PERFECT Casting Game- Page 9

[henrikegerman]

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

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

[henrikegerman]

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

sorry, forgot to advance:

Pauline Collins

[henrikegerman]

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]

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?

[henrikegerman]

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

Sigourney Weaver as Tiny Alice

Alan Rickman?

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/25/11 at 10:18pm

Alan Rickman as Barabbas in THE JEW OF MALTA.

Sinead Cusack?

[henrikegerman]

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]

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.

[henrikegerman]

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]

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?

[henrikegerman]

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]

Posted: 7/26/11 at 8:06pm

Juliet Stevenson as Phyllis Rogers Stone.

Kelsey Grammer?

[random person 112]

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

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

[BeingAlive2]

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

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

reeve carney?

[shrekster224]

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

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

Next: Karen Olivo

[ILuv2shop531]

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]

Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:34am

Jason Tam as Chip in Spelling Bee

Victor Garber?

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:48am

Garber as George in JUMPERS.

Judy Greer?

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:08am

Judy Greer as Brooke in Noises Off

Johnny Galecki?

[AC126748]

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?

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:27am

I think Kaitlin Hopkins would be a great Baker's Wife.

Geoffrey Rush.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:40am

Geoffrey Rush as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

Rachel York?

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:43am

Rachel York as Mrs. Wilkinson

Elisabeth Moss?

[AC126748]

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?

[givesmevoice]

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.