Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

#1

Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 10:19am

Judy Garland : "I'm Still Here"

Ann-Margaret c. 1963: "When You've Got it, Flaunt It"

Those two come to mind. Any more?

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#2

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 10:35am

for years and years i though JULIE ANDREWS would be perfect for the role of ANNA in THE KING AND I. then when she finally recorded the score with BEN KINGSLEY, she was a bit too old for it. but i still enjoy hearing her sing it once in a while.

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#3

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:00am

Melanie Griffith as Roxie Hart. I sure do wish she could have performed those songs!

#4

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:14am

Ethel Merman singing "Popular"

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#5

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:14am

I know this has now turned into Stars and SHOWS you wish they'd performed, so...
Carol Burnett in "Bells Are Ringing"

#6

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:37am

Apparently Anothony Rapp was extremely close to being emcee in Cabaret... that would have been interesting

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#7

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:38am

matt, i would LOVE to have heard that!

wildcat, what a great idea!

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#8

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:46am

Bernadette as Ms. Lovett(sp?)

#9

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:51am

-Mandy Patinkin as Dorothy in "Wizard of Oz"

-Lucille Ball as Ruth Sherwood

-B.D. Wong as Albin in "La Cage" (this one, I'm hoping will happen one day soon)

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"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

#10

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 11:56am

I'd like to have heard Mahalia Jackson sing The Gods Love Nubia.

#11

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:07pm

Angela Lansbury singing Defying Gravity...

#12

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:13pm

Shirley Temple singing June's "Let me Entertain You"

I LOVE the idea for Ann-Margaret. And yes, Julie would have been perfect in King and I. Waht about the girl who starred in the OffBway Fantasticks as Cinderella? Or a young Angela Lansbury as the Witch in ITW? (Got that idea from Bernadette as Lovett which sounds great, too)

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#13

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:16pm

Brian Stokes Mitchell as Tevy sing " If I were a rich man."

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Anthony Warlow in Camelot.
Stokes sings Camelot. Warlow sings " If ever I leave you."

#14

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:32pm

I would love to hear Patti LuPone's take on the score to Gypsy.

#15

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:32pm

JeffG...that's hilarious!

...and seriously. anyone else wanna hear Carol Channing sing "Defying Gravity" ?

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#16

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:56pm

Eva Cassidy in Mamma Mia
Ethel Merman as Tracy in Hairspray
Aretha Franklin as Aida
Joan Sutherland (or Anna Moffo) as Glinda
Bernadette Peters as Eva in Evita

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#17

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 3:16pm

James Barbour singing "Stars" from Les Mis.

...the thought is quite delicious, no?

Also: Roger Bart singing any of Seymour's songs from LSOH. Come on, how cute would that be?

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#18

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 3:18pm

yeah, I always think James Barbour will be a brilliant Javert!

#19

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 3:19pm

Yes, definitely! He's got the whole, as my friend puts it, "Baritone Powerhouse of Sound" thing going on...not to mention he's sexy as hell ^_^

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#20

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 3:26pm

and, he could add a bit of his personal touch in that role. Not only tough, strict,commanding, but also some synicism, bitterness, depression, like that.

#21

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 3:37pm

Yes, you hit it right on the head! He does have quite the knack for playing the brooding, angry guy.....^_^

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#22

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 3:57pm

Roger Bart singing any of Seymour's songs from LSOH.

As soon as I read that, I imagined him singing "Poor, all my life I've always been poor" and...okay, wow. That needs to happen right now. He's not busy, is he? Put him in the tour.

#23

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 4:05pm

Yes!! No one I know agrees with me, this is great! ...oh my, it would be fantastic.

The best would have to be....*jumps up on counter* "I don't knooooooooooow, Iiiiii don't knoooooooooooooooow, I've had sooooooooo, so many stroooooong reservatiooooooooooooooooons! Should I gooooo, and perfooooorm....mutilations?"

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#24

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 4:47pm

I love that part! We need to write a letter to...someone and beg them to do a production of Little Shop with Roger as Seymour.

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#25

re: Stars and songs you wish they could have performed

Posted: 12/11/04 at 4:48pm

I think Charles Nelson Reilly would have made quite an interesting Leo in THE PRODUCERS.

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