Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#1Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 7:56am
I know we all bitch about Hollywood personalities thinking they can do Broadway, but there are some who I think would do really well that should either come back after a very long absence or make their debut.
Zooey Deschanel - SOMEONE write her something good.
Meryl Streep - How is it she hasn't done a Broadway play since the '70s?
Selma Blair - She can actually sing. I think she'd do really well as either part in Chicago.
Jenna Fischer - Maybe I'm just in love with her, but she'd do great in something like Speed-the-Plow.
Zach Braff, John C. McGinley, any cast member of Scrubs - Yes please.
Rosario Dawson - I've said this often, but she could do very well in In the Heights.
Any other ideas?
#2re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 8:04am
Meryl Streep - How is it she hasn't done a Broadway play since the '70s?
Meryl Streep makes about $60 million dollars per movie.
She has no reason to come back to Broadway, work harder than she does in Hollywood, and make a fraction of that for it.
Not to mention that critics are a lot more harsh in NY than they are in Hollywood.
Streep was just here doing Mother Courage in Central Park last summer, and Ben Brantley gave her an insulting review.
She is the biggest movie star in America right now. She doesn't have to put herself through any of that nonsense.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#2re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 8:05am
And I suppose that applies to any of the Hollywood actors on your list.
Broadway is harder work, more to live upto, and a HELL of a lot less money.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#3re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 8:17amYeah, I wasn't talking about that aspect, I just meant I thought they'd be good on Broadway.
#4re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 8:29am
I think we need to cherish our theatre actors who have a passion for their craft that goes beyond the fame and fortune that can be achieved only in Hollywood.
There is a reason why brilliant actors like Elizabeth Marvel, Jan Maxwell, and Tovah Feldshuh aren't recognizable names beyond New York.
They work in the theatre because they are passionate about the work they do on stage and want to continue to have the opportunities to use their talents in that arena.
We don't need to be begging Hollywood actors to give Broadway their time of day.
There are thousands of incredibly talented, out of work theatre actors who actually want and long for a career performing on the stage.
Let's appreciate these performers and leave these opportunities open for them.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#5re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 9:45amHere here, Foster.
Avatar: JULIE "EFFING" WHITE, 2007 TONY WINNER. Thank God. I'm thinking about legally changing my name to Lizzie Curry...
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#6re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 9:59am
"Rosario Dawson - I've said this often, but she could do very well in In the Heights."
The girl can not belt at all. Even the mild key of 'Without You' had to be lowered because it was too much stress on her vocals. Even if they lowered the DIFFICULT keys of the songs, she probably could not handle doing it 9 times a week (as ITH does 9 shows).
Chathrine Zeta-Jones is more than welcome to come to broadway. Her performance in Chicago was top notch. She came after some BIG divas who have played that role and played it at their level. COME TO BROADWAY NOW!!!!!
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#7re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 10:06am
Michael Cera for a play would be cool.
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PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#9re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 10:27am
NO.
He did enough to Sweeney Todd.
Shannon Bo Dannon
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/08
#10re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 10:31am
Johnny's voice worked well in Sweeney Todd on film, but I don't think it'd work on stage.
I second Zooey Deschanel!!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 10:37am
Eric McCormack. He was absolutely brilliant in THE MUSIC MAN.
When I last spoke to him, he told me that "a new musical was in the works" for him. Haven't heard anything about it since.
Personally, I'd love to see him star as Mortimer in a musical version of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. Woould I be asking too much to have Carol Channing and Angela Lansbury as the Brewster Sisters?
#12re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 11:29am
Johnny Depp would be great in a play rather than a musical.
Updated On: 11/15/08 at 11:29 AM
#13re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 11:31amMichael Buble!!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#14re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 11:35amI know he's already been on Broadway..But, I would LOVE to see Michael C. Hall in a show.
CMoore
Leading Actor Joined: 8/17/07
#15re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 12:43pmI think with training and the right part, Kelly Clarkson could be amazing on Broadway.
#16re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 12:44pm
I'd love to see what Kate Winslet is like on stage.
Meryl likes her movies, but I wouldn't be surprised if one day she said she wanted to do a Broadway play. Or musical. I always expect something out of the ordinary from her.
~Steven
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#17re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:19pm
What about Ashley Judd? I'm sitting here watching her in Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood and have forgotten how wonderful she it. (Ellen Burstyn is no slouch either!)
I'd buy a ticket to whatever she was playing in!
#18re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:25pmOdds are after her Cat on a Hot Tin Roof production, she's not gonna come back for a while.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#19re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:43pmI forgot about that! (probably because I didn't see it!)
#20re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 1:55pm
Brantley did not particularly care for Meryl Streep's performance in MOTHER COURAGE but he was impressed by her nonetheless. He wrote in his review:
Ms. Streep finds her best Brechtian self in song. “The Song of the Great Capitulation,” which Mother Courage sings at the end of the first act, is one of the most artful and intense musical performances to be found on a New York stage, as Ms. Streep flutters, fights and wallows her way through her character’s philosophy of life (...) By the way, with every song she sings, Ms. Streep suggests that, in addition to endorsing vitamins, she could become a queen of the Broadway musical, should she ever choose.
He also wrote her a love letter when she did THE SEAGULL at Delacorte some years before MOTHER COURAGE in which he said she belongs on the stage.
I agree that she has no reason to come back to the stage, but I think she is incredibly brilliant. In the 70s she worked with Sondheim in THE FROGS, she did Brecht/Weill on Broadway, and she has done theatre on and off, mostly readings throughout the years (I believe she did a Charlie Kaufman play at St.Ann's Warehouse). I'd be delighted if she decided to do a show on Broadway, and I believe she has said that she would finally commit to a run on Broadway after her last kid went off to college.
#21re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 6:18pmJosh Groban. PLEASE!
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#22re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 6:34pm
I second the return of Michael C. Hall.
And I'd like to see Lee Pace in a broadway play.
Sondheim_Geek
Broadway Star Joined: 2/20/07
#24re: Stars Who Should Really Come to Broadway
Posted: 11/15/08 at 6:51pm
Lee Pace has done stage work Off-Broadway, so I'm sure he would probably do Broadway at some point. I for one would love to see Anna Friel back on Broadway, how I wish I had seen her in CLOSER.
I would also love for Kristen Bell to return to the NY stage, she is so fantastic. I'd love to see her star in a musical.
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