If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

#1

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 8:28pm

...what role would you like to see her in?

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#2

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 8:38pm

At 80 (MacLaine's 78 and I'm assuming the project will take a year or two to get off the ground)?

The old woman in ZORBA.

And whatever parts Angela Lansbury has left laying around.

Updated On: 10/26/12 at 08:38 PM

#3

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 9:00pm

I'm still not over the fact she's not playing Violet in the August film.

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#4

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 9:11pm

In this life or in her next reincarnation?

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#5

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 9:44pm

I'd love to see her onstage again. Can't someone write a musical adapted for her talents - she deserves a career capstone.

Updated On: 10/27/12 at 09:44 PM

#6

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 9:50pm

I think she would have (or would?) make a wonderful Mme. Armfeldt.

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#7

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 9:56pm

Not a musical but I'd love to see her in DOUBT.

#8

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:11pm

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#9

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:15pm

...they'd never believe it.

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#10

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:24pm

That's my favorite Kathie Lee Gifford song!!!

#11

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:47pm

I think she would have (or would?) make a wonderful Mme. Armfeldt.

I agree. And it's not obvious casting, but I think she would do it very well.

#12

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 3:56am

IIRC, most of her stage work was in musicals. I agree that Mme Armfeldt would be very interesting.

her carlotta would be plausible to me.

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#13

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 6:02am

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#14

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 6:52am

"her carlotta would be plausible to me."

I thought you meant in Phantom!

#15

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 9:49am

She'd have the EXACT SAME show she had last time, and the time before that. "I love you all..."!

#16

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 10:21am

I think she'd be too old for Carlotta Campion at this point. Liza would seem more plausible, and even she's too old, probably.

#17

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 10:23am

"Whatever parts Angela Lansbury has left laying around" is the phrase of the day.

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#18

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 11:03am

The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Visit. The plays. She could certainly do Dear World and the musical version of The Visit as well. But I have no interest in seeing them.

#19

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 11:32am

She should have been given the revival of Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway.

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#20

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 12:28pm

^ instead of vanessa?

re carlotta: yes, from follies. not phantom. although she might make a fabulous page boy.

ann miller was an older carlotta wasn't she? - not that it would make the age work, but precedent has been set correct?

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#21

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 2:32pm

Put me down in the Mme. Armfeldt camp. I'd also be curious to see her do Berthe.

#22

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 3:17pm

"^ instead of vanessa?"

Yes, instead of Vanessa.

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#23

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 5:41pm

"Whatever parts Angela Lansbury has left laying around" is the phrase of the day.

Thanks. I swear I didn't post it to be snotty. I was in the studio audience for a British TV show MacLaine did nine years ago and she was hysterical.

But I think we have to realistic: the number of roles appropriate for a woman of her age are few.

#24

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 7:26pm

"But I think we have to realistic: the number of roles appropriate for a woman of her age are few."

Oh I don't agree with that. I think all the British dames are finding roles: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Helen Mirren, Geraldine McEwan, Joanna Lumley, Brenda Blethyn, Stephanie Cole, Pauline Collins, Julia McKenzie, Annette Crosbie, Penelope Wilton, Prunella Scales

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#25

If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

Posted: 10/27/12 at 8:51pm

I love Lansbury as much as anyone, but I would have liked to have seen MacLaine in THE BEST MAN.

Imagine if someone could get MacLaine and Beatty in a show together? Sell out. Not that I can think of anything off the top of my head that would be a showcase for them.

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