Roles you WISH people would play- Page 5

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 1:58am

It just occurred to me but Donna Murphy as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf. OMG what I wouldn't give...

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 2:39am

"Still holding out for Leslie Kritzer and Patti LuPone in "The Rink." "

A- freaking- MEN!

Also, Merrily We Roll Along with Sutton Foster as Mary, Hunter Foster as Charley, and maybe Christian Borle as Franklin Shepard?! And Jen Cody as Gussie! Oooh.

[westcoast_wannabe]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 4:22am

I always thought David Hyde Pierce and John Goodman would be beyond perfect for The Odd Couple.

[AngActing]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 12:26pm

Tim Curry -- 'The Wizard' in "Wicked"
" " -- 'King Arthur' in "Camelot"
" " -- 'Don Quixote' in "Man of La Mancha"
Indina Menzel -- 'Lady of the Lake' in "Spamalot"
Alan Rickman -- 'Salieri' in "Amadeus"

Updated On: 11/8/07 at 12:26 PM

[philcrosby]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 1:09pm

Meryl Streep as MAME
Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce in THE PRODUCERS

[Lil_little_edie942]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 2:23pm

"Still holding out for Leslie Kritzer and Patti LuPone in "The Rink." "

I love you. I would've NEVER thought of that!

And, Laura Michelle Kelly in ANYTHING! I mean the Sweeney movie, yes, but how about hopping over the pond sometime?
Even if it's to do Mary Poppins (which I doubt will happen).

[Eponine3]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 3:50pm

This is such a fun thread!

I have been saying for a long time that Emily Skinner needs to play the Lady of the Lake in Spamalot. She would be great!

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 5:33pm

Meryl Streep as Madame Rose
TONYA PINKINS!!! as Madame Rose

[steven22]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 6:56pm

Karmine Alers- Elphaba- Wicked
Julie Hanson- Glinda- Wicked

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 11/8/07 at 8:11pm

Annaleigh Ashford: Audrey-Little Shop of Horrors.

[JulesReverie]

Posted: 11/9/07 at 4:55am

Jennifer Saunder/Tracey Ullman- Madame Thenardier
Tim Curry- Thnardier
Anthony Andrews- Jean Val Jean
Zach Braff- Seymour
Brittany Murphey- Audrey

Julie Andrews-Mrs. Lovett(Just SO wrong and anti-typcasting, that it kinda makes it right)
Updated On: 11/9/07 at 04:55 AM

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 11/12/07 at 11:24pm

Hadley Fraser- Bobby Strong "Urinetown"


How perfect would that be?!

[maya5892]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 12:41am

"Some off the top of my head:

-Cheyenne Jackson as Gaston in Beauty and The Beast
-Jenn Gambatese as Janet Van Der Graff in Drowsy Chaperone
-Christian Hoff or Daniel Reichard as Corny Collins in Hairspray "

Was All Shook Up on your mind, or something?

[artsamore]

Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:53am

Have to get in on this......

Brian Stokes Mitchell - Sky Masterson - "Guys and Dolls"

Norbert Leo Butz - George - "She Loves Me"

Clay Aiken - Seymour - "Little Shop of Horrors"

Raul Esparza - Archibald Craven - "The Secret Garden"

James Marsden - Joe Gillis - "Sunser Blvd"

Hugh Jackman - Harold Hill - "The Music Man"

[Anti-Romanticist]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 7:55pm

I realized this thread has been dead for like a month, but I had to share this (totally odd) idea: Roger Bart as Lumiere in BatB. I don't know what made me think of this, it just popped into my head. I think he'd do a HILARIOUS accent though!

To whoever posted the twisted Julia Andrews casting of Mrs. Lovett--I LOVE IT! (Pun unintended.)

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 8:19pm

Sooner or later, Raul Esparza has GOT to do Sweeney Todd!

[elphabelle07]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:22pm

Christine Ebersole as Margaret in The Light In The Piazza
Anthony Warlow in POTO
Anneliese van der Pol as Fanny Brice
Taye Diggs as Coalhouse in Ragtime (maybe? meh. i dunno.)
Kate Winslet/Toni Collett (I'm sure I spelled that wrong...) as The Bakers Wife in Into the Woods

[jordangirl]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:34pm

It's old, but Eponine3, that is BRILLIANT!

I'd go back and see Spamalot for Emily. The other primary suggestion for Lady of the Lake on here would send me screaming in the opposite direction. I don't get the big deal about Orfeh. UGH.

Updated On: 3/29/08 at 07:34 PM

[jagfkb]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:38pm

More to my earlier list:

Kristen chenoweth: I second her as Elizabeth in YF, that part is written for her. Also, I could see her as a very different but interesting take on momma rose. Hell, I'd love to see EVERYONE as momma rose!

megan mullaly-ursula in LM, and one of the evil sisters in Xanadu. Oh, and Momma rose (Imagine, "I had a DREAM")

ethel merman(if she hadn't died yet)- lady of the lake in MPS. I'd kill to see her in that, OR ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT MATTER!!!! (and.. of wait, she IS rose)

julie andrews as edwin drood in... DROOD! She couldn't be momma rose, too nice. Well, maybe...(hey, angela lansbury was mrs. lovett, so why not?)

orfeh-I second her being in Spamalot, and she could really belt out Ursula in Little Mermaid. Maybe rose, but we'll see.

Harvey Fierstien-herbert in MPS. WHAT A LAUGH THAT'D BE!!!! and momma rose! (bringing new meaning to the phrase stage mother...)

[elphabelle07]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:40pm

orfeh would be so awesome in spamalot

[Anti-Romanticist]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:15pm

I don't know if he has enough singing ability to play him, but if he did, James Roday would make an awesome Pirelli. Or maybe a Dr. Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein, not Hunterstein).

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:19pm

Rose in Gypsy - IDINA!!!!

[shakejake6282]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:26pm

Bernadette Peters as Tess in Woman of the Year
Debra Monk as Mama Rose in Gypsy
Pattie LuPone in Mame
Sutton Foster or Marin Mazzie in Funny Girl
Sherie Rene Scott in Evita

Updated On: 3/29/08 at 09:26 PM

[shh282]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:53pm

I think I could see

Christian Borle be Corny Collins in Hairspray
Annaleigh Ashford be Ms Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Mille
Tamyra Gray be Velma in Chicago

[FuturePenny2]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:59pm

I think it would cool to see Kristin Chenoweth as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray

and Kerry Butler as Glinda in Wicked.. a little switch of the roles there lol.