Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
#1Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/1/08 at 9:53pm
Ok, fun idea for a casting thread.
Who are your favorite Broadway actors/actresses and what role are you dying to see them headline in amajor revival?
They don't even have to be your favorites, just as long as you can really see them in a certain role.
For me:
Christine Ebersole in "Mame"
Leslie Kritzer in "Funny Girl"
Christopher Fitzgerald in "How to Succeed..."
Sutton Foster in "Me and My Girl"
Laura Bell Bundy in "Once Upon a Mattress"
this one's a bit out there, but Megan Mullaly in "Anything Goes"
Laura Benanti in "My Fair Lady"
Mara Davi in "Crazy for You"
catch me? doesn't have to be women, i'm justa diva fan.
heathurrr
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/06
#2re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/1/08 at 10:18pmI really would like to see Patrick Wilson as John Proctor in 'The Crucible'.
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Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
(My avatar? Why, yes! That is Laura Benanti making out with a chick!)
Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
(My avatar? Why, yes! That is Laura Benanti making out with a chick!)
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#2re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/1/08 at 10:21pm
Donna Murphy - Anything Goes
Donna Murphy - Gypsy
Reba - Anything Goes
Christine Ebersole - Mame
Stephanie J. Block or Leslie Kritzer - Funny Girl
Patti LuPone - Witch (Into the Woods)
Not really a star vehicle, but Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music.
Updated On: 6/1/08 at 10:21 PM
MovieGuy1031
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/06
#3re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/1/08 at 10:23pmLOVE the thought of Laura Benanti in 'My Fair Lady'!
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- Eeyore
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#4re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/1/08 at 10:24pm
MEGAN MULLALY - Anything Goes
GAVIN CREEL - John & Jen
LAUREN KENNEDY - Wicked (Elphaba)
KRISTIN CHENOWETH - Into the Woods (Witch)
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
#5re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 12:44amI thought about megan mullaly in "Anything Goes" myself. She'd be great.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#6re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 12:55am
Raul Esparza as Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire or Jack in Reefer Madness.
That's all I have for now.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
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Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#7re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 12:55amDouble post, sorry.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
Updated On: 6/2/08 at 12:55 AM
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#8re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 12:57am
I would have loved to see Patti LuPone as Desiree in A Little Night Music, but I think she's too old now. maybe in a few years as Madame Armfeldt.
Beth Leavel in Hello, Dolly! or Mame, perhaps.
I second the idea of Laura Benanti in My Fair Lady.
David Hyde Pierce in The Music Man. and even though I'm not a huge fan, I'd like to see Kelli O'Hara as Marian.
can I say Donna Murphy and Vicki Clark in Follies? it's been done and I saw it...but it really needs to be mounted for Broadway.
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Posted: 6/2/08 at 1:03am
Bernadette Peters as Desiree Armfeldt in A Liitle Night Music
Bernadette Peters as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd
Christine Andreas as MAME in Mame
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
broadwayrob
Featured Actor Joined: 4/14/08
#10re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 1:08am
alice ripley in sunset. in about 6 or 7 years.
yeah .
anything you do let it come from you and it will be new.
#11re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 2:03am
Stephanie J Block – SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING
Stephanie J Block – PROMISES, PROMISES
Faith Prince – MAME
Brian Stokes Mitchell & Audra McDonald - PORGY AND BESS
Robert Downey Jr – FIORELLO!
Debra Messing – WILDCAT
Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MaCLaine & Chita Rivera – 70 GIRLS, 70
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#12re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 2:06am
Cate Blanchett in MEDEA (or anything really)
#13re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 2:56am
dayao, Downey Jr. in Fiorello! is very inspired casting.
Also, forgot to say earlier, Bernadette Peters in "Hello, Dolly!" - something she's been rumored to do for YEARS.
#14re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 3:44am
Donna Murphy- GYPSY
Donna Murphy- KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN
Laura Benanti- MY FAIR LADY
Jane Krakowski- MACK & MABEL
Meryl Streep (as Cora) and Jane Krakowski (as Apple)- ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
Bernadette Peters- MAME
Bernadette Peters- HELLO, DOLLY!
Neil Patrick Harris- CURTAINS
Neil Patrick Harris (as Bobby), Donna Murphy (as Joanne)- COMPANY
Neil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski- SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Anika Noni Rose- SEESAW
Anika Noni Rose- PROMISES, PROMISES
Debbie Gravitte- SEESAW
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Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:42amHaving heard him sing "Gethsemane," I'm going with Hugh Panaro in "Jesus Christ Superstar." With Ron Bohmer as Judas and Nikki Renee Daniels as Mary Magdalene.
Hiram
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/06
#16re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 6/2/08 at 9:29amMarin Mazzie as Mame and Beth Leavel as Vera Charles. Actually, Ms. Leavel could play either role.
#17re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 10:16am
David Hyde Pierce as Bill in Hollywood Arms, and as Mack in Mack and Mabel.
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Updated On: 9/26/08 at 10:16 AM
#18re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 2:30pm
Raul Esparza - Matt in "Talleys Folly"
Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes as the Aunts in "Arsenic and Old Lace"
Neil Patrick Harris the title role in "Amdeus"
Rosemary Harris in anything.
#19re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 2:38pm
Hugh Panaro as the Baron and Leigh Ann Larkin as Flemmchen in Grand Hotel
PUT IT ON BROADWAY NOW!!!
Patti Lupone as Mame or Dolly (and Im not even a dolly fan)
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
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"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#20re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 2:46pmFor all of them: NEW VEHICLES!!!
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#21re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 2:47pm
Stephanie J. Block in Funny Girl
Laura Benanti in My Fair Lady or Passion
LaChanze in Gypsy
Julia Murney in Into the Woods
#22re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 4:18pm
I reallt want to see an all african-american cast for gypsy
La Chanze - Madame Rose
Anika Noni Rose - Louise
Norm Lewis - Herbie
I really think it would be a cool idea.
another one I really would like to see has been mentioned before:
Christine Ebersole - Mame
#23re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 7:02pm
Christine Ebersole, Liza, Barbra and Meryl Streep as Norma Desmond in SUNSET BLVD.
Liza Minnelli(A few years ago) and Catherine Zeta Jones as the Spider Woman/Aurora in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Jennifer Hope Wills as Clara in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Amy Spanger as Val in A CHORUS LINE
Judy Kuhn as Emma in SONG & DANCE
Charlotte D'Amboise as Angel in THE RINK
Mandy Patinkin as Molina in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Kelli O'Hara as Eileen in WONDERFUL TOWN
Kelli O'Hara in THE APPLE TREE
Anne Hathaway as Louisa in THE FANTASTICKS
Cheyenne Jackson as Jesus in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
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Updated On: 9/26/08 at 07:02 PM
#24re: Star Vehicles for your favorite stars
Posted: 9/26/08 at 9:46pm
Patti LuPone in PALIN!: the Musical Spectacular
What? It has been said that she has great success playing unlikeable characters.
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