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#1

Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 8:22pm

Just curious to see what people think. I think Betty'd be an amazing Desiree in A Little Night Music. I also think she should play Elenor in the Lion in Winter. Anyone else?
#3

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 8:28pm

Medusa.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#4

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 8:35pm

I agree with Eleanor of Aquitaine (sp?)and deffinately as Desiree,
Hey, what about Grizabella in Cats? (sorry, couldn't resist)
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
#6

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:00pm

Margaret in an Encores production of Carrie (hint,hint Encores people and Carrie composers who won't release the rights...)
www.isawearthlings.com
#7

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:02pm

Blanche in "Streetcar" co-starring Brett Cullen as "Stanley", and Judy Kuhn as "Stella".
#8

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:33pm

From what I've heard, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#9

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:35pm

They'd have to rewrite that production so that Jekyll is only 5% of the time.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#11

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:25pm

*in with the good air, out with the bad air*
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#12

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:27pm

The Acid Queen in Tommy
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#13

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:28pm

Definitely NOT Desiree -- I've seen her do it -- she was terrible -- that role requires someone warm, earthy and maternal -- the three things Betty Buckley is absolutely not.

Let's see, show's she'd be good for: The Marat/Sade, Nuts, The Mad Woman of Chaillot, and Crazy for You.
#15

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:33pm

I like the idea of her being the Mom in A New Brain.
Nothing too high.

Let's face it, she's not 50 anymore.

Sorry.

Anywho, listening to her "Infinite Joy" hurts my ears.
It's just not good belting.
And to make things worse, she's flat.

So, no more high Grizzabelt for Betty.
Soothing, low alto belt songs will suffice.
Thanks Betty.
Personally, I think I have too much bloom.
#16

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:35pm

In a few more years, perhaps Lilliane LeFleur in NINE. Or, she could play Louisa now in a senior citizens production of NINE at a dinner theatre in Cocoa Beach Florida.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#18

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:02am

I disagree. She would turn WORST PIES IN LONDON into a 16 minute song that would turn into her looking at her own reflection in her knife. I'm not a big fan of hers.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#20

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:04am

I think Betty is amazing. Though we all hear stories, I don't pretend to understand enough about her to pass judgements. She is who she is and who she is works.
#21

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:06am

Who she is works for who?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#22

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:06am

For the lines of people that pay to see her nightly at every engagement she's done for the past 20 years.

Updated On: 3/31/05 at 12:06 AM

#23

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:07am

Mama Rose at some point
Elaine Stritch in AT LIBERTY

Violet in THE FIX
Felicia in WITCHES OF EASTWICK

"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

#24

re: Roles Betty Buckley should play

Posted: 3/31/05 at 1:16am

marlomanners writes:
"Margaret in an Encores production of Carrie (hint,hint Encores people and Carrie composers who won't release the rights...)"

CAN I GET AN "AMEN"!?! Hehe...

Broadway Matt writes:
"Felicia in WITCHES OF EASTWICK"

When I first saw Witches of Eastwick, I kept picturing Buckley in the role!
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

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