Rick McKay's Broadway: The Next Generation

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 3:20pm

According to his website, www.broadwaythemovie.com, B:TNG is to be released Summer of 2005. That's just around the corner!

Already filmed are:

Jason Alexander, Alec Baldwin, John Barrowman, Bryan Batt, Jim Borstelman, Betty Buckley, Alan Cumming, Daisy Eagan, Tovah Feldshuh, Bonnie Franklin, Peter Gallagher, Joanna Gleason, Ruthie Henshall, Cady Huffman, Richard Jay-Alexander, Cherry Jones, Simon Jones, Isabel Keating, Michael John LaChiusa, Patti LuPone, Cameron Mackintosh, Audra McDonald, Matthew Morrison, Christine Pedi, Amanda Plummer, Lee Roy Reams, Ann Reinking, Liev Schrieber, Marc Shaiman, Douglas Sills, Mary Testa, Wendy Wasserstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, George C. Wolfe and Karen Ziemba. Filming is still in progress and release is tentatively slated for Summer ‘05.

I can't wait!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:38pm

Omg... Cant wait for that but where is Cheno and Idina and Chris and any Wicked cast member or Susan Egan or Sutton Foster or Hunter Foster?!

[bjivie2]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:44pm

MY question is why they interviewed Marissa. She's untalented. Not really. I'm just bitter that she won over Bernadette.

I'm sure there are more to come, there were 500,000 people on the Golden Age, so I'm sure there'll be much more for this one, especially since no one is old enough to die, really.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:45pm

Idina Menzel? Nahh.

Wouldn't mind Chenoweth and Egan and Foster and Foster.

But the REAL question is: WHERE IS JOEY FATONE?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:47pm

HaHa! Joey isnt so bad... I mean in Rent from what I heard he was okay but Little Shop... another story...

How about Jennifer Laura Thompson? Amazing replacement for Cheno in Wicked, so deserves to be in this

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:50pm

Oh yes, let's just have everybody in the cast of WICKED be in the film. It's the only way to make the Wicked-heads happy.

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:52pm

"MY question is why they interviewed Marissa"

A better question is "Where's Bernie?" She should definitely be there.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:56pm

Sorry... Im a Wicked-head at heart (like the icon didnt give it away?!) plus I liked JLT in Urinetown too...

Also... Where's John T or Stephanie from Avenue Q or Eden or Ramonafrom Brookyln...

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:59pm

Nathan Lane!!

[Plum]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:17pm

Sounds like a work in progress. And I doubt McKay would deliberately overlook people like Lane and Peters. They're only the top musical theater actors of our time. :) So if they don't show up in the end, it will be because they couldn't or wouldn't be interviewed or because of space constraints.

On the other hand- ClumsyDude, some of the people you name don't have a whole lot of lead credits to their name. I wouldn't call Brooklyn alone enough of a basis to have space in a documentary that has a limited running time. You'd really rather have understudies and replacements in the film than actual, oh I don't know...leads? Updated On: 2/22/05 at 07:17 PM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:19pm

In addition, it's THE NEXT GENERATION. Not GOLDEN AGE II.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:20pm

He did talk about making a second Golden Age, didn't he?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:26pm

There IS going to be a GOLDEN AGE II. After NEXT GENERATION.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:29pm

Wonderful. :) Even though I have yet to see the first one.

[bjivie2]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:55pm

They're actually missing quite a few people that should be on the list. The Fosters (Sutton and Hunter), Nathan Lane, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenowith, Heather Headley, Lillias White, Susan Egan, Alan Cumming, Mandy Patinkin, Lea Solanga, Jennifer Holliday, Bernadette Peters, Adam Pascal and MANY others.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:03pm

Alan Cumming is actually there, if it makes you feel any better.

[bjivie2]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:04pm

Well then WONDERFUL! Haha. I'm excited for this one. I'm sure there will be lots more footage than the previous one.

[TonyaFanatic]

Posted: 2/22/05 at 10:02pm

if youve ever seen the dvd there is a like 30 min sneak peak of the next feneration film. it drags a little, but its good. they talk to cady huffman about her experience with Bob Fosse in Big deal. very touching

[wildcat]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 9:07am

Mr. McKay would also have to use a certain amount of clairvoyance in choosing who to interview this time around. The people in GOLDEN AGE had proven track records, but who will be the stayers from this lot? How many of them will stick with the theater and how many will turn out to be one hit wonders?