Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
#1Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 11:44am
I think Oprah's a very good actress and seeing someone like her on stage would be kind of amazing.
http://m.playbill.com/news/article/150160-Oprah-Winfrey-Says-Her-Dream-Is-to-Play-Broadway
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#2Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 11:46amIf Oprah wants something, chances are, it will happen. And I think this might be a great idea.
#2Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 12:08pmWasn't she in Legally Blonde?
#3Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 12:10pmI would pay to see her! I love Oprah.
#4Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 12:13pmI don't watch her show and not a big fan of hers personally but she is a very good actress and I would see her onstage.
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#6Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 12:17pmOprah is the most powerful woman in entertainment today. She has achieved everything she has said she would. I personally think she has an uncanny amount of charisma and could see her really succeeding on the broadway stage.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#7Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 12:19pm
Wasn't she in Legally Blonde?
I love you, HistoryBoy2. 
#8Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 12:22pmi love Oprah. I just hope it's not a damn slave show. So sick of seeing one of the richest most powerful women in the world play slave characters.
#9Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 1:07pmShe's set to play Mama Nadi in the film version of Ruined; maybe she'll bring the play to Broadway, too.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#10Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:16pmDidn't Reidel report she wanted the FENCES revival?
#11Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:37pmDoes Oprah stagedoor? What's the show curtain like? What merch are they selling?
#12Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:39pmI had wanted to make a joke about the stage curtain being one of her shirts but I'm not going to.
Chad Eberle
Understudy Joined: 6/25/08
#13Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:40pmI hope this happens. I would see her for sure. And no matter which play she's in, it would be a guaranteed long run because of the sheer number of people who would want to see Oprah perform on Broadway.
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#14Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:41pmIn a Musical No but I'd kill to see her in a straight Play. when is someone going to Adapt the Oprah Winfrey Story to the Stage or Screen?
#15Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 2:41pmWell thats where you're wrong. If it were ever to happen, I can't see it being any longer than a 12 week run. This is one of the busiest women in the world.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#16Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 3:17pmPerhaps her good friend Tyler Perry will write her a part.
#17Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 3:20pmAnd lo, the OPRAH said "Let me be on Broadway," and then OPRAH was, and it was good.
rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
#18Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 3:26pm
"Wasn't she in Legally Blonde?"
I don't get the joke. :P
#19Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 3:33pmWhat the EFF is a "damn slave show"?!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#20Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 7:28pmLove her to death, really do but, I can't see her in anything bigger than a funny/character sidekick of some sort.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#21Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 7:30pm
So sick of seeing one of the richest most powerful women in the world play slave characters.
Then stop watching Beloved.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#22Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 7:39pmBlerg. I kind of had my hopes set on a slave show and now I feel like a jerk even saying it because apparently it's uncool or whatever. Like "Oprah's Slave Show" where they cover you with wet paper spit balls at the end and ruin your only business suit and hairdid. That would've been great.
tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#23Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 7:43pm
"And lo, the OPRAH said "Let me be on Broadway," and then OPRAH was, and it was good."
Winner! Best post of the day!
What's that I hear? The phone in the Weissler offices trying to get her in Chicago as Mama? **
#24Oprah Says It's Her Dream To Be On Broadway
Posted: 4/25/11 at 7:45pm
For Oprah to be on Broadway, it would essentially boil down to her agreeing to do 12 weeks of charity work because Broadway could never pay her and the whole thing would a be circus.
Sadly Oprah can't take a small show or a small part and just act. Whatever she does would become an event. Huge theatre, huge ticket prices, huge security and audience issues.
As previously stated, the woman is like a world leader at this point and can't take off 6 months to do a show.
I think she is a great actress and commits fully to her projects but the logistics would be a nightmare and getting a ticket would be an impossibility.
Its the same reason Babs can't return to Broadway. Too much hoopla.
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