JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
lisa902652
Stand-by Joined: 4/10/05
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#2re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:21am
no way! as Edna??
-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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#3re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:27amI see him more as a Wilbur.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#4re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:29am
The younger crowd will be going:
Who the F*ck are they talkin' about.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#5re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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?
-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"
#6re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:30amSo do we know who he's playing?
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#7re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/6/07 at 12:42amI thought Blake was going back in as Edna.
#8re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/6/07 at 4:56am
JM will be going in as Wilbur.
Updated On: 5/6/07 at 04:56 AM
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#9re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/7/07 at 12:17pmcurtain, this august, blake will be playing edna at the music theatre of wichita.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/7/07 at 12:58pmAs anyone who recalls the dreadful series "Still the Beaver" will tell you, Jerry Mathers CAN'T ACT AT ALL!
#11re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#12re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/9/07 at 12:35am
Its official
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107931.html
to play Wilbur this June.
-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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#13re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:25am
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#14re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:31am
God I love Leave it to Beaver.
Wally was so cute in the later seasons.
-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"
#15re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:35am
stay AWAY from Wally, Mateo, he's mine!
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#16re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:38am
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#17re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:39am
don't give me the business!
I'll fight. :)
-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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#18re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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!
#19re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:04amI 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.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#20re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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.
LouieLovesTheater
Leading Actor Joined: 3/30/04
#21re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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".
#23re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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.
#24re: JERRY MATHERS IN HAIRSPRAY
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
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