Michael C. Hall to star in Big Fish

As per Nikki Finke...
Excited about this project, especially with Stro steering. Hoping she can coax better material out of Lippa than the puppetmasters behind Addams.

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Updated On: 9/9/11 at 11:58 AM

I would have loved to see him as the Emcee! I did, however, catch him in Chicago and thought he was great.

I saw him in MISTER MARMALADE off-Broadway. The play wasn't much but he was brilliant.

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If the timeline mentioned is accurate, I wonder what this means for the 7th season of Dexter. I may be mistaken, but they normally film the show in Miami starting mid-summer.... surely they'd want Hall in the show for more than 3-4 months, no?

He was easily as good as Cumming in Cabaret, xxdrewboy85xx.

He was slinky and feral. And he brought an element of sexiness that I never thought Cumming quite captured.

I was unfamiliar with him going in. We were offered house seats for a perfromance (not the comp ones, we paid full price, but they were at the table where Susan Egan's guests were seated). I went to see Susan but was just mesmerized by Hall.

Susan was fantastic also, btw.

Anyway, I was instantly a fan. And then he went and got on a couple of successful tv shows. I've been hoping he would return to a musical!

Note to Hunter: please remember Hall's theatrical roots when he is (hopefully) nominated for a Tony.

I don't care for the movie Big Fish, but I'm really getting excited about this show. I also enjoy Lippa's music (ok, Addams was moedicore, but I LOVE his Wild Party and several "one off" songs that can be found on various vocalists solo cds.

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I first saw him in the David Hare play Skylight in the mid-90s. He was an understudy and happened to be on the night I saw it. I'd really gone to see Michael Gambon but left the theater thinking, "Who the hell was THAT kid?" Fantastic actor!