Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

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Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:55pm

So with all the ridiculous stunt casting Broadway has seen lately (Mario Lopez, Bob Saget, every recent cast member of Chicago), I was wondering what reality TV degenerates, American Idol rejects, or other people who would normally have no basis being in a show you think might actually be good. Here's one of my ideas:
Madonna as Paulette in Legally Blonde...

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:15pm

Betty White
Vicki Lawrence
Tim Conway
Harvey Korman
Marla Gibbs
Jackee Harry

Don't ask what show they'd be in...

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:18pm

Eric McCormack in CHICAGO

Loretta Swit as SWEET CHARITY

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:19pm

Liza in Sunset Boulevard

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:21pm

Amy Adams as Galinda

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:37pm

Loretta Swit! What a delicious disaster!

I actually think Liza would be pretty good in SUNSET--she's a very good actress if you watch Sterile Cuckoo, Arthur or ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:37pm

Josh Groban in Phantom of the Opera.

Actually, Josh Groban in just about anything. :)

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:40pm

Nicole Ritchie in CHICAGO
Olivia Newton-John in XANADU (add to the camp aspect)
Kristen Bell in LEGALLY BLONDE
Anne Hathaway in MARY POPPINS
Meryl Streep in MAMMA MIA!

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 6:07pm

Rosie O'Donnell as Glinda (just picture here in the bubble)

Ellen Degeneris as Elfaba

Dame Edna as Madam Morible

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 6:10pm

How about Amy Adams as Ariel?

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 6:14pm

Melinda Doolittle as Effie in Dreamgirls... if she put on some weight.

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 6:54pm

Jared Leto... Roger (RENT)

Alanis Morissette... Elphaba (Wicked)

And I think these two could theoretically handle it vocally too. C'mon, producers, cast them. Preferably on the tour.

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 6:59pm

Christina Aguilera in Chicago

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 7:14pm

Kristen Bell as Elle Woods...enough said! She should have originated the role in the first place.

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 7:19pm

Vicki Lawrence - The Drowsy Chaperone, The Drowsy Chaperone
Melora Hardin - Roxie Hart, Chicago
Julianne Hough - Charity, Sweet Charity (or Roxie if Ashlee can do it)
Tracie Thoms - ANYTHING (personably she'd be a fabulous Elphaba to break the standard recycling procedure or a Matron in Chicago)
Tina Fey - Diane, The Little Dog Laughed
Queen Latifah - ANYTHING (she really needs an original role but she could reprise her Matron or Motormouth)
Christina Aguilera - Louise, Gypsy

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 7:19pm

She's not really a name anymore but I've thought that Cybill Shepard would be great as Velma von Tussle.

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 7:25pm

Reba, in anything!

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 7:30pm

So basically your idea of "Stunt casting" is to put a famous person in the role? Because some of the people named are actually BROADWAY ACTORS. Why is it a "Stunt" to cast a BROADWAY actor in a BROADWAY show?

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 7:36pm

I second Tracie Thoms--what an amazing Elphaba she'd be.

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 9:05pm

I second Eric McCormack in Chicago.

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 9:15pm

I TOTALLY agree with Kristen Bell as Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde" or as Kira in "Xanadu".... and Alanis Morissette as Elphaba! Wow, that would DEFINITELY get me to see "Wicked" again!

Updated On: 4/23/08 at 09:15 PM

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 9:18pm

Kristen Bell as Kira in Xanadu

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 10:10pm

Hugh Laurie and I don't what show they stick him in although I think it would be interesting to see him as the patriarch in The Homecoming. Either way I would just love to see him on broadway!

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 10:14pm

Christina Applegate as Kira in Xanadu (Kristen Bell too)
Julianne Hough as Amber in Hairspray
Vanessa Williams as Donna in Mamma Mia!

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re: Stunt Casting You'd LIKE to See?

Posted: 4/22/08 at 10:22pm

Anne Hathaway as Mary Poppins? God damn that's dumb!