PERFECT Casting Game- Page 8

[Overkill]

PERFECT Casting Game#175

Posted: 7/21/11 at 3:03am

Kritzer is PERFECT for Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress. I want to see that SO bad.

Carol Burnett

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#176

Posted: 7/21/11 at 5:38am

Burnett as The Grand Duchess in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU

John McMartin

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#177

Posted: 7/21/11 at 8:40am

John McMartin as Old Man in The Chairs

One of my favorites: Kim Crosby

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#178

Posted: 7/21/11 at 8:53am

Crosby as Vera Simpson (although she'll always be perpetually young to me)

Julie White?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Whatshisname]

PERFECT Casting Game#179

Posted: 7/21/11 at 1:19pm

Julie White- Regan in King Lear



Meryl Streep?

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#180

Posted: 7/21/11 at 2:32pm

Meryl Streep as Margaret of Anjou in Shakespeare's first tetralogy

Ed Norton

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#181

Posted: 7/21/11 at 3:12pm

Norton as Quentin in After the Fall

Robert Sean Leonard?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#182

Posted: 7/22/11 at 12:08am

Robert Sean Leonard as Kenneth Talley, Jr. in Fifth of July.

Marisa Tomei?

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#183

Posted: 7/22/11 at 5:21am

Marisa Tomei as Bunny Flingus in The House of Blue Leaves.
(RSL already played Kenneth Talley, to much acclaim, at the Signature Theater in 2003)

Frank Wood?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#184

Posted: 7/22/11 at 2:23pm

Ah, re: RSL already acing 5thoJuly, either I'm really good at this or I had known that, consciously forgotten, and subconsciously cheated.

I'd also love to see Robert as Joe in The Children's Hour.

Wood as Willy Loman

Angelica Huston?

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#185

Posted: 7/25/11 at 9:10am

She's too old now, but a decade or so ago Huston would have made a perfect Jean Brodie. Has she done theatre in her career?

Jan Maxwell?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[givesmevoice]

PERFECT Casting Game#186

Posted: 7/25/11 at 9:32am

I actually think a young Jan Maxwell could have made a great Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday.

Dana Ivey?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#187

Posted: 7/25/11 at 9:39am

Agreed that Jan Maxwell could've been a great Billie Dawn. (How old was Madeline Kahn when she played the role?)

Dana Ivey as Bessie Berger in AWAKE AND SING.

Sarah Paulson?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[madbrian]

PERFECT Casting Game#188

Posted: 7/25/11 at 10:03am

Sarah Paulson as Jessie in 'night, Mother

Kathy Bates?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[givesmevoice]

PERFECT Casting Game#189

Posted: 7/25/11 at 10:07am

I'm pretty sure someone said this earlier in the thread, but I love the idea of Kathy Bates as Mattie Fae in August: Osage County.

Jose Llana?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#190

Posted: 7/25/11 at 10:26am

I've always thought that Llana would be great as Curley in OKLAHOMA. Also, I remember watching him in THE KING AND I and thinking he'd make an amazing King the next time they did a revival. So, either of those.

Anna Paquin?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[madbrian]

PERFECT Casting Game#191

Posted: 7/25/11 at 10:34am

Anna Paquin as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

Olga Merediz?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#192

Posted: 7/25/11 at 11:13am

Merediz as Joanne in COMPANY

Felicity Huffman?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[madbrian]

PERFECT Casting Game#193

Posted: 7/25/11 at 11:16am

Felicity Huffman as Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame

Terrence Mann?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#194

Posted: 7/25/11 at 11:17am

I've always wanted to see Mann as Captain Von Trapp. Has he done it before, regionally?

Julia Murney

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#195

Posted: 7/25/11 at 11:37am

Julia Murney in a rep season: Diana Goodman in Next to Normal, Constance of Brittany in King John, Jenny in Threepenny Opera

Fiona Shaw

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#196

Posted: 7/25/11 at 11:45am

Fiona Shaw as Mary Cavan Tyrone
(Love the idea of Murney as Jenny, btw)

Rebecca Luker?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[givesmevoice]

PERFECT Casting Game#197

Posted: 7/25/11 at 12:07pm

Perhaps someone else can come up with a role for present-day Rebecca Luker, but I think that she could've made a wonderful Abigail Adams in 1776 (probably even around the time of the 1997 revival).
ETA: Scratch that: I'd love to see her really stretch her acting chops in a role like Margaret Johnson.


Erin Davie?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

Updated On: 7/25/11 at 12:07 PM

[madbrian]

PERFECT Casting Game#198

Posted: 7/25/11 at 12:22pm

Erin Davie as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Joan Allen?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#199

Posted: 7/25/11 at 12:23pm

Erin Davie would be a dream as Liza Elliott in LADY IN THE DARK.

Anika Noni Rose?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body