Patti Lupone as Ursala in the Little Mermaid! what do you guys think???

with all this talk about the perfect out of this world role for patti lupone i thought ursala would be perfect for her. ursala is a big sex, loud, crazy and lusty woman everything patti would be perfect for!!!

i want emily skinner to play this role!!! which i hope she does, i just thought patti would be good in the role to!

what do you guys think??? :)

I love Patti and think there is nothing she can't do - so I think its a great idea.

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Does anyone think they'll have two different actresses to play Ursula and her "transformed" self?

Ursal absolutely cries out for Lea de Laria ... and then Eden S.

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If they are going to go with a name, ignore this suggestion. But from what I have heard of Kate Shindle at these benefit concerts - her beauty and belt would be great. Put that girl in a fat suit for the sea witch part and then let her beauty shine as the seductress. She's got that alluring but could be wicked look about her which definitely could read as evil.

Eric is bewitched by the voice. It's the voice he's heard before and has fallen in love with. Having that voice attached to an eligible and attractive romantic possibility, to Eric is what sends him over the deep end. I don't think Ursula ever puts a spell on Eric. I could be wrong...

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Patti can do ANYTHING.

i also think it would be funny to not have a young actress to play the younger ursala! and i bet patti would take the role if disney is going to pay her big buck!! and plus i heard ursala has like 5 songs for the stage musical!! between Patti LuPone and Emily Skinner i think either one would make a awsome ursala!!!

i kinda want emily to play the part because i think it would give here an even bigger name than what she has now and plus she would be AWSOME in the role!!!!! :)

Patti LuPone is entirely too much of a diva and entirely too full of herself to accept that role. Reading her commentary on playing Fantine in the original cast of Les Miserables absolutely disgusts me. She may be a talent, but why any producer or director would put up with such an uberb%tch is FAR beyond me.

she said that during rehearsals for the London production, the principals were informed that they would all have to take on ensemble roles throughout the show (with the obvious exceptions of Valjean and Javert). Ms LuPone said she informed them that she "doesn't do ensemble" and she was told that she would have to anyway. She conviently managed to miss rehearsals which would have placed her in the ensemble for scenes until she toook a vaction during the show's load in at the theatre. Whiel she was gone there was an alteration in rehearsal schedule and she was not aware. She walked into the auditorium mid rehearsal to find them rehearsing Eponine's death, which she knew to be one of the sccenes she would have to do ensemble work in. She says that she tried to duck out of the theatre without being noticed, but that one of the women on stage, who took issue with her "no ensemble" stance, saw hee and pointed her out and Ms. LuPone was forced to joi in teh rehearsal and become a member of the "Bullet Boys" on the barricade.. which she was NOT pleased with.

I found that in a letter that was posted on MS LuPone's website in repsonse to a fan's squestion.

Gosh, there sure are a lot of Patti haters on this board - its a shame - because she is so amazing.

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I really cannot believe that anyone has not thought of the one and only fabulous SHARON MCNIGHT.

Now there is our Ursula!

End of discussion.