IF Sunset Boulevard should ever be revived, ...

Who'd you want to play Norma Desmond if it ever should (If it ever will I can't imagine it for atleast 10 years if not many more!)

I'd vote for Lea Salonga. Heard her sing "As If We Never Said Goodbye" somewhere (actually I think it was at her Carnagie Hall concert!) and it was great!

Also, my votes would have to go to Sarah Brightman (must be interesting!), Judy Kuhn, and FRANCES RUFFELLE (The semi-original Sydmont when the show wasn't even around haha)!

Updated On: 2/5/08 at 08:42 PM

alice ripley as norma in 10 years

sooner: christine ebersole

Charles Busch = BRILLIANT

Fran & Barry Weissler Present

Whitney Houston

in

Sunset Boulevard

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With her silent screen star kewpie doll looks -- Bernadette Peters. At least she would be believable as a former silent screen star.

Bernadette would be totally miscast as Norma.

I vote for Christine Ebersole.

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re: "Fran & Barry Weissler Present

Whitney Houston

in

Sunset Boulevard"

I threw up and died a little inside when I read this!

Don't ever say such words again Gothampc!!!

Anyway...

Bernadette has the right look, but I don't know about vocally...

Christine Ebersol would totally rock my world as Norma though! But really, if they do revive it, they would probably try to get some Hollywood star again to open the show (with Christine as a replacement later on), and the only person I can think of that could possibly do it is (gasp, am I really going to say it?) Vanessa Williams. Vocally, she's not up to par with some of the songs, but I can see her doing it (I mean, she got to play the Witch in Into the Woods for heaven's sake!)

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Ugly Betty?

I vote for Christine Ebersole. Patti Lupone will be great in Gypsy. I would like to see Christine in something this big.

I like Peters a lot but I agree, I just think her voice is too high. Though she would act it out very funny.

I want to see Patti Labelle do something big too. Has she ever worked on Broadway?

Thank you for that video. I didn't know Christine sang it once... I missed the year that ALW was up for the Kennedy Center Honors.

I love her singing it, and I think she would be great, but on a musical of this caliber, I think that she would have to do a couple more high profile gigs first before producers think about putting her in this show first

P.S., Foster: I said I could see a producer sticking Vanessa Williams up there. I didn't mean that I actually wanted to see her up there as Norma...

Hey! maybe Meryl Streep could use this as a vehicle to do her first Broadway Musical (that is, if she doesn't do the rumored in production limbo for forever movie version). Has she ever been in a Broadway Musical before? I know she's done plays.

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Thanks for the info on Streep ray-andallthatjazz.

And anyway, Streep's gonna be in Mamma Mia! the Movie this summer, so Sunset is not that far a stretch!

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I was gonna say. If Mamma Mia! is Streep worthy then certainly Sunset Boulevard is too.

Ray, what happened to your avatar?

Are you morphing into Izzy's Baby?

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