So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

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So 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

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:24pm

You 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.

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:28pm

Molly will be great. She's PERFECT for the role.

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:28pm

I love Molly Ringwald, but I've never heard her sing. Is she any good?

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re: 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!

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Updated On: 1/4/06 at 03:31 PM

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:38pm

I 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!

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:40pm

Makes much more sense than Britney, that's for sure.

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:41pm

I truly believe she'll be able to pull this off. Break a leg, Molly!

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:44pm

Atleast Charity will be back to a redhead!!

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re: 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.

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Updated On: 1/4/06 at 03:52 PM

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re: 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.

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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.

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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).

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:57pm

You worked her, huh?

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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.

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re: 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?

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:11pm

Because Ringwald has proven she has the chops to do it.

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:12pm

And so has Christina...

Thanks MEF!

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:13pm

It 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.

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re: 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.

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:14pm

no..I'm just me.

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:15pm

Lol! I know I thought that as I hit the post button!

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re: 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.

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:20pm

Where doers it say this is a tour?

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re: So Molly Ringwald As Sweet Charity Is Official..

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:21pm

Her 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.