PERFECT Casting Game- Page 9

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#200

Posted: 7/25/11 at 6:28pm

Joan Allen as Ranevskaya and Anika Noni Rose as Varya in The Cherry Orchard

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#201

Posted: 7/25/11 at 6:29pm

sorry, forgot to advance:

Pauline Collins

[henrikegerman]

PERFECT Casting Game#202

Posted: 7/25/11 at 6:35pm

AC, 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.

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#203

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]

PERFECT Casting Game#204

Posted: 7/25/11 at 9:45pm

Sigourney Weaver as Tiny Alice

Alan Rickman?

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#205

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]

PERFECT Casting Game#206

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?

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#207

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]

PERFECT Casting Game#208

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?

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#209

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]

PERFECT Casting Game#210

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?

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#211

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]

PERFECT Casting Game#212

Posted: 7/26/11 at 9:15pm

Horace vangelder in Hello dolly to bernadette peters dolly.
Alice Ripley?

[BeingAlive2]

PERFECT Casting Game#213

Posted: 7/26/11 at 9:59pm

with vocal rest and about 15 years, i think alice could be mama rose

reeve carney?

[shrekster224]

PERFECT Casting Game#214

Posted: 7/26/11 at 10:52pm

Carney as Finch in How to Succeed. Maybe Gabe in N2N.

Next: Karen Olivo

[ILuv2shop531]

PERFECT Casting Game#215

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

[madbrian]

PERFECT Casting Game#216

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

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#217

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

[madbrian]

PERFECT Casting Game#218

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

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#219

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

[givesmevoice]

PERFECT Casting Game#220

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

[madbrian]

PERFECT Casting Game#221

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

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#222

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

[AC126748]

PERFECT Casting Game#223

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

[givesmevoice]

PERFECT Casting Game#224

Posted: 7/27/11 at 1:41pm

I'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