Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 6:30am
Which little woman is gonna love tomorrow when she’s sent to summer school to play one of our favorite Broadway bad girls? Clearly there are worse things she could do.
http://www.broadway.com/gen/general.aspx?ci=536203
Alright, my guess is Maureen McGovern.
Updated On: 2/9/07 at 06:30 AM
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 7:15amThat would be Jenny Powers, who was Meg in Little Women, and plays Young Phyllis in the Encores production of Follies, where she sings "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow".
#2re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 7:45amYep, it's Jenny Powers. That actually makes me happy about Grease.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#4re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 10:17amwhy should she "must be good"?
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#5re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 10:23amWell if she sucked, they wouldn't have hired her. Hence, she must be good.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:06am
Brilliant Yankee!
No wonder I've loved your posts.
#7re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:16amMaureen McGovern as Rizzo. Wow. Just...where do I get a ticket!
#8re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:29amCould it be Sutton?
#9re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:30amIt's OBVIOUSLY Jenny Powers. The You're gonna love tomorrow part totally gives it away. Because she's playing Young Phyllis right now.
Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#10re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:30am
It could have been orfeh 
#11re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:37am
Jenny Powers played the bad girl to perfection in OF THEE I SING! at Encores. She'll be PERFECT Rizzo, and I might actually consider seeing the show now.
And, what a voice. The girl can sing her ass off.
#12re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:39amOh true...I'm not familiar with the show so I did not get the song line.
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#13re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:42am
"Well if she sucked, they wouldn't have hired her. Hence, she must be good."
I can name at least three to four horrible casting choices from EACH show currently playing on Broadway (the ones I've seen, anyway). Just because someone is cast in a show doesn't mean they are good (David Hasselhoff, anyone)!!
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#14re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:47amI'm convinced now that it's Jenny Powers, but my first instinct said Sutton Foster. Obviously, she was in "Little Women", but was also in "Annie" ("Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow..."), and had played in "Grease" before as Sandy, so Rizzo would be the perfect role for her to dive back into the show without repeating the experience. And plus, she's been in "Drowsy" for over a year now -- if it was the time for her to begin a new show, I'd guess that it would be now.
#15re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:51amSutton is WAYYY too big of a Broadway star now that she has been nominated for 3 Tonys. She would never perform as Rizzo.
#16re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:54amThere is no reason for sutton to leave Drowsy to go to Grease. The big hype in grease is going to be Danny and Sandy, Sutton is too big of a star to go into a show like that.
#17re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:56am
Sutton is too big of a star to go into a show like that.
- While Broadway fanatics know and love her. She is FAR from a big star outside of Broadway. She is not a household name at all.
But it's obviously not Sutton.
Updated On: 2/9/07 at 11:56 AM
#18re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:56amThat is actually not true. She said, after Little Women, that she really wanted to do some more featured work (which is why she took a supporting role in Drowsy). Whether she would take the part of Rizzo in this particular production is a different question all together. Oh, and yes it is Jenny Powers.
#19re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 12:13pmActually jewishboy, what she said is that she wanted to do more work in an "ensemble piece". Drowsy is just that...an ensemble piece. She would NEVER play a featured role to someone else's lead role. Even if she ends up doing Young Frankenstein, look at the size of her part there...
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#20re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 2:21pmLest ye forget that before Sutton Foster became SUTTON FOSTER!, she was a replacement Sandy in the last revival.
#21re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 2:24pmMichaelBennett, you just made me fall out on the floor in laughter.
JoMarch
Featured Actor Joined: 9/22/04
#22re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 2:26pmSutton also said she wants to focus on doing new musicals instead of revivals. So there's another reason why it clearly isn't her.
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#23re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 2:35pm
thank you Yankee.
are you seriously telling me that if a person is in a broadway show that they "must be good"? That casting agents/directors and producers who cast the show are all infallible and they make perfect casting choices each time? That every person in every role on broadway is good cause they are up there? A little realism please.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#24re: Rizzo's Been Cast - Another Wontorek Blind Item
Posted: 2/9/07 at 2:42pm
I do believe, and please correct me if I'm mistaken, that you're interpreting my phraseology in the wrong way. I mean "must be good" not as "she has to be good, she's in a Broadway show," but as "well, she must have some spark that made them hire her."
If you're interpreting it that way, then yes, I am telling you that if a person is in a Broadway show, they "must be good." 90% (+/- a few) of all actors are unemployed in that medium. They're waiting tables. They're dancing at Ellen's stardust. They're bartending. Etcetera, etcetera. Any actor in the 10% who has a job "must be good." Doesn't mean they actually are, but they have what casting directors wanted.
That's not to say that the people who don't have jobs aren't good. They just don't have what casting directors are looking for, for certain roles. If someone gets a job in a show that's as high-profile as the revival of GREASE, they must be good. For a show of this caliber (especially since they're hiring the 2 nobodies as chosen by the non-theatergoing American public), they're not going to take the risk of hiring someone who is unqualified for the part.
So yes, Jenny Powers must be good. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Updated On: 2/9/07 at 02:42 PM
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