Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?

[mywonderwa11]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#1

Posted: 8/21/10 at 12:33pm

I did a search and didn't see anything posted about this...
I would love this

"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"

[tazber]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#2

Posted: 8/21/10 at 12:35pm

HOLY CRAPOLA!

I love Ruthless! I can't see it on bway though.

But I would love if it gave it a shot.

....but the world goes 'round

[Jon]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#2

Posted: 8/21/10 at 1:06pm

I don't see Biel as the mother of a 9 or 10 year old.

[dramamama611]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#3

Posted: 8/21/10 at 3:00pm

Well...she's nearly 30 -- so not impossible at all.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[B3TA07]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#4

Posted: 8/21/10 at 3:18pm

I do. She has that 'knocked up right out of high school' kind of look.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[muscle23ftl]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#5

Posted: 8/21/10 at 3:21pm

Yet, it's ok for a 62yo to be the mother of a 12yo girl in the old age?

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[mywonderwa11]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#6

Posted: 8/21/10 at 3:39pm

I agree with B3 Haha

"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"

[dramamama611]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#7

Posted: 8/21/10 at 3:54pm

Muscle -- what does that even mean?

There are PLENTY of 30 year olds with 9 or 10 year old kids. Sadly, there are lots younger that do, too.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#8

Posted: 8/21/10 at 9:45pm

I'm assuming Muscle is referring to either Bernadette, who is 62, playing a character who has a 14 year old daughter. Either that or Patti, who was pushing 60 when Gypsy opened, having daughters who were both supposed to be under 10 years old at the beginning of the show. I'm guessing he was trying to point out the hypocrisy of saying how somebody can't see a 30 year old having a 9 or 10 year old daughter, yet we seem to accept that some of these older actresses are playing characters with children that they would most likely have not have been able to conceive in real life given their respective ages.

[givesmevoice]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#9

Posted: 8/21/10 at 9:48pm

I do. She has that 'knocked up right out of high school' kind of look.

wow. really?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[dramamama611]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#10

Posted: 8/21/10 at 9:55pm

Um....hate to tell him/you....it's not anywhere beyond the realm of possibility for a woman in her late 40s/early 50s to have kids. (Which would make her early to mid 60s 14 years later.) Trust me, I'm 47 and still have to be conscientous to NOT have more kids. And according to the doctor: I'll probably have to do so for as many as another TEN years.

I know a good number of women that started having kids in their 40's. Funny how society has changed the perception. In fact, women in their later child bearing years are actually more likely to have a MULTIPLE birth.

But thanks for clarifying his post.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#11

Posted: 8/21/10 at 10:19pm

Wow, congrats on your ultra-fertility, dramamama, lol!

Let's face it though. I don't know what the actual numbers or statistics are, but even in today's society a woman in her mid to late 40s having a child is still seen as far more the exception to the rule rather than the norm.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#12

Posted: 8/22/10 at 12:18am

Joan Ryan should play it again.

Period.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[tazber]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#13

Posted: 9/5/10 at 3:06pm

I was just reading about the original New York production on wikipedia and I noticed Marvin Laird did not receive a Drama Desk nomination for his music although Joel Paley not only got one for his lyrics, but won.

Isn't that odd? Has that ever happened before?

From Wiki:

Drama Desk Awards:
Laura Bundy -- Outstanding Actress - Musical (nominee)
Donna English -- Outstanding Actress - Musical (nominee)
Joel Paley -- Outstanding Director - Musical (nominee)
Joel Paley -- Outstanding Lyrics (winner)
"Ruthless" -- Outstanding Musical (nominee)


Wiki link

....but the world goes 'round

Updated On: 9/5/10 at 03:06 PM

[into_the_woods2]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#14

Posted: 9/5/10 at 10:46pm

what makes anyone think Jessica Biel has the comedic chops for this role?!
no offense to her, she's a great actress, and very beautiful, but I definitely do not see her doing such a slapstick show.

"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch

[Borstalboy]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#15

Posted: 9/6/10 at 1:02pm

Two words: Missi Pyle.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[TheatreDiva90016]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#16

Posted: 9/6/10 at 1:33pm

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That would be all kinds of brilliant!

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[B3TA07]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#17

Posted: 9/7/10 at 3:46am

"wow. really?"

Yep. I think it's because I always connect her with her role on 7th Heaven, and I always expected that character to get pregnant..............but then God would save her

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[gotham girl]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#18

Posted: 9/7/10 at 11:28am

comedy doesn't come to mind when i think of Jessica Biel. then again, neither does good acting. oh well.

i second everthing dramamama611 said. my mom was 45 when she had me and that was 30(ish) years ago.

“Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough.”

[somethingwicked]

Ruthless to come to Broadway with Jessica Biel?#19

Posted: 9/7/10 at 11:34am

Jessica Biel is in no way involved with the reading taking place this month.

I swear- sometimes, Broadway World will use anything to generate a story.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.