#251
Posted: 8/29/11 at 4:28pm
Channing and Zeta-Jones would both make a terrific Phyllis! With Zeta-Jones, you might finally have someone who can keep up with the boys during Lucy and Jesse.
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#252
Posted: 8/29/11 at 4:31pm
So that explains Zeta-Jone's angry "Send in the Clowns" at the Tony Awards!
She was auditioning to sing "Could I Leave You?"!
She was auditioning to sing "Could I Leave You?"!
#253
Posted: 8/29/11 at 4:45pm
LOL! I don't think anything could explain that "performance!" Bless her heart! She wasn't that bad in the show itself.
#254
Posted: 8/29/11 at 4:47pm
"With Zeta-Jones, you might finally have someone who can keep up with the boys during Lucy and Jessie."
Precisely what I was thinking! By the way, her Tony performance in no way represents what I saw from her on stage in Night Music-she was very good and I think she'd make a great Phyllis.
Precisely what I was thinking! By the way, her Tony performance in no way represents what I saw from her on stage in Night Music-she was very good and I think she'd make a great Phyllis.
#255
Posted: 8/29/11 at 7:16pm
Well, she checked into a hospital shortly after the Tony Awards and announced she is bi-polar. So was the telecast the manic or depressive phase?
(I'm glad to hear that wasn't representative of the show, because I love ALNM!)
(I'm glad to hear that wasn't representative of the show, because I love ALNM!)
#256
Posted: 8/29/11 at 8:44pm
Stockard Channing as Phyllis--inspired choice! Saw her in "Six Degrees" in the late 80s and she was fabulous. Invoking the "six degrees" concept, she is connected to Sorkin via West Wing. Meant to be?
#257
Posted: 8/30/11 at 10:25am
My votes:
Sally: Meryl Streep
Phyllis: Annette Bening
Solange: Judy Davis
Hattie: Betty White
Stella: Debbie Reynolds
Carlotta: Liza Minnelli
Heidi: Jane Powell
Sally: Meryl Streep
Phyllis: Annette Bening
Solange: Judy Davis
Hattie: Betty White
Stella: Debbie Reynolds
Carlotta: Liza Minnelli
Heidi: Jane Powell
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#258
Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:33pm
The thing is Annette Bening and Meryl Streep are 10 years apart in age. I think if this was to be successful (and again, not that I think there's a chance of this movie ever happening) the director would have to make a choice as to what age he wants to cast the four principals. If they go the Annette Bening route, the rest of the casting should be the same; if they go the Meryl Streep route then surround her with the likes of Glenn Close, Kevin Kline, Christopher Walken, etc.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#259
Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:38pm
Meryl is ageless! She was perfect as the 40 year old woman in Mamma Mia who grow up in both the 60s AND the 80s!
#260
Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:43pm
With technology the way it is, I see no reason why Meryl can't play all of Thr women in this movie. With computer animation the way it is, it really seems like the only logical casting choice.
#261
Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:44pm
Except Carlotta. That role has to be played by someone who has "really been there."
#262
Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:51pm
Oh, that's true. Can Peter North at least play Ben?
#263
Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:54pm
Only if Jewel De'Nyle plays Solange.
#264
Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:58pm
"Everyone's C*mming to see FOLLIES!"
-AVN
"This production shoots far!"
-Hustler
"Unlike the cast, FOLLIES doesn't suck!"
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-AVN
"This production shoots far!"
-Hustler
"Unlike the cast, FOLLIES doesn't suck!"
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#265
Posted: 8/30/11 at 1:15pm
I vote for Andy Serkis to play all the parts in motion capture, young and old.
"Follies: The 3D Experience"
Hopefully, it wouldn't look like that dreadful choo-choo movie where everybody had dead eyes. But maybe, in this case, that would be a good thing.
"Follies: The 3D Experience"
Hopefully, it wouldn't look like that dreadful choo-choo movie where everybody had dead eyes. But maybe, in this case, that would be a good thing.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#266
From left to right: Solange, Stella, Phyllis, Carlotta, Sally, Hattie
Posted: 8/30/11 at 1:21pm
From left to right: Solange, Stella, Phyllis, Carlotta, Sally, Hattie
#267
Posted: 8/30/11 at 5:24pm
I think Marcia Gay Harden could be a good Sally, but I don't know if she can sing.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#268
Posted: 8/30/11 at 7:47pm
Sally – Honestly have no idea whatsoever... Amy Adams comes to mind but she is only 37. and wait 10 years and half these other people could be gone or over the hill.
Phyllis – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Stockard Channing, Jane Lynch, Kim Cattrall, Nicole Kidman
Ben – Kevin Kline, Richard Gere, John Schneider, Mandy Patinkin
Buddy – Nathan Lane (ehh...it’s a thought...), John C. Reilly, Robin Williams
Carlotta – Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Lynch, Carol Burnett (maybe?)
Hattie – Kathy Bates, Shirley Temple(!), Carol Burnett, Betty White
Stella – Queen Latifah, Kathy Bates, Tyne Daly
Heidi – Julie Andrews. I know her voice is mostly gone, but if they lowered it and then did a clever transition into Young Heidi maybe it would work?
Theodore & Emily Wittman – Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
Dimitri Weissman – Christopher Plummer
Roscoe – José Carreras
Young 4 – Lea Michele, Heather Morris, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss
Max Deems – Burt Reynolds
Though the script would REALLY need revisions, plot additions, song cuts and adds to make it a good film. it is a perfect stage musical though. Casting would also depend on how old or young they want to go.
I could see Rob Marshall maybe taking this on, his style of doing the songs would really work here. Maybe going back to the "Girls Upstairs" plot ideas of murder mystery?
Phyllis – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Stockard Channing, Jane Lynch, Kim Cattrall, Nicole Kidman
Ben – Kevin Kline, Richard Gere, John Schneider, Mandy Patinkin
Buddy – Nathan Lane (ehh...it’s a thought...), John C. Reilly, Robin Williams
Carlotta – Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Lynch, Carol Burnett (maybe?)
Hattie – Kathy Bates, Shirley Temple(!), Carol Burnett, Betty White
Stella – Queen Latifah, Kathy Bates, Tyne Daly
Heidi – Julie Andrews. I know her voice is mostly gone, but if they lowered it and then did a clever transition into Young Heidi maybe it would work?
Theodore & Emily Wittman – Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
Dimitri Weissman – Christopher Plummer
Roscoe – José Carreras
Young 4 – Lea Michele, Heather Morris, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss
Max Deems – Burt Reynolds
Though the script would REALLY need revisions, plot additions, song cuts and adds to make it a good film. it is a perfect stage musical though. Casting would also depend on how old or young they want to go.
I could see Rob Marshall maybe taking this on, his style of doing the songs would really work here. Maybe going back to the "Girls Upstairs" plot ideas of murder mystery?
#269
Posted: 9/16/11 at 5:08pm
We will all be dead and in our graves before this becomes a movie.
#270
Posted: 9/16/11 at 5:10pm
Maybe you will, but I am living until 2215, at least!
#271
Posted: 9/16/11 at 6:45pm
Well, there won't be an intermission in this version!
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
#272
Posted: 9/17/11 at 3:08pm
Carol Channing as Hattie, please!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#273
Posted: 9/17/11 at 8:35pm
'By the way, her Tony performance in no way represents what I saw from her on stage in Night Music'
Absolutely! It's a shame really that now people think that she won the Tony for THAT performance, when in fact she was quite wonderful on the night I saw the show, which was a week or two before the Tonys.
If she really wasn't feeling that well, they should have ask Angela Lansbury to perform Liaisons instead.
Absolutely! It's a shame really that now people think that she won the Tony for THAT performance, when in fact she was quite wonderful on the night I saw the show, which was a week or two before the Tonys.
If she really wasn't feeling that well, they should have ask Angela Lansbury to perform Liaisons instead.
#274
Posted: 9/17/11 at 8:58pm
Have you guys seen Ms. Bening lately? Girlfriend is looking ROUGH. She could easily pass for 63.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#275
Posted: 9/17/11 at 10:28pm
A style somewhere between Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Ken Russell's The Boyfriend is what's needed.
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