If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
esparza 333
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/07
#1If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 2:59pm
I would Pick
Ariel Eden Espinosa
Eric Mathew Morrison
Ursula Sara Ramirez
Triton Jeff McCarthy
Sebastian Chester Gregory
Scuttle David Hyde Pierce
Flounder Mathew Gumley, Henry Hodges
Flotsam and Jetsam Alan Cumming, Raul Esparza
Chef Louis Nathan Lane
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#2re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:03pmUhhh
#2re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:03pmI'd keep the same cast. It's the director I'd change.
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jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#3re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:09pm
i would sub samuel e. wright for sebastian, and gavin creel for eric.... and get a different director
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#4re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:54pmI would keep most of the cast and replace the director and have either Sherie Rene Scott, Vanessa Williams, or Sara Ramirez as Ursula.
#5re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 3:58pmEmily Skinner as Ursula.
"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
#6re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:07pm
i think Kelli O'Hara would be a great ariel 
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longshadowsfalling
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#7re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:11pmMichael Arden as Eric and Ali Ewoldt as Ariel.
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#8re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:13pmPatti LuPone as Triton
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#9re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:18pmor patti as scuttle... her seagull capabilities have already been proven
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scarlson
Swing Joined: 12/8/07
#10re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:28pmI really don't think the cast is the problem. I'd hire a new director, costume designer, and artistic director.
#11re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:36pm
Wayne Brady as sebastion.
But I agree I like the cast alot
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#12re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:40pm
New director and new book writer; keep the cast.
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#13re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:54pm
I would be OK with the same director.
New costume designer is what they really need.
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BillFinn
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/03
#14re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:55pm
Lyrics by David Zippel
Book by Linda Wolverton
David did well writing the lyrics to Tarzan, Hercules, and Mulan. He even worked with Alan Menken on Hercules! He should have been hired on.
With solid songs and book, the direction and costumes wouldn't have been such a big issue.
Bill Finn rocks. Woot.
Updated On: 12/23/07 at 04:55 PM
#15re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:55pmTommy Tune as Eric.
"Just remembering you've had an 'and' when you're back to 'or'
Makes the or mean more, than it did before..."
#16re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 4:55pmYou probably meant it as a joke, but Patti as Triton is a brilliant idea.
"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
#17re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 6:09pmHarvey as Ursula/Ariel.. I'd give him his pick.
that's a really big mic...
#18re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 6:20pm
Book by Linda Woolverton
Ursula: Patti LuPone
Triton: Terrance Mann
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#19re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 6:48pmI was gonna bust in and say Sara as Ursula, but apparently that isn't an original idea at all.
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#20re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 6:56pm
Toni Braxton as Ariel
Tyler Maynard as Sebastian
Matthew Morrison as King Triton
Chiara Navarra as Ursula
B.D. Wong as Eric
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BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#21re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 7:53pmEmily Skinner as Ursula
#22re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 8:19pm
I agree, I think the cast is very well cast. I wouldn't trade Sierra for anyone, although I'd be tempted to see how Sara Ramirez would do as Ursula. I think Sean Palmer is fabulous in the role of Eric, but I would also love to hear Cheyenne Jackson in the role.
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#23re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 9:11pm
The cast I would keep. However, The entier creative team sans Menkin I would ditch.
I don't think that the problem with this show is the cast. I think it totally lies within the creative team.
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#24re: If Mermaid had a Completely Different Cast Who would You Pick?
Posted: 12/23/07 at 9:24pmHow did Doug Wright go from Grey Gardens to...this?
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