Michelle Dockery in Into the Woods?

[Katurian2]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 10:49am

Is there any specific talk in various spheres of another ITW revival on West End or screen? Seems like some Michelle Dockery audition video for Cinderella has popped up online recently for it...

http://vimeo.com/48536893

Just adding that I AM NOT OPPOSED TO THIS (BRILLIANT BRILLIANT) CASTING.

Updated On: 9/1/12 at 10:49 AM

[macnyc]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 10:55am

She is great. Just don't take her away from Downton Abbey, please! And, I couldn't tell from the clip, can she sing?

[Katurian2]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 10:56am

There's another clip from the same audition that's her singing more: http://vimeo.com/48536894



Downton films so little time during the year though, it would seem she'd for sure be able to put in some stage or film time!

[HBP]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 11:05am

I approve. (:

[xoffender45]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 11:14am

Oh dear God, cast her in the movie!!

[PurpleFanta]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 11:38am

YES. She's so wonderful on Downton. I didn't realize she had such a strong singing voice.

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 11:52am

So are they already casting the movie? That's a good sign.

[Skip2]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 12:48pm

Not quite legit voice. But she's perfection in DA.

Is the second song "Bonjour" from Beauty and the Beast?





Updated On: 9/1/12 at 12:48 PM

[jpbran]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 1:06pm

Hellz yea. That would be pretty genius...

**squeals like fangirl** (love her on "Downton")

And maybe not "legit," but a nice companion to Amy Adams' voice should this come to pass... Updated On: 9/1/12 at 01:06 PM

[jpbran]

Posted: 9/1/12 at 1:10pm

PS: From Wikipedia:

"Dockery is also a jazz singer. She sang at the 50th Anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in London and has occasionally sung with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern, who plays her mother in Downton Abbey. Dockery cites her musical influences as Peggy Lee, Melody Gardot and Billie Holiday in her more melancholy moods."

[lida rose]

Posted: 9/2/12 at 12:55am

lady mary is my favorite character on downton abbey and i'm sure she'd be brilliant in the role, but is she too old? how old is cinderella supposed to be anyway? i've always thought of her as being closer to twenty than thirty, but from what i can find most of the actresses who have played her in major productions in the past have been in their late twenties, with the outliers being laura benanti at 22 and helen dallimore at 38 (??!). but there's obviously a lot more wiggle room on stage than onscreen. if they're going for an older cinderella i wonder if the rest of the cast is going to skew slightly older as well.

Updated On: 9/2/12 at 12:55 AM

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 9/2/12 at 11:26am

Hmm, the video seems to have been switched to private.

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 4:58pm

Is there anywhere else to see this video now that it's private?

If she is cast in the film, I totally called it...

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?page=2&boardname=bway&thread=1048719#4325642

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 9/15/15 at 11:19pm

Um i want to see these vids. The links don't work. Any idea how to watch them?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/15/15 at 11:22pm

Look for her as ANOTHER famous Mary is what I read somewhere.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/15/15 at 11:34pm

They're rebooting 227?!?!?!?!?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/16/15 at 12:00am

It just so happens the best actress for Sondra is white.  Almost translucent.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/16/15 at 12:02am

OMG. Betty White should be Pearl and Dan Stevens should be Lester!