Posted: 4/29/20 at 11:55am
OK i will start,,,
BERNADETTE PETERS...Cora Hoover Hooper
JAKE GYLLENHAAL...J Bowden Hapgood...
and???
Posted: 4/29/20 at 12:05pm
Posted: 4/29/20 at 12:07pm
Kate Baldwin might be just a tad too old for Fey, but boy would she be divine.
Posted: 4/29/20 at 12:28pm
Posted: 5/2/20 at 6:25am
i would think in this time of forced isolation this a fun game to play...but only a few have commented here or even look at this thread in the first place...people there is nothing wrong with speculation...why even the Hairspray suggestion for a revival getting more looks...after watching the Sondheim 90th Birthday event last Sunday, songs from ANYONE CAN WHISTLE stood out to me...this is a game people...
Posted: 5/2/20 at 9:22am
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I'd also like to see Amber Gray as Cora one day. I bet Benanti would ham it up as Cora too.
Posted: 5/2/20 at 10:41am
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Posted: 5/2/20 at 1:59pm
Bernadette has already played Fay in a concert version of Anyone Can Whistle, so if we're just keeping track of which Sondheim shows she's done, than we can already check this one off the list. But still it would be great to have her return to the piece in a different role.
Posted: 5/2/20 at 2:09pm
Posted: 5/2/20 at 3:41pm
Bernadette as Madame Armfeldt! She's gotta be the right age now.
Posted: 5/2/20 at 3:52pm
Posted: 5/2/20 at 4:02pm
Gurl has at least 5-10 years left in her before she has to resort to Madame Armfeldt!
Posted: 5/2/20 at 4:25pm
A number of actors have played Madame Armfedlt in their early to mid 70s, including Hermione Gingold at age 76, and (the one I saw most recently) Dana Ivey at age 73.
The thing about Bernadette is just that she looks so much younger than she is. It may be another 15-20 years before she reads old enough onstage to play the role.
Posted: 5/2/20 at 7:13pm
I’m a huge Sondheim fan and besides the score man oh man does this show not do it for me at all.
The only show of Sondheim’s I would call pretentious.
I GET that it’s supposed to be absurdist but it just does nothing for me.
the best and most beautiful songs from it work wayyy better out of context.
Updated On: 5/2/20 at 07:13 PM
Posted: 5/2/20 at 7:25pm
Baranski or Catherine O Hara as Cora, Bernie Feldstein as Faye, Larry Owens as Hapgood.
Posted: 5/3/20 at 1:51am
As far as alternate roles go, I think Sutton Foster as Cora could also be fun to see. I'd love to have "There's Always a Woman" reinstated as well
Posted: 5/3/20 at 2:24am
rattleNwoolypenguin said: "
I’m a huge Sondheim fan and besides the score man oh man does this show not do it for me at all.
The only show of Sondheim’s I would call pretentious.
I GET that it’s supposed to be absurdist but it just does nothing for me.
the best and most beautiful songs from it work wayyy better out of context."
I agree the show doesn’t work. Even Donna Murphy, Foster and Raul couldn’t make it work imo. The whole structure and timing of the show feels weird to me. More reason why a covid concert might be a better presentation, although even then maybe what we really need is just another cast recording.
I could see a covid Sweeney being actually quite fun and creative - people using their kitchen, dining room as a set. ‘By the Sea’ would have extra subject too. If someone was really ambitious it could really work!
Posted: 5/3/20 at 12:01pm
LuPone sounds great here singing "Me and My Town"! (The Link is on YouTube, it seems someone might have removed it, maybe because it's a bootleg...though funny how when it is 15 years old and the performance would otherwise be lost suddenly it doesn't really matter anymore).
Updated On: 5/3/20 at 12:01 PM
Posted: 5/3/20 at 1:41pm
One of the first Sondheim shows I ever saw was Anyone can whistle at Ravinia, Patti and Audra were great(I don't remember a lot about Cerveris though) I never understood Audra before seeing her in person. I think that was the first time I saw Patti as well(but I may have been to a concert of hers though)
Updated On: 5/3/20 at 01:41 PM
Posted: 5/3/20 at 1:51pm
wiggum2 said: "One of the first Sondheim shows I ever saw was Anyone can whistle at Ravinia, Patti and Audra were great(I don't remember a lot about Cerveris though) I never understood Audra before seeing her in person. I think that was the first time I saw Patti as well(but I may have been to a concert of hers though)"
Oh ****. I forgot about an Anyone Can Whistle done with this cast. Now to be depressed for another 10 years that I didn't get to see it...
I also don't think we're going to get a better casting than the Encores version. And I once saw Bernadette, Madeline Kahn and Scott Bakula do it in concert!
If the show is revived it has to completely embrace that weird 60s aura and mixture of innocent, farcial liberalism and over-the-top, spoofy political cynicism. It should look reminiscent to an old episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Updated On: 5/3/20 at 01:51 PM
Posted: 5/4/20 at 12:36am
rattleNwoolypenguin said: "
I’m a huge Sondheim fan and besides the score man oh man does this show not do it for me at all.
The only show of Sondheim’s I would call pretentious.
I GET that it’s supposed to be absurdist but it just does nothing for me.
the best and most beautiful songs from it work wayyy better out of context."
I think Sondheim would entirely agree. In his FINISHING THE HAT, he says something like "We were too smart-ass for our own good."
I saw a production at the York in late, last century and it really does not work (except for the musical numbers). One hardly knows who anyone is until Act II, which is really late to begin to care about characters in a musical.
I think if we're "dream casting", we should choose a new book writer first.
