Marvin Hamlisch was working on Bullets Over Broadway. What happened with that? I think it would be a great musical!
Ditto, and Marvin is a good choice to do it.
The cast I gave would put butts in the seats and give the audience a great time. David Shayne (the main character) would be well played by Hugh Panaro. I really believe Christine Ebersole would be a great Helen Sinclair. Her comic timing is right on for it. And Sutton Foster has the 1920s girl thing down to play Ellen. Kristin Chenoweth would be pretty good as Olive, I think. And as Eve, the dog loving ingenue, Mara Davies or Kate Shindle?
Also-Kevin Chamberlain as the actor Hubert (I think that's his name).
I still love some of the lines (many of which I cannot put here!) One of my faves:
David: She (Eve) has a certain perkiness about her that the role requires.
Helen: She's perky, all right. Makes you want to sneak up behind her with a pillowcase and suffocate her!
I love that line.
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.