#1
Posted: 10/1/18 at 3:27pm
What musicals do we want him to do?
Now That We Know Bradley Cooper Can Sing...
#2
Posted: 10/1/18 at 3:44pm
Naked Boys Singing, please!
If they remake Cabaret, maybe he can do that with Emma Stone. Or a new musical. I wish more popular actors will lend their fame to support emerging theatremakers.
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim
#3
Posted: 10/1/18 at 4:01pm
He would have made for an interesting Billy in a competent Carousel revival....
Broadway World's Fireman.
#4
Posted: 10/1/18 at 4:03pm
Sondheimite said: "He would have made for an interesting Billy in a competent Carousel revival...."
This was the first role that came to my mind as well!
Also, Bobby in a Company revival ten years ago.
Updated On: 10/1/18 at 04:03 PM
#5
Posted: 10/1/18 at 4:21pm
Something where he and Jake Gyllenhaal sing at each other and then make out.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#6
Posted: 10/1/18 at 4:26pm
What about Ben in Follies?
Gaga plays Phyllis
Benanti plays Sally.
Steve Martin (too old?) plays Buddy
and Follies finally turns a profit.
Broadway World's Fireman.
#7
Posted: 10/1/18 at 4:46pm
Kad said: "Something where he and Jake Gyllenhaal sing at each other and then make out."
I was thinking of Jake too when I read the title so have to say +1 vote to this idea! lol
#8
Posted: 10/1/18 at 4:48pm
This is a very generic answer but Fieryo in Wicked.
He would do those white pants justice 
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Updated On: 10/1/18 at 04:48 PM
#9
Posted: 10/1/18 at 5:06pm
Oh honey, if we're casting him in musicals just to see him in a costume, I think his first role should be Emilio Estefan in ON YOUR FEET, so he can wear those white shorts.
#10
Posted: 10/1/18 at 8:27pm
He's an average singer in a film. Being a singer on Broadway is completely different, and he does not have a Broadway voice at all. Joshua Henry, Steven Pasquale, Audra McDonald, Jeremy Jordan, Laura Benanti, Norm Lewis, Philip Boykin, they have Broadway voices. Bradley took voice lessons to sing in a movie. He'll stick to movies and straight plays, I'm sure.
#11
Posted: 10/1/18 at 8:38pm
Kad said: "Something where he and Jake Gyllenhaal sing at each other and then make out."
A brokeback mountain musical?
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#12
Posted: 10/1/18 at 8:46pm
LuPita2 said: "He's an average singer in a film. Being a singer on Broadway is completely different, and he does not have a Broadway voice at all. Joshua Henry, Steven Pasquale, Audra McDonald, Jeremy Jordan, Laura Benanti, Norm Lewis, Philip Boykin, they have Broadway voices. Bradley took voice lessons to sing in a movie. He'll stick to movies and straight plays, I'm sure."
Calm down.
#13
Posted: 10/1/18 at 8:46pm
He took lessons from Eddie Vedder to sound authentic as a 90s grunge star twenty years later sidelining in country. It’s a very specific sound.
#14
Posted: 10/2/18 at 12:23am
Seems like there is some kinda polar opposite going on with this actor.
One says give him the role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel, which has to be one of the most demanding male roles out there. Another says he has an average voice.
I haven't heard him sing, so which is it? How exactly is his singing?
#15
Posted: 10/2/18 at 1:10am
Kad said: "Something where he and Jake Gyllenhaal sing at each other and then make out."
So LES MIZ, then.
#16
Posted: 10/2/18 at 1:19am
BroadwayConcierge said: "Sondheimite said: "He would have made for an interesting Billy in a competent Carousel revival...."
This was the first role that came to my mind as well!
Also, Bobby in a Company revival ten years ago."
Bobby is 35, obviously.
Dean Jones was 39 when he played the part; NPH was 38.
Bradley Cooper is 43.
I don't see the problem, if he got to the part in the next two weeks. In fact, were it up to me, I'd probably change the text to make Bobby 40 anyway. I don't think 35 is quite the milestone it was once thought to be.
Of course, if early reports of A STAR IS BORN bear out, Cooper may be too busy directing films to do any stage musical.
#17
Posted: 10/2/18 at 1:25am
Sondheimite said: "What about Ben in Follies?
Gaga plays Phyllis
Benanti plays Sally.
Steve Martin (too old?) plays Buddy
and Follies finally turns a profit.
"
Have you ever seen the show? Your ages are all wrong. You have women in their thirties playing ladies in their 50s, except for Steven Martin who could play the father of any of the rest of them, and Cooper is a decade too young for Ben. And this is all assuming the show is still set--as it should be--in the early 1970s.
Here's a breakdown I stole from somewhere on line:
"Character Breakdown:
- Sally Durant Plummer (Female, 45-55 yrs. old. ...
- Phyllis Rogers Stone (Female, 45-55 yrs. old. ...
- Buddy Plummer (Male, 50-60 yrs. old. ...
- Benjamin Stone (Male, 50-60 yrs. old. ...
- Young Sally (Female, 18-25 yrs. old. ...
- Young Phyllis (Female, 20-25 yrs. old. ...
- Young Buddy (Male, 20-30 yrs. old. ...
- Young Ben (Male, 20-30 yrs."
#18
Posted: 10/2/18 at 1:26am
LuPita2 said: "He's an average singer in a film. Being a singer on Broadway is completely different, and he does not have a Broadway voice at all. Joshua Henry, Steven Pasquale, Audra McDonald, Jeremy Jordan, Laura Benanti, Norm Lewis, Philip Boykin, they have Broadway voices. Bradley took voice lessons to sing in a movie. He'll stick to movies and straight plays, I'm sure."
I concur.
Exhibit A: Catherine Zeta Jones
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