If Hello Dolly could extend it's run? — Page 3

darquegk said: "What about Alison Janney? I can't think of anyone more ideal than her.



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If ever an actress was a Mame rather than a Dolly, it is Alison Janney.

GavestonPS said: "darquegk said: "What about Alison Janney? I can't think of anyone more ideal than her.



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If ever an actress was a Mame rather than a Dolly, it is Alison Janney.



Now I want productions of Auntie Mame with Allison Janney and The Matchmaker with Kathy Bates.

darquegk said: "What about Alison Janney? I can't think of anyone more ideal than her"

Please try harder.

Jesus_Freak said: "I'm curious about the choice by some of Latifah for the role. I know she is a versatile talent no doubt but I somehow get the feeling that the only reason her name continues to be bandied about to play "Dolly" is because of her strong resemblance and the years-old rumor that she was once considered to play Pearl Bailey in a bio pic.

Her resemblance is probably what put the idea in my head, but her performance in Chicago and her name recognition are why I think she'd be successful. Plus it would be nice to see a woman of color do it, just like in the original.

GavestonPS said: "Sorry, val, but you are wrong. "You" and "I" in the sentence in question are both SUBJECT pronouns: "You do that"; "I do that"; your clue might have been the use of "who", also a subject pronoun."

Val has already responded to this, but I wanted to ask if you would ever say something like who does that except I? It's similar to the sentence in question, but we've gotten rid of the you. The new version is quite bad to my ears, but I'm curious to know if you disagree. I'm a linguistics student, and that would be an interesting data point. :)

In my own grammar, except functions as a preposition in this context (a short version of except for), so it takes object pronouns.

I would agree I would love to see:

1) Bernadette Peters

2) Dolly Parton

3) Reba

Take on the role of Miss Levi

Maybe this would be a stretch but does anyone think that Cher would take on the role.

Or even Meryl Streep (which I know I highly doubt she would replace someone)

icecreambenjamin said: "^I would kill to see Meryl Streep play Dolly, but she's said that she's not interested in revivals at the moment."



Has Meryl ever done a legit musical on Broadway?

Updated On: 3/27/17 at 05:58 PM

Meryl also did Wolfe's production of Mother Courage off Broadway (???? I think) where she sang. I think Tesori did the score.

She once said that she wants to come back to Broadway in a new play or musical, but isn't interested in revivals.

And what about Chita???

South Fl Marc said: "Jennifer Lopez - as what, Ms Money? - Ms Lopez cant act , cant sing, cant dance a triple threat."



Clearly, you've never see JLo live. She can dance... Very well. The roles she's taken as far as acting go have played to her strengths. Singing, not so strong.

GavestonPS said:

I is always the subject of a sentence or clause; the subject indicates who does something such as "look up rules on the internet".

Me is always the object in a sentence or clause; the object indicates one to whom something--"invited"--is done.

I is in the subjective case, but your suggestion that I is "always"s the subject of a sentence doesn't take into account when people are confused by the subject and object case, like you were. So awkward. "Except" is a preposition in the debated sentence, which means that I/ME must be in the OBJECT case because ME is the OBJECT of the preposition. I vs ME is probably one of the most difficult grammar concepts for people to understand because of hypercorrection---people remember being told "My friend and I, not my friend and me" and they think "I = correct and me = incorrect." The poster who sadly tried to post all of those strangely-worded rules did not understand the difference between all subjects and all objects. It's a common mistake. But this is another good reason why it's never good to go around berating strangers' grammar.

I showed this thread to my 7th graders (I had to skip the "a-hole" earlier in the thread, thanks Lizzie) to show them that rules of civility and graciousness are far more important than rules of grammar. Yes, we will always deal with snark and rudeness in the comments section and on boards like this, but hopefully the next generation coming up will be better than we are.

Back to the topic: This production of Dolly certainly has a chance of going the way of Hedwig, with less-popular and talented names trying to keep the show running. But I hope not. I for one would love to see Audra in this role more than any of the other names listed. Bernadette, too. By the way: If I had made a grammer mistake in this post; why not just pat urself on the back for notisicing it and keep it moving? ; )



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Another fantasy but would love to see Caroline O'Connor wear that famous red frock--she would sing and dance Dolly right out into Times Square.

She is someone who doesn't hold back--she'd be able to leap across with the waiters [AND sing 8 performances !].

Maybe Anastasia might open up more windows for her.