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PERFECT Casting Game
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#200PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/25/11 at 6:28pmJoan Allen as Ranevskaya and Anika Noni Rose as Varya in The Cherry Orchard
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#202PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/25/11 at 6:35pmAC, I wasn't aware of Huston's work on stage. But broadwayworld.com (what a resource) says that she was Francesca Annis's understudy as Ophelia, and an ensemble member, in Tony Richardson's Hamlet starring Nicol Williamson in 1969.
#203PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/25/11 at 6:45pm
Wow, she would have only been 18 years old at the time of that production. I wonder if she ever went on for Annis.
Pauline Collins as Lettice Douffet in LETTICE AND LOVAGE.
Sigourney Weaver?
"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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#205PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/25/11 at 10:18pm
Alan Rickman as Barabbas in THE JEW OF MALTA.
Sinead Cusack?
"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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#206PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 2:16pm
Did Cherry Orchard remind you of Sinead?
I'd love to see her as something completely unexpected (like Madame Arcati) but I'll play it safe and offer Agnes in A Delicate Balance (to Jeremy's Tobias might be interesting).
Claire Bloom?
#207PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 4:06pm
You're quite right that it did; what performances she and Beale (and Hall) gave! One of my most memorable nights at the theatre. And I actually LOVE the idea of her as Madame Arcati (and as Agnes).
Has Bloom ever played Queen Margaret in RICHARD III? I think she'd be ideal.
I'll advance the game with Cusack's Chekhovian daughter, Rebecca Hall.
"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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#208PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 6:56pm
Don't know if Bloom has ever played Margaret.
Wow. Rebecca Hall. Have you seen the Nicole Holofcener movie Please Give, AC? She's terrific in it. I'm gonna stick with a theme here and say she'd be a wonderful Ruth to Sinead's Madame Arcati, maybe with Matthew Madfadyen as Charles and Romola Garai as Elvira.
(An all Anglo production of Blithe Spirit would sure to be controversial. Thank goodness Sinead is Irish..... JUST KIDDING FOLKS!)
Thomas Sadoski?
#209PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 7:15pm
PLEASE GIVE was one of my favorite films last year. Holofcener is quite the talent. Hall and Amanda Peet blew me away.
I love the idea of BLITHE SPIRIT with a YOUNG cast. The way they cast the recent Broadway revival, Charles, Ruth, and Elvira could have been Madame Arcati's cousins.
Sadowski as Jimmy Porter in LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
Bill Nighy?
"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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#210PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 7:20pm
I loved the movie too. Peet was also wonderful in it.
If he's not too old for it, Bill Nighy as Alan Turing in Breaking the Code.
Juliet Stevenson?
#211PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 8:06pm
Juliet Stevenson as Phyllis Rogers Stone.
Kelsey Grammer?
"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
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#212PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 9:15pm
Horace vangelder in Hello dolly to bernadette peters dolly.
Alice Ripley?
BeingAlive2
Swing Joined: 7/11/11
#213PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 9:59pm
with vocal rest and about 15 years, i think alice could be mama rose
reeve carney?
#214PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/26/11 at 10:52pm
Carney as Finch in How to Succeed. Maybe Gabe in N2N.
Next: Karen Olivo
ILuv2shop531
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/07
#215PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 2:17am
Ahh Reeve as Finch would be different but interesting to see.
Karen as Rosie in Bye, Bye Birdie
Next: Jason Tam
#216PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:34am
Jason Tam as Chip in Spelling Bee
Victor Garber?
"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
#217PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:48am
Garber as George in JUMPERS.
Judy Greer?
"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
#218PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:08am
Judy Greer as Brooke in Noises Off
Johnny Galecki?
"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
#219PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:20am
Great choice for Greer, madbrian.
Galecki as Bri in A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG.
Kaitlin Hopkins?
"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
#220PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:27am
I think Kaitlin Hopkins would be a great Baker's Wife.
Geoffrey Rush.
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
#221PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:40am
Geoffrey Rush as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
Rachel York?
"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
#222PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:43am
Rachel York as Mrs. Wilkinson
Elisabeth Moss?
"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
#223PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 1:18pm
Just a supplementary post here. Someone over on ATC suggested that Donna Murphy would be a great replacement for Tyne Daly in MASTER CLASS. I find myself somewhat obsessed with the idea now. Murphy seems ideal to me:
--She's closer in age than almost anyone who's played her in a major production (save Patti LuPone, who was the exact same age when she played Callas that Callas was when she taught at Juilliard)
--Her strong, attractive features are similar to Callas's
--We know from her performances that she can be both temperamental and nurturing, strong but also subtle.
I love the idea personally. Thoughts?
"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
#224PERFECT Casting Game
Posted: 7/27/11 at 1:41pmI've never seen Master Class, but am pretty familiar with the show, and I think Murphy could be incredible. There are times when her name is thrown out for a role that I have a hard time imagining her in the part (Rose is the best example of this), but know that if I actually saw her, she would blow me away. So while she's not the first person to come to mind for the part, I'm sure she would be incredible.
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
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