Sondheim Talks FOLLIES Movie Musical- Page 11

[ComingUpRoses2]

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.

[Gaveston2]

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?"!

[ComingUpRoses2]

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.

[dreaming]

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.

[Gaveston2]

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!)

[Miranda3]

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?

[Mister Matt]

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

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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!

[Jordan Catalano]

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.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:44pm

Except Carlotta. That role has to be played by someone who has "really been there."

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:51pm

Oh, that's true. Can Peter North at least play Ben?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/30/11 at 12:54pm

Only if Jewel De'Nyle plays Solange.

[Jordan Catalano]

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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[best12bars]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/11 at 1:21pm

From left to right: Solange, Stella, Phyllis, Carlotta, Sally, Hattie

[MrMidwest]

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.

[SondheimFan5]

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?

[redmustang]

Posted: 9/16/11 at 5:08pm

We will all be dead and in our graves before this becomes a movie.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/16/11 at 5:10pm

Maybe you will, but I am living until 2215, at least!

[pinoyidol2006]

Posted: 9/16/11 at 6:45pm

Well, there won't be an intermission in this version!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/17/11 at 3:08pm

Carol Channing as Hattie, please!

[Will42]

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.

[AC126748]

Posted: 9/17/11 at 8:58pm

Have you guys seen Ms. Bening lately? Girlfriend is looking ROUGH. She could easily pass for 63.

[henrikegerman]

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.