So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
#0So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:21pm
https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=6641
What do you guys think? It has been talked about for months, but now official.
I'm glad the show will have life on tour. And I hope it comes to the NJ/PA area, so I can see this.
Too bad they didn't have Ringwald replace Christina on Broadway for a few months, it would've given her nice practice for the tour. Oh well. Atleast the show is still alive.
Updated On: 1/4/06 at 03:21 PM
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#1re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:24pmYou know the tour was actually planned before it opened on Broadway - here in San Francisco we all got adverts with Marissa Tomei in the lead and the tour was scrapped.
#2re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:28pmMolly will be great. She's PERFECT for the role.
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#3re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:28pmI love Molly Ringwald, but I've never heard her sing. Is she any good?
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#4re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:31pm
She is good. I worked with her in Sacramento doing community theater when we were kids. She is a lot of fun!
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#5re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:38pmI don't want this to sound terrible but it will... i hope she loses a few pounds before the tour, unless she is gonna wear the corset she wore during cabaret!
#6re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:40pmMakes much more sense than Britney, that's for sure.
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SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#7re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:41pmI truly believe she'll be able to pull this off. Break a leg, Molly!
#8re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:44pm
Atleast Charity will be back to a redhead!! 
#9re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:52pm
You KNOW I will be there to see it, lijay!
and MEF, why is Ringwald perfect for the role, but you hated Applegate? As far as I know, Ringwald has no singing or dancing experience past Applegate's.
#10re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:52pm
Sounds like great casting. And being nowhere near NYC, I'm all for great casting on tours. 
#11re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:53pm
I too am excited.
I think she'll be wonderful.
I hope it does come to the NJ/PA area.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#12re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:56pm
Can she dance?
(I guess that's an impertinent question because dancing in a Fosse show is no longer required).
#13re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:57pm
You worked her, huh? 
#14re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:07pm
Just Me-
I didn't hate Applegate. I didn't like her, but I didn't hate her.
Per Ringwald, I thought she was wonderful in CABARET. She actually has a really good voice and dances well enough. Plus, I think she'll act the hell out of the part.
#15re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:08pm
I still want to know why Molly Ringwald is instantly accepted here in the role of Charity, while some people on this very thread complained about Applegate taking on the role.
It's still a dancing, singing and acting role. What changed your mind?
#16re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:11pmBecause Ringwald has proven she has the chops to do it.
#17re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:12pm
And so has Christina...
Thanks MEF!
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#18re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:13pmIt might be that Ringwald had/has proven herself with her turn in Cabaret and Tick,Tick, Boom. Until Charity Applegate was an unknown in the theater. Personally - I love Applegate - but that's just me.
#19re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:14pm
Yes I agree that Christina has proven herself. But no one knew if she could do it before they saw her.
The reason people are accepting Ringwald so quickly is because she's already established herself as someone who can handle a role like this.
#20re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:14pmno..I'm just me.
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#21re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:15pmLol! I know I thought that as I hit the post button!
#22re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:20pm
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't recall Ringwald ever doing Fosse dancing. Was her singing in Cabaret that good? I never heard her or saw the show with her. I know she can act.
insert "but there's no choreography in this version of Sweet Charity" joke here.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#23re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:20pmWhere doers it say this is a tour?
#24re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:21pmHer singing was really good in CABARET and in TICK TICK BOOM. She belted the hell out of "Come to Your Senses" from the latter show.
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