Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Megan Mullally going back to TV!
#1Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:42pm
This just in: Emmy-winner Megan Mullally has officially signed on to play Alicia Silverstone's mama in ABC's new fall comedy Bad Mother's Handbook...
The series, which will receive an official pickup tomorrow at ABC's upfront presentation, centers on a 32-year-old woman (Silverstone) juggling care of her 16-year-old daughter (Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat) and her 48-year-old mother (Mullally)...
Megan Mullally to Play Silverstone's Bad Mama
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#2re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:43pmwoo! I love Megan!
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
#2re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:44pmWhat a disappointment.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)
-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)
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#3re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:47pm
Oh, boy... yet ANOTHER opportunity for Megan to showcase her Karen Walker character she can't seem to shake.
One-trick pony rides again. Yee-hah!
#4re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:51pm
Did the article say her character was rich?
Did the article say her character was a drunk?
Did the article say her character was a pill-popper?
No, I don't think so.
All it said was the show was a comedy. God forbid she does another comedy.
Stop pretending like you know everything about everything, Brody.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#5re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:52pm
just because she is doing a tv show doesnt mean she is leaving frankenstein
she'll just be VERY busy
"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch
#6re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:53pm
The show films in LA.
She'll be leaving YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN at the end of the summer.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#7re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:58pm
Regardless of what the character description is, Ms. Mullally can't seem to rid herself of her Karen Walker-isms. Even her Elizabeth in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is a variation of the same characterization she successfully formulated.
Even if the character was an African-American woman living in Harlem, you betcha Mullally would emote Karen Walker in her interpretation.
Nasal much, Mullally?!
Love me some Megan, but in all honesty -- even her embarrassing attempt at playing characters failed miserably when she hosted SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and whenever the crickets started rubbing their legs together countless of times during her short-lived talk show, she'd throw in a little Karen Walker ad-lib for a quick audience approval roar.
One-trick pony rides again! Yee-hah!
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#8re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:59pmIf it's a fall show, won't she have to leave before the end of the summer? They'll start filming well before that, I would imagine.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:00pmBrody lives up to his signature yet again.
#10re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:01pmSo what does that make you, Brody? A zero-trick pony?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)
-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)
#11re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:01pm
MCfan2, they're still trying to figure it out.
She's most likely leaving in July but potentially in August.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#13re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:10pmWell, the article said comedy, not sitcom. So, it's probably along the lines of "Samantha Who?," which films in LA.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#14re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:10pm
allthatjazz, acoording to imdb Samantha Who films in LA
I say good for Megan, work is work and the girl deserves to get new jobs when she calls for them. I think she'll be back on Broadway at some point, she's got such a good voice it'd be a shame if she weren't
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#15re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:21pm
A pair of one-trick ponies! Yee-hah!
AND Oklahoma-bred. The BEST kind!
PS: LOVE the shoes, Mullally. 
#16re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:23pm
I don't know why I thought SAMANTHA WHO? filmed in NY. It has such a NY feeling to it.
Either way, there goes my comment.
I hope it's good. I'll miss Mullally on Broadway.
"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"
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#17re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:30pm
Yo, Einstein -- numerous NYC plot-based TV shows are/were filmed in L.A.
SEINFELD
FRIENDS
CAROLINE IN THE CITY
UGLY BETTY (though there is talk to moving production to NYC next season)
#18re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:38pmI enjoyed several episodes of her talk show. The lady is talented.
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#19re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:51pm
Lol, no kidding, Brody. I thought LOST was filmed in the South Pacific, HEROES filmed in Japan/Odessa/NY, and that WILL & GRACE actually filmed in NY as well.
Brody, go listen to the MAMMA MIA soundtrack that Stacey got you. Maybe the Meryl sound will mellow you out, k? K.
"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"
#20re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 1:59amI'm much more excited to see Alia Shawkat back on television.
thatgirl712
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/08
#21re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 2:20amLove Megan as well!
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#22re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 10:09amWho cares if she's a one-trick pony? She's damn good at that one trick.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#23re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 10:33am
Wait a minute Megan Mullally turns tricks?
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#24re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 10:42amIt's also believed that YF will close after the Tony Awards(just a rumor though).
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
4thRowAsile
Chorus Member Joined: 4/18/08
#25re: Megan Mullally going back to TV!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:05amJust read that Ugly Betty is moving to New York (to film).
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