Kennedy Center FOLLIES to Transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theater This Summer! — Page 7

I hope they would get rid of Regine and perhaps hire Liliane Montevecchi...I saw her recently and the woman still has it! She can light up a stage!

I would like to see Rita Moreno as Carlotta.

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You lucky people. I'm in NYC next month and most likely not again until January. I can only hope it runs until at least the second or third weekend in January.

Ok, for all you Stritch lovers. I understand that you want Stritch to have a showstopping number, but she in no way can be believed as Carlotta. The audience really needs to believe that at some point in her life, Carlotta was sexy enough to entice the guys who were waiting at the stage door. Yes she possibly could play Hattie, but there really are some actresses that are a bit more age appropriate.

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Who better to play Carlotta then Tina Turner? It's like the song was written about her life. And that throaty tough voice that Tina has would really bring out a roughness that the song has always been missing.

I'm starting my "Tina Turner For Carlotta" Facebook page right now.

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Stritch played Hattie 25 years ago in the concert version and all she did was bitch about how Carol Burnett hadn't lived enough to sing "I'm Still Here".

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PJ--I love your casting ideas of Alice Playten and Lorna Luft.

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Playten would really be ideal.

And as long as we're mentioning famous offspring, how about Lucy Arnaz as Carlotta. Or the too-old but incredibly well preserved Michelle Lee?

Yeah, but Bernadette actually passes for 49 in this production as her character states in the finale.

Who better to play Carlotta then Tina Turner? It's like the song was written about her life.

Who is this Tina Turner you speak of? Certainly you're not talking about the singer?

Chita Rivera for Carlotta! Still sings up a storm every Atlantis cruise. She's electric onstage.

Supposedly they start January, 2012. At least that what Lansbury said in the interview.

Stritch has no bigger fan than I on this board, or anywhere else, but there is no place for her in this production, or any other.

Amen.

Per the script, Carlotta is essentially the same age as Phyllis and Sally. I guess there's a bit of wiggle room there, but she's in the mirror number (at least in most productions), so it's weird to consider a Carlotta older than even Stella Deems.

Part of the problem, though, is that almost no major production of this show ever casts people who are age appropriate to their roles (Encores came pretty close, although I still wake up shrieking when I think about Christine Baranski's Carlotta) If you've got a 64 year old woman playing a 49 year old woman, what's so weird about a 70 year old Carlotta?

Either I see people's ages a lot of differently than others or people on this thread do. Bernadette looks 49? Angela Lansbury looks like she's in her sixties? Really? I think both of the women look great, but I don't think either of them is looking 15-20 years younger than they really are.

Updated On: 6/16/11 at 02:39 PM

As Young Ben!