Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

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Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 6/3/07 at 12:02am

So, assuming Encores does this again, what would you suggest (excuse any misspellings...to late and tired to look 'em up)?

Kristin Chenoweth-She Loves Me
Bernadette Peters-Hello, Dolly
Audra McDonald-Mame
Reba McEntire -Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Brian Stokes Mitchell-Kismet
Raul Esparza- Secret Garden
Jennifer Holiday-Ain't Misbehavin'
Idina Menzel-Evita
and for fun

Cast of Spring Awakening-Grease

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 6/3/07 at 1:53am

I'd see most of them... but I wouldn't think Idina could do Evita. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of hers, but it's such a demanding role that I'm not sure she could hold it up.

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re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:26pm

I felt like resurrecting this discussion.

If you could pick one show and one star for next summer, what would you choose?

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:30pm

Assassins. A star? Hmm..endless choices.

I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:30pm

Bernadette Peters-Hello, Dolly
Audra McDonald-Mame

I'd rather see Bernadette Peters in Mame, honestly.
Patti LuPone in Call Me Madam

I'm sure I'll think of more

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:35pm

Jennifer Holiday-Ain't Misbehavin'

Oh my God, I would bust a nut.

I would love to see Patti in Call Me Madam, too.

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...

It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:39pm

Bebe Neuwirth in "Bye, Bye, Birdie" (even though she's technically way too old)

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:39pm

liza in mame

well, liza in anything. she cant seem to sustain a long run, but i think she could handle 3 weeks.

or, in a random pipe dream/fantasy of mine: dolly parton in hello, dolly. yes, it's gimicky and she's never done broadway, but i still think she'd be fun and have the personality to pull of the show.

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:40pm

Sutton Foster as Reno in Anything Goes?

Gangway, world, get off of my runway.
- Mama Rose, Gypsy

A bird cage I plan to hang,
I'll get to that someday...
A bird cage for a bird who flew away
Around the world.
- Edie, Grey Gardens

#10

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:40pm

Sutton Foster in "Bells Are Ringing"

Surely, "Young Frankenstein" could spare her for three weeks.

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

#11

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:44pm

Oh my God, I would bust a nut.

Bwahahah!

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

#12

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:47pm

Angela Lansbury in A Little Night Music.

PLEAAAAAASE?

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

#13

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:49pm

I wish for a one-woman "Little Night Music."

Because Angela would be brilliant as well....any of them.

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

#14

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:50pm

That was for you, Ahmelie. :]

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...

It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

#15

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:52pm

Thanks, doll.

I'll sleep with it beside my pillow.

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

#16

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:55pm

You really should. Feel special, because special recognition form me is few and far between.

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...

It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

#17

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 12:11am

i will prob get blasted for this because it doesnt make sense timewise... but heather headley in color purple

It's the music and I'm its hapless victim

#18

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 12:17am

Or she should just be in the Broadway production...

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...

It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

#19

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 12:25am

Adam Pascal as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar

That would make me turn gay..

#20

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 12:42am

Patti LuPone as Elle Woods.

Don't ask me why, but the idea popped into my head and I think it would be the singular most hilarious thing in the world. Imagine that voice singing, "Omigod, omigod you guys, all this week I've had butterflies."

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

#21

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:06am

idina? as evita?
mmmmm no.
maybe julia murney or linda eder.

kiss of the spider woman with victoria clark and patrick wilson.
parade with norbert leo butz and stephanie j. block.

maybe.

#22

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 5:00am

Agree about Bernadette Peters in HELLO, DOLLY and Kristin Chenoweth in SHE LOVES ME. Chenoweth would be a riot during "Ice Cream" and "Where's My Shoe?"
I'd be glad with all these:
Jennifer Holliday and Nikki M. James in CAROLINE OR CHANGE.
Anne Hathaway in FLORA THE RED MENACE.
Donna Murphy in KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN.
Jane Krakowski in MACK & MABEL.
Meryl Streep and Jane Krakowski in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.
Anne Hathaway in SONG & DANCE.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#23

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 5:04am

i still think Helen Mirren would be a good Desiree...

#24

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 9:14am

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC with Victoria Clark, Angela Lansbury and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Patti LuPone, Natascia Diaz and Michael Cerveris.

THE CRADLE WILL ROCK with Audra McDonald.

HOW TO SUCCEED... with Laura Benanti and Raul Esparza.

THE RINK with Patti LuPone and Emily Skinner.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD with Alice Ripley, Melissa Errico and John Lithgow.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#25

re: Ideas for future Encores Summer Stars series

Posted: 8/7/07 at 9:30am

what would be the perfect show for Donna Murphy?

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