It must be such a hard show to cast today. I do agree the original cast is unbeatable, I mean, I loved Leigh Ann Larkin in GYPSY (not so much in NIGHT MUSIC where she was just completely in a different cast) so we know she has it in her, but who's the next Jane Krakowski? Sheridan Smith channeled Krakowski in LEGALLY BLONDE, but I doubt she'd take a nonlead role like that. David Hyde Pierce lights up the stage, but who can replace Michael Jeter?
Of course with this logic, we wouldn't have seen some of the best revivals with great casts. I guess I just hope that when it does get revived, it's very carefully cast. That's why something like Encores! would be ideal.
"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"
