Star Casting

[jess20882]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:06pm

If you could choose one or two characters currently on Broadway, and fill their roles with a huge celebrity, which character(s) would it be and who would fill their role(s)?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:10pm

The Producers:
Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce as Max and Leo
Larry David and David Schwimmer as Max and Leo

The Wedding Singer:
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore as Robbie and Julia


Not currently on Broadway:
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones in a revival of Private Lives

[jess20882]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:14pm

oooh good choices.
i always wished (and maybe they did and i just happened to miss it...) they did a parody of WICKED on saturday night live, with rachel dratch as elphaba and amy poehler as glinda.

[thejcm]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:19pm

Britney Spears and Madonna as Roxie and Velma in Chicago. Britney can sing just as well as Ashlee Simpson.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:38pm

Ricky Martin and That Spears Girl in Tthe Wedding Singer.

And Meryl Streep as Martin Short.

[Pippin]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 2:43pm

Steve Martin as Martin Short

Bea Arthur as Jean Valjean.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:46pm

i heart Bea!

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:05pm

Agreed on Bea.

[jess20882]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:10pm

on the bea arthur note - could you imagine casting any current broadway show with all of the golden girls??

bea arthur - edna turnblad
betty white - penny pingleton
estelle getty - tracy turnblad
rue mcclanahan - amber vontussle

oh i can see it now...

[bjh2114]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:20pm

Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke as Mary and Bert in Mary Poppins.

[jess20882]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 11:09am

another one i thought of -

halle berry and raven symone as celie and nettie in THE COLOR PURPLE (which is an incredible show, by the way...i think i'm gonna try and get a seat for friday night's show)

[jess20882]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 11:27am

somehow my roommate and i got on this topic last night...and we came up with...

mandy moore - EPONINE
abigail breslin - YOUNG COSETTE
robin williams and carol cane - THENARDIERS

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 11:39am

Anne Hathaway as Julia in The Wedding Singer or Epoinine in Les Miz.

Robin Williams and David Schwimmer as Max and Leo in the Producers.