Scary Casting

#1

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:10pm

With Halloween approaching, think about casting choices from hell

David Hassellhoff in Man of La Mancha ( or anything for that matter)

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Updated On: 10/10/04 at 12:10 PM

#2

re: Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:12pm

Kathy Lee Gifford as MAME.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#3

re: Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:12pm

Carol Channing as Belle.

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"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

#4

re: Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:13pm

LOL!

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#5

re: Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:16pm

Glenn Close as Amalia in SHE LOVES ME.

She wouldn't even make it through ONE performance, she'd pass out and need oxygen during "Vanilla Ice Cream" :)

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#6

re: Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:19pm

Stritch as Aldonza. "Look at the kitchen slut reeking of sweat"

ewwwwww

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"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

#7

re: Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:23pm

Hi Matt, :)

If Stritch played Aldonza, she would convince Don Quixote he was a fake and failure. "The Impossible Dream" Would Be Cut.

Show would end with muleteers "having their way" with Stritch. :)

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#8

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:28pm

Ryan Styles (of TV's "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" fame), as Carol Channing, as Roxie Hart!

"I'm gonna get meeee, a whole BUNCH of boyeeeesss!"

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"Life without music equals death."

#9

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:31pm

Hi Areinking fan, :)

Let me meake sure I understand:

Your scary cast is to have Ryan Stiles play Roxie Hart in CHICAGO as if he were Carol Channing?

If that's your point, that is not scaring!

IT COULD REPLACE SHOCK THERAPY!!!

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#10

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:33pm

Harvey Fierstein as Elphaba.

#11

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:36pm

Ann Reinking as Ann Egerman (sorry AReinkingfan, I'm a fan too.)

Harvey Fierstein as Guido Contini.

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#12

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:37pm

Patti LuPone as...Mimi.

#13

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:45pm

Mary Ethel - Ha ha ha! Wouldn't it be loverly? Tee hee.

Ahh Glebb...are you calling my Annie aged? lol Yeah. I guess the days of DANCIN's "Trumpet Solo" are gone. That's alright.

How about...

Lea DeLaria as Cassie in A CHORUS LINE? ("All she really needs is the music, and the mirror, and...")

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"Life without music equals death."

#14

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:46pm

Britney Spears as Eliza Doolittle.

#15

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:48pm

LOL... "I Strain in vain..."

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#16

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:50pm

oh wait--Harvey Fierstein as GLINDA!

#17

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:52pm

LOL! "Dearest darlingest momzie and popsicle."

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#18

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:52pm

Anne Reinking as Anne Egerman would be...strange, to say the least.

Staying with ALNM: Idina Menzel as Desiree.

#19

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:55pm

Hi DGrant, :)

Britney as Eliza? Oh please... she would capture nuances of character about as quickly as a 33 1/3 LP played at 16 1/2 speed (Remember?) :

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#20

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 1:04pm

Perhaps Simon Cowell could play Henry.

#21

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 1:07pm

Dgrant, :)

Perhaps your version of MY FAIR LADY could replace the death penalty.

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#22

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 1:29pm

Sarah Brightman as Effie White

#23

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 1:35pm

She would never be cast in that show. ALW didn't write it.

#24

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 1:44pm

Hey Governer... :)

What are you trying to do--mount the first production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC that failed?

(Except of course for that icky film version. Don't get me started on Elizabeth Taylor singing!) :)

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#25

Scary Casting

Posted: 10/10/04 at 1:45pm

Liz Taylor sang?!
now I'm scared