Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton Foster
Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton Foster
#2Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton Foster
Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:48pmGlad to see it at last confirmed... what a great cast.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton Foster
Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:48pmI thought they were going to gt a real Hollywood star to play the part.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#3Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton Foster
Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:52pmWow, I can't believe the cast!!
#4Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton Foster
Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:55pmYeah, okay...officially buying tickets ASAP. Can't wait!
#5Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton Foster
Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:55pm
I don't think this is the type of show (or series) that needs a big Hollywood star to attract attention. I suspect many tickets go to subscribers, and decent single tickets have been unavailable for months.
The cast is quite exciting.
#6Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:57pm
Told ya so. 
#7Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 1:11pmPlease God, let there be a recording from this.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#8Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 1:36pmFor a variety of reasons, I'd more or less crossed this one off my list. But Raul's presence is enough to make me go to anything. Welcome back to musicals, Raul -- you've been sorely missed!!!!
BroadwayEd
#9Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 1:37pm
Yay!!! Perfect. His voice sounds like it was made to sing "Everybody Says Don't."
So excited for this.
#10Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 2:30pmOn a non-Raul related note. I really hope they include "There's Always A Woman" for Donna and Sutton!
#11Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 2:38pmSutton is now officially the star I'm least interested in seeing in this show. (although am still very excited for her, especially since Casey Nicholaw is directing.)
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
#12Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 3:10pmI'm so excited. This is going to be my first Encores! show, and I can't wait!
#13Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 3:17pmSO happy this was confirmed. CANT WAIT.
#14Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 3:39pmI second that, dear god please record this!
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#15Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 4:02pmHow disappointing. (Sorry, luvtheemcee)
-Benjamin
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#16Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 4:10pmI LOVE this. ACW is at the moment the show I'm looking forward to most! *Hyperventilates*
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#17Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 4:43pm"With So Little To Be Sure Of" is the number I'm most interested in seeing. I wonder if Raul and Sutton will have great chemistry, or if their voices will go nicely together? I hope so!
#18Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 6:19pmAt first I wasn't interested. I thought it too soon to erase memories of Bernadette, Madeline Kahn, Angela Landsbury and Scott Bakula. Now, I can't resist, and I took advantage of the discount code so I am stoked!!
#19Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 6:30pm
Very happy. I knew about this already but nice to see it official. And I don't need a personal apology if you don't feel the same way, haha.
Raul and Sutton sound nice together. I'll be curious to see what their chemistry is like in a different kind of show than Leap of Faith.
#20Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 6:38pm
When Sutton was first announced for this show, I felt kind of blah about it.
Then when the rumors about Harriet Harris joining her were circling, I was thinking that this was going to be dreadful.
Then Donna Murphy joined instead and I was elated.
Now that Raul has been added to the cast, I think this could stack up to be one of the best Encore! ever.
Totally looking forward to this - I may see it more than once...and yes, I too hope that it is recorded.
#21Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 6:41pmMan, those Harriet Harris rumors were SCARY!
#22Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 7:37pmSince I already have a ticket to this (and pretty much planned most of my upcoming trip around it), I couldn't be happier about the casting. I literally just did a happy dance around the room. Yes, literally. So far speed-the-plow is the only time I've seen Esparza. Finally, I get to see him in a musical! The fact that it's another Sondheim musical just makes me even giddier.
rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
#23Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 7:45pmWould it be wise to send to the City Center while Anyone Can Whistle is playing to get my Rocky Horror Show Playbill signed by Esparza? I don't want to my Playbill get lost in the mail. :/
#24Raul Esparza Joins Encores! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Donna Murphy & Sutton F
Posted: 3/17/10 at 8:12pm
I feel like the bigger problem with that is that it's a very short run. You'd have to be sure it got there in time, and with enough time for him to send it back. I think you'd be better off waiting until he's in a show with a longer run.
I need to get a ticket still. I was putting it off until I was sure about this -- hopefully I haven't waited too long. I'm trying to decide if I want to see it more than once, which I'm sure I'd like to do, but it might be overkill with such a short run. I'm BEYOND ready to see him do a Sondheim show again.
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