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Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#175
Posted: 12/4/14 at 8:29amIt would be wonderful to see Paulo Szot in anything but doesn't Roscoe have to be a tenor? The guys who sang those songs while the girls paraded around always had high voices.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#176
Posted: 12/4/14 at 9:36amI feel like most people who make dream cast lists don't know this show at all.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#177
Posted: 12/4/14 at 10:08am
Sally- Emma Thompson
Phyllis- Michelle Pfeiffer
Ben- Robert Downey
Buddy- Martin Short
Carlotta- Goldie Hawn
Stella- Darlene Love
Hattie- Angela Lansbury
Solange- Charlotte Gainsbourg
The Whitmans- Don Correia and Sandy Duncan
Heidi- Kiri Te Kanawa
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#178
Posted: 12/4/14 at 11:01amNice list, Madbrian, but nix on Goldie Hawn. She used to be good but, sadly, she's become one of those overly surgeried creepy robots.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#179
Posted: 12/4/14 at 11:54am
@madbrian That's a great list but I think Thompson would be a great Phyllis.
@Phyllis I have seen the show and I know what I'm thinking when it comes to dream casting like this, plus the term DREAM casting is just wishful thoughts anyway, so I don't see the problem.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#180
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:13pmI love the idea of Darlene Love as Stella.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#181
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:23pm
"Nice list, Madbrian, but nix on Goldie Hawn."
Perhaps Midler instead?
"@madbrian That's a great list but I think Thompson would be a great Phyllis."
I could see her in either role, but I found Sally more difficult to cast.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#182
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:27pm
Well, Julia Roberts, OBV
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#183
Posted: 12/4/14 at 12:29pm@madbrian That's true, but I think Amy Adams (once she looks the part) has the vocal power and the smart skills to pull off Sally more than any other actress working in film today. Emma Thompson's performance as Mrs. Lovett was so good to the point where she is my second choice for Phyllis other than Kate Winslet who does have the right skills to be a really good Phyllis and it can finally give Winslet a musical film which she's always wanted.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#184
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:09pm
Amy Adams - Sally
Emma Thompson- Phyllis
Buddy - John C. Reilly
Ben- Hugh Jackman
Carlotta - Meryl Streep
Stella- Darlene Love
Hattie- Kathy Bates
The Whitmans- Bernadette peters and Mandy Patinkin
Solange- Patti Lupone
Updated On: 12/4/14 at 01:09 PM
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#185
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:24pmI'm in love with the idea of Michelle Pfeiffer as Phyllis. It wouldn't tax her vocally too much and she'd act the hell out of it and look fantastic at the same time.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#186
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:32pmYou can't cast Angela Lansbury as Hattie. She's not a Broadway baby--she's a West End baby.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#187
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:48pm@PalJoey Jayne Houdyshell should play Hattie in the movie, she did great in the 2011 revival.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#188
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:54pmRegarding Follies, I respect PJ's opinion enough to kick the five-time Tony winner Ms. Lansbury to the curb for not being a "Broadway Baby". Fine, Lansbury is out, replaced by Kathy Bates.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#189
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:55pmJayne, at least, is a broad. Angela is a lady. She's 100% wrong in every way for Hattie.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#190
Posted: 12/4/14 at 1:57pm
O my
Kathy Bates as Hattie would be ahmazing.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#191
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:00pmI would rather have Kathy Bates as Stella, she has the huge presence and the voice to do it. I'd like to think of this casting as a reunion for Bates and Marshall (for Bates played Miss Hannigan in the 1999 TV adaptation of ANNIE).
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#192
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:02pm
My updated cast:
Sally- Emma Thompson
Phyllis- Michelle Pfeiffer
Ben- Robert Downey
Buddy- Martin Short
Carlotta- Bette Midler
Stella- Darlene Love
Hattie- kathy Bates
Solange- Charlotte Gainsbourg
The Whitmans- Don Correia and Sandy Duncan
Heidi- Kiri Te Kanawa
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#193
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:13pmI really see John C. Reilly as Buddy. Idk why, but I think he'd have an amazing "Buddy's Blues."
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#194
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:14pm
Sorry, I don't know in what world Emma Thompson would fit any of Sally's personality traits. I think Amy Adams is a great fit, and since there's no chance this will ever come to pass in the next decade, by 2024 she'll be the perfect age too.
Emma Thompson could do a mean Carlotta though.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#195
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:22pm
@Someone in a Tree2, make-up could do many wonders these days, they could give Adams more lines on her face to make her appear older than she is (40).
@icecreambenjamin, Reilly has a great singing voice but I would love to have a Buddy (for once) who's physically fit to dance his butt off like no tomorrow. That's the reason why I think Nathan Fillion could pull it off.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#196
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:24pm
I see Emma Thompson as Phyllis. We know she can play a crumbling b!tchy woman and she could easily sing that role.
I think that Michelle Pfeiffer may be too b!tchy as Phyllis and may come off as far too unlikable.
Does Buddy need to really dance? I always saw him as being played by someone with a comedic vaudeville dancing style kind of like Joel Grey in Cabaret.
Updated On: 12/4/14 at 02:24 PM
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#197
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:32pmSure it may not be "required", but I would love to have a dancing Buddy like the original Gene Nelson. Sure it's going to be compared but it could be really good that the comparison starts to vanish.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#198
Posted: 12/4/14 at 2:35pmOutside-the-box suggestion for Buddy: Donny Osmond.
Rob Marshall to Bring FOLLIES to the Big Screen?#199
Posted: 12/4/14 at 3:16pm
My dream cast, with more "realistic" (but still good) choices in parenthesis:
Sally - Bernadette Peters (Toni Collette)
Phyllis - Donna Murphy (Jane Krakowski)
Ben - Richard Gere
Buddy - Brent Carver or Kevin Anderson
Roscoe - Michael Crawford
Whitmans - Betty Buckley and George Hearn
Solange - Michelle Pfiffer
Hattie - Barbara Harris
Stella - Tonya Pinkins (Queen Latifah)
Carlotta - Patti LuPone (Jennifer Holliday)
Heidi - Barbara Cook
Toni Collette is such a fantastic actress I think she could play both Sally and Phyliss, but I would rather have her show her softer side than playing "T" or "Queenie".
Can you imagine a younger Barbara Harris as Sally?
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