OK let's recast Night Music again
OK let's recast Night Music again
Joined: 12/31/69
#1OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:27pm
IF Peters & Stritch leave at the end of their contracts who would have the chops (and star power) to put butts in those seats?
I'll start- Debbie Reynolds as Madame and Carrie Fisher as Desiree.
#2OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:30pmAudra McDonald and Leslie Uggams!
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#2OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:34pm
Diahann Carroll as Madame Armfeldt
Vanessa Williams as Desiree
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:36pmAny way we can replace Trevor Nunn with Bartlett Sher?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:46pm
Diahann Carroll and Audra McDonald would be dynamite actually.
How about Nicole Kidman and Julie Andrews?
#5OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:47pmNow, Roscoe. Nunn's job was (and I'm being generous here) fine. But we all <3 Bart.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:53pmOr Brooke Shields as Desiree and Mary Tyler Moore as madame?
#7OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:56pmI still like my Julie Christie / Michelle Pfeiffer idea
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 4:57pmI want an all-male production.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#9OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 5:15pmLilo & Stitch
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#10OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 5:21pmLove the Carrie Fisher idea, but she already said she'd never sing again after The Star Wars Holiday Special...but I guess anything's possible. How bout Dame Judi Dench as Madame Armfeldt?
#11OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 5:48pm
Carrie Fisher sang "Happy Days are Here Again" during her solo show "Wishful Drinking."
I would kill to see Audra as Desiree! Phylicia Rashad as Armfeldt?
Updated On: 9/7/10 at 05:48 PM
#12OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 5:58pm
http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss301/I_C_Weener/Carrie_Fisher2flv-1.png
Yes, she would look absolutely ravishing in Desiree's sexy costumes....
#13OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:00pm
But isn't she glamorous?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#14OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:08pmI LOVE the Julie Andrews idea.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#15OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:15pm
Patti LuPone- Desiree
Dame Judi Dench- Madame Armfeldt
And lets give the rest of the cast a little star-love:
Paulo Szot- Fredrik
Lauren Molina- Anne
Bobby Steggert- Henrik
Donna Murphy- Countess
Cheyenne Jackson- Count
Karen Olivo- Petra
#16OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:19pmEmma Thompson as Desiree, with Dame Judi as Mme. A.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#17OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:20pm
My dream pairs would be:
Cate Blanchett & Judi Dench
Kate Winslet & Meryl Streep (who I know is too young, but would be brilliant...I'd also like to see her as Desiree)
Emma Thompson & Julie Andrews
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#18OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:25pmEmma Thompson & Judi Dench (or Julie Andrews) would be amazing.
#19OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 6:28pmCasting Michelle Pfeiffer and Julie Christie would be beyond perfection.
#20OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 7:08pm
Desiree- Mariska Hargitay
Madame Armfeldt-Debbie Reynolds
Fredrick-Brent Barret
Anne-Chelsea Morgan Stock
Henrik-Stanley Bahorek
Carl-Magnus-Bradley Dean
Charlotte-Elena Shaddow
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#21OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 7:17pm
Carrie Fisher sang "Happy Days are Here Again" during her solo show "Wishful Drinking."
And "My Guy" on Laverne & Shirley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOKkQWcseoA
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#22OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 7:17pmI think Chita could be quite good in this.
#23OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 7:30pmIs ANYONE feeling Christine Ebersole as Desiree?
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#24OK let's recast Night Music again
Posted: 9/7/10 at 7:30pm
She has done it...and not too successfully.
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