JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY

[lisa902652]

JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#1

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:17am

He starts sometime in June

[mateo]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#2

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:21am

no way! as Edna??

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#2

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:24am

The "BEAVE"?

[theaterdude87]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#3

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:27am

I see him more as a Wilbur.

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[CurtainPullDowner]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#4

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:29am

The younger crowd will be going:

Who the F*ck are they talkin' about.

[mateo]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#5

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:30am

I do too. But thats crazy.

They would have to find an equally notable name to play Edna opposite his wilbur (if he was indeed wilbur.)

we will see. Where did you find out Lisa? any word on which role?

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[filmgirl325]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#6

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:30am

So do we know who he's playing?

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[CurtainPullDowner]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#7

Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:42am

I thought Blake was going back in as Edna.

[the_gambler3]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#8

Posted: 5/6/07 at 4:56am

JM will be going in as Wilbur.
Updated On: 5/6/07 at 04:56 AM

[broadwayguy2]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#9

Posted: 5/7/07 at 12:17pm

curtain, this august, blake will be playing edna at the music theatre of wichita.

[Jon]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#10

Posted: 5/7/07 at 12:58pm

As anyone who recalls the dreadful series "Still the Beaver" will tell you, Jerry Mathers CAN'T ACT AT ALL!

[ClumsyDude15]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#11

Posted: 5/7/07 at 1:12pm

I know who he is!

It's Beaver Cleaver!

As Edna?
Scary.

I think he'd do better as Wilbur.

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

[mateo]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#12

Posted: 5/9/07 at 12:35am

Its official

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107931.html

to play Wilbur this June.

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[jimnysf]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#13

Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:25am

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

[mateo]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#14

Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:31am

God I love Leave it to Beaver.

Wally was so cute in the later seasons.

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[Elphaba]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#15

Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:35am

stay AWAY from Wally, Mateo, he's mine!

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Updated On: 5/9/07 at 01:35 AM

[jimnysf]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#16

Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:38am

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

[mateo]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#17

Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:39am

don't give me the business!

I'll fight. :)

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[broadwayjim42]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#18

Posted: 5/9/07 at 10:50am

Thank you Jon...I never thought much of him as a child actor and he is absolutely godawful as an adult.

I mean, nostalgia can only take you so far...this is absolute BS.
Don't do this to a show I love!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#19

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:04am

I think Wilbur is such a cop out role for celbrities/former celebrities to play. If you're going to make a splash in HAIRSPRAY, go overboard and play Edna! There's nothing to do in the role of Wilbur.

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-Kad

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[Auggie27]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#20

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:13am

Now, a tourist can take a snap with a cell phone and go home with a Beaver Shot.

Sidebar -- what gay man over 50 didn't know he was ThatWay watching Wally? Does anyone remember him guesting on a DR. KILDARE a couple of years later, where he got a girl pregnant? I have a friend in SF who cannot talk about how he pictured the teen Tony Dow getting laid in a car without swooning. Swooning, the only word. The conception wasn't shown of course, or Mr. Chamberlin would've swooned to. He was also in a dreadful scifi movie called SPACE CHILDREN. Ah, the 50s.

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[LouieLovesTheater]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#21

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:16am

Yeah...that's what Jerry Mathers did. He actually got the script for each and every Broadway show and said..."Which role is the biggest cop out that I can play?...Wilbur in Hairspray."

Maybe...just MAYBE...that's the role he was offered.

And if YOU were offered a role on Broadway are you saying you would turn it down because it had "nothing to do"?

[Hank]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#22

Posted: 5/9/07 at 12:39pm

I love it!
As an 50's era immigrant kid growing up in an ethnic ghetto, the Beaver was my role model on how to be a middle class all-American guy.
And here I am!
Can't wait to see him dancing to "Timeless To Me".

[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#23

Posted: 5/9/07 at 12:44pm

This scares me. As cute as he was a kid, Mathers is a horrible adult actor. Wilbur is nothing but one-liners and reactions...without an (at least) experienced character actor, it doesn't seem like the character would be very successful. But, I'm sure he'll bring in the tourists.

...and Tony Dow...SWOOOOOON.

[lildogs]

re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY#24

Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:41pm

Wilbur is a great part--at least it was when I saw De Rosa do it--he was great!

Of course if Tony Dow was doing the show, I'd be there in a heartbeat...that's a hot pic jim, but I liked him when he was more feathered in the earlier seasons...Wally's a dreamboat....
Updated On: 5/9/07 at 01:41 PM