Princess Bride Cast Musings

Everyone's fav feel good movie finally making the jump to stage, I'm sure there'll be no shortage of opinions on casting...what do you guys think? Here's my early thoughts on it:

Westly - Matthew Morrison
Buttercup - Celia K.B.
Inigo - Hank Azaria
Humperdink - Christopher Sieber
Fezzik - Mark Kudisch

Wallace Shawn would be the film member I'd most like to see cast in the musical.

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By the time Guettel finishes writing this, O'Hara and Morrison will be too old to play those roles. He's a sloooooooooooooow writer.

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I think Julia Roberts' twins are up for a few roles.

Poor BMI. They often use in their class exercises shows which cannot (for various reasons, sometimes rights issues) be musicalized. One was the Princess Bride. Guess they'll drop that.

By the way, I've heard some absolutely inspired numbers from various BMI teams based on various scenes from PB. It practically begs to be musicalized.

Raul as Inigo.



Personally I'll be surprised if this ever sees the light of day.

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It's been suggested that things that seem to beg to be musicalized aren't the best choices to musicalize because the audience will tend to come in with more specific expectations. If they have no idea how something might work musically, they're more likely to follow the writers more openly.

It's a theory, anyway. I think it has some merit, though.

Hey and while we're at it....Chris Sarandon as Humperdinck...and hey Billy Crystal is almost old enough to play Miracle Max without any make-up!

Seriously...assuming this project comes to fruition in the next few years I could see maybe a Douglas Sills or Mark Kudisch as Prince Humperdinck and Kelli O'Hara as Buttercup. I could see Esparza as Inigo, although it would be hard to fill Patinkin's shoes (or get his image out of my mind). With Andre the Giant being such a unique individual, and that role tailored exactly for him--who could play Fezzik? Enormously huge, but still come accross sweet and innocent? Cheyenne Jackson? Burke Moses?

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I'm thinking more along the lines of Gavin Creel as Westly, but I agree that regardless of the Piazza connection, Kelli O'Hara definitely seems ideal for Buttercup---but clearly this won't be in motion for a while, so who knows!

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please no more dakota fanning!! she drives me nuts!

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See, I just read the book and wasn't overly impressed with the Westly character in general. He was too Gary Stu-ish for my taste. Which I realize is silly in a fairy tale, but still. Any old male ingenue with some charisma will do, I think, unless the character gained a personality in the movie.