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#4

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:03pm

Can we just cast Jane Lynch & be done with it?
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#7

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:12pm

MISS Hannigan.

Thank you.
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#9

Rosie is already campaigning for MISS Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:19pm

Allison Janney!!! YES. I personally think that would be perfect. As much as I hate ANNIE, Miss Hannigan is a great role and would love to see Janney in it.

I was only like 8 when the ABC TV movie version came out and I thought the woman that played Hannigan was Rosie. :) haha
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#10

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:19pm

Rosie would put more butts in the seats than all those ideas combined. They'd be an idiot not to cast her. Get Harvey to play rooster while you're at it. They do never do explain how he got that nickname, do they?
#12

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:22pm

They do never do explain how he got that nickname, do they?

I see what you did there.
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#13

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:22pm

Well, he does crow.
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#14

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:26pm

ROSIE??...GOD SAVE US ALL!!!

Andrea McArdle would be a good move, but only would appeal to theatre people understanding of the original cast of Annie...

Allison Janney could work, I can see her as a bitter old spinster.

Jane Lynch has a wide fanbase and appeal as the deliciously evil Sue Sylvester on GLEE...which means she's got singing chops. She'll be the ideal choice.
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#15

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:27pm

Ugh, what a terrible idea.
Janney would be great but my number one choice is Haydn Gwynne, unfortunately she isn't a name and it wouldn't be easy to bring her over again.
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Updated On: 7/29/10 at 02:27 PM

#17

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Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:32pm

It hardly matters. Something tells me this show is going to bomb.
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#18

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Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:09pm

"That woman" who played Hannigan in the ABC movie was Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates.
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#19

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:34pm

I would love for Allison Janney or Jane Lynch to play Hannigan, either would be great. I'd also love to see Beth Leavel or Carolee Carmello but unfortunately neither of them would get butts in seats. Just about anyone other than Rosie would probably make me happy though, I can't stand her.

Updated On: 7/29/10 at 03:34 PM

#20

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:45pm

It's a shame Broadway has to cast this way now. Nobody outside of a 10-block radius knew who Dorothy Loudon was in the original. Or Reid Shelton.

Somehow butts were in the seats. For many years.
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#21

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:46pm

The only reason to cast O'Donnell in this is because of marquis value, and frankly, I don't think thats at all what it used to be. I think Jane Lynch would very possibly be a bigger draw in 2012 than Rosie.
#24

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:59pm

I'm sure that the Glee conflicts will be too much for Lynch. Same issue with the proponents of Lea in Funny Girl...not to open that can of worms.
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#25

Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...

Posted: 7/29/10 at 4:00pm

Ultimately, I think the awful revival in the 90s in part proved casting a 'name' as Miss Hannigan is something of a mistake - Hannigan is a supporting role (despite Loudon winning a lead Tony for it) and it spoils the balance of the story when she becomes the inevitable emphasis instead of Annie and Warbucks. As Best12 pointed out, the show has played well for thirty years (including in a successful recebt non-Equity tour) without star casting it.

Watching the clips of McArdle in NC, she's clearly having fun with it, but I don't really think she's the best choice to do a revival on Broadway.

Updated On: 7/29/10 at 04:00 PM

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