that.
#141
Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:20pm
f13overture said: "Awww bummer, after seeing Seth Rudetsky's video of Patti LuPone singing "Trouble", I've been hoping for a gender bent Music Man starring Patti LuPone as Harold Hill and Norm Lewis as Marian"
The erasure of the trail-blazing work of Bobbie Adler as Professor Carole Hill in "The Music Person!" 
#142
Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:28pm
I understood that Laura Osnes was set as Marian. Isnt that happening? It's fine with me...I think she would be wonderful and would be my first choice.
#143
Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:31pm
Michael19 said: "I understood that Laura Osnes was set as Marian. Isnt that happening? It's fine with me...I think she would be wonderful and would be my first choice."
You "understood" that she was set? How so? From a message board?
#144
Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:35pm
What I really want to know is which actresses will play those wonderful "Pick a Little" ladies (Rosie O'Donnell is "a given," of course).
#145
Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:49pm
Keala Settle would be perfect for a Pick a Little lady, but I'm sure it's far too small a role for her. Would be cool to reunite them after TGS.
#146
Posted: 3/13/19 at 6:52pm
Gender swap...Zac Efron as Marian!
I’m sure Jackman would love that..
I’m sure Jackman would love that..
#147
Posted: 3/13/19 at 6:57pm
HereAndThere2 said: "What I really want to know is which actresses will play those wonderful "Pick a Little" ladies (Rosie O'Donnell is "a given," of course)."
Rosie played Mrs. Paroo @ the KC, Marian's and Winthrop's mother, not Mrs. Shinn, the mayor's wife, so her character is not a 'Pick a Little' lady. Which begs the question, who will play Mrs. Shinn? Can we clone Hermione Gingold please? Is there any of her DNA frozen in amber somewhere?
Updated On: 3/13/19 at 06:57 PM
#148
Posted: 3/13/19 at 7:15pm
^^^^^^^^^
To be clear, I suggested Rosie for one of the "Pick a Little" ladies. I said nothing about her performing as Mrs Paroo, either in the past or for this production.
#149
Posted: 3/13/19 at 7:20pm
disneybroadwayfan22 said: "Wish it was the KC production, but Hugh will be perfect! I would die of happiness if it's Osnes!"
Yea, It's NOT Laura...so happy now! Sutton Foster in the rumor around town.
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#150
Posted: 3/13/19 at 7:49pm
She probably wouldn’t do it, but can you imagine the meal Kristine Nielsen would make out of all the Baaaaaalzac’s?
