Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE

[nicholas24]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#1

Posted: 6/18/10 at 12:58pm

I would absolutely love to see the wonderful Leigh Anne Larkin as Fanny in the revival of Funny Girl.
She's got fantastic vocals, comic timing that cannot be denied, and a quality that, to me, SCREAMS Fanny.

I also LOVE that she's not an unknown, and she's not a Super TV or Music Star. She's done her supporting work and she's received brilliant reviews for them.

She would be stunning in the role, from the young girl with big dreams to the woman with heartache and loss.
I told her about my wish and she said she would be honored.

She is my number one choice.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#2

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:00pm

Totally and completely wrong for the role.

[AC126748]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#2

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:01pm

Leslie Kritzer, please.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[D2]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#3

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:05pm

It's going to be an unbearably long two years.

Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#4

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:06pm

How much you want to bet that the buildup will ultimately be longer than the actual production's run?

[newintown]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#5

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:07pm

I love Larkin's totally un-goyische quality. She's practically a one-woman Hadassah branch.

[Borstalboy]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#6

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:13pm

"It's going to be an unbearably long two years."

Not to mention redundant, monotonous, and shrill.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[CurtainPullDowner]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#7

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:15pm

funniest heading ever!

[bwaylvsong]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#8

Posted: 6/18/10 at 1:21pm

Marla Mindelle for Fanny!

[BroadwayBound062]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#9

Posted: 6/18/10 at 10:42pm

No no and no

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#10

Posted: 6/18/10 at 11:05pm

YES PLEASE!

[Michael Bennett]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#11

Posted: 6/18/10 at 11:37pm

Can we start the firing squad now please.

Please go read the script. Please do research on Fanny Brice. Please stop suggesting the most wrong people for the role in the business.

Thank You.

[Rotel1026]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#12

Posted: 6/19/10 at 1:20am

I just did some research on wikipedia on Fanny and I'm thinking Whoopi Goldberg.

[munkustrap178]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#13

Posted: 6/19/10 at 1:22am

After her all over the map, strange, odd, bizarre performance in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC? No. Way.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[BroadwayBound115]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#14

Posted: 6/19/10 at 12:10pm

what about Karen Olivo?

[timote316]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#15

Posted: 6/19/10 at 12:56pm

Neil Patrick Harris!

[nicholas24]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#16

Posted: 6/19/10 at 1:51pm

some people are so crazy Updated On: 6/19/10 at 01:51 PM

[bwaylvsong]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#17

Posted: 6/19/10 at 2:21pm

How is Mindelle wrong for the part? Other than being a little too tall and attractive for the role, she's perfect- hilarious, hammy, unique, amazing stage presence, and a stunning voice that is somewhat similar to but not overtly like Barbra's.

[ggersten]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#18

Posted: 6/19/10 at 2:36pm

Well, there is a Tony winner who played Fanny Brice in High School.....Parade is at 4:35
She is a Tony Winner

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#19

Posted: 6/19/10 at 7:55pm

Wasn't Reba looking for a show to do? Here's the one.

"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"

[millie_dillmount]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#20

Posted: 6/19/10 at 10:05pm

Harvey Fierstein

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[iflip4musicals]

Leigh Anne Larkin=Fanny Brice in 2012 PLEASE#21

Posted: 6/19/10 at 10:09pm

this is of little importance now, but it's Leigh Ann, sans 'e' at the end. I did find that the OP, who mentioned knowing/loving/respecting her work misspelled her name...

"I've never encountered such religiously, you know, loyal fans as Broadway musical theater fans. It's amazing." --Allison Janney