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#26

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 4:29pm

"Well I'm assuming if she had won a Tony for Sister Act her chances of getting Pippin would have been even stronger, you dingbat."

Oh, you mean like how she was offered a part in the next Hunger Games film after winning her Tony?

It's an impossible question to answer because it's assuming everything that would have happened the EXACT SAME for everyone involved.

When actors win awards, they are offered many opportunities. Some stay in the theatre. Many are offered film or TV. Patina certainly was!

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#27

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 5:21pm

Does anyone else think Patina could make a fantastic Reno Sweeney?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#28

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 5:23pm

I could see that. I think lots of women could nail that part. I wonder who else was in the running besides Sutton.

So Lauren Bacall me, anything goes! *wink*

#29

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 5:27pm

Reba McEntire was considered at one point.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/123483-Reba-McEntire-May-Head-Back-to-Broadway-in-Cole-Porter-Classic

And at one point, I THINK there were Donna Murphy rumors.

#30

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 5:30pm

Wow, musicaldude -- do you KNOW how to have a conversation with people? maybe if you actually thought about what was being said, you wouldn't start name calling.

Kad is 100% right: every action creates numerous other actions. She didn't win for Sister Act (and shouldn't have IMO) but was well deserved for Pippin.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

#31

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 6:20pm

Kad isn't 100% right. That's your opinion. He's talking rubbish and that's my opinion.

#32

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 7:52pm

Uh, no. It's not opinion. It's a fact. It is an impossible question to definitively answer. It's like asking "If Al Gore became president in 2000, would Obama have been elected in 2008?" You can SPECULATE. But you did not ask for speculations.

The crux of your question hinges on whether or not Patina Miller would have done Pippin if she had won a Tony in 2011.

It is impossible to say she would have even done Pippin if that were the case. Tracie Thoms played the role in workshops. Perhaps if Patina won the Tony in 2011, she would have received an opportunity to appear in a film, or a TV pilot, or some other totally unknown property, and perhaps she would have TAKEN that opportunity (a situation which has precedence, as it is exactly what happened this year) and then perhaps you'd be asking "Would Tracie Thoms have won the Tony if...?"

And THAT answer is as legitimate as any you'd get from asking such a question, because it's a speculative question that breeds only speculative answers.

And that's not opinion, that is fact. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it less so.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Updated On: 10/27/13 at 07:52 PM

#33

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 8:04pm

And that's not to mention that IF she had already had a Tony award the ART might not have wanted her. Very often an actor's minimum salary demands (as well as other perks) will increase once they win a major award such as a Tony.

#34

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 8:08pm

How could the odds of her getting a show be HIGHER than her actually getting the show (which she did)? That doesn't even make sense.

#35

Is Reno Sweeney REALLY a leading role?

Posted: 10/27/13 at 10:15pm

Re Donna Murphy, my understanding is the show was supposed to be created as a reteam of Kathleen Marshall and Donna Murphy, but Murphy wasn't interested. A slew of ladies were rumored for the part: Murphy, McIntire, and Catherine Zeta-Jones (wasn't the rumor that she got offered the role but decided to pick a less physically demanding role for her Broadway debut?). Sutton Foster was very left field, and it sure worked wonders.
I don't really get how it's a question whether Reno Sweeney is a lead role, the entire show only exists to showcase the role and the story is told through her POV. She's definitely the star of the show.

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