Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
LindaSmyth
Chorus Member Joined: 7/24/14
#1Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 6:55pm
Does anyone know if this will be a concert version or...?
I am a big fan of hers, I wish she would come back to Broadway!
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/That-Girl-is-Strange-But-Special-Susan-Egan-to-Reprise-Role-in-BEAUTY-AND-THE-BEAST-at-5-Star-Theatricals-20180226
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:00pm
Is she playing the castle? She's almost 50.
#3Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:02pm
blaxx said: "Is she playing the castle? She's almost 50."
LOL
#4Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:07pm
She should be playing Mrs. Potts. LyndaSmith, no it's not a concert version. It's a fully staged version of the show.
#5Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:13pm
This was done with Ellen Greene in Little Shop and Glenn Close in Sunset. Actors returning to their iconic roles. Sure, might look weird to someone who is going to just see Beauty and the Beast, but those who know it will be excited.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#6Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:19pm
Look there she goes that girl who is so...that middle age woman who is so peculiar...
pmensky
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/11
#8Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 8:11pmI love it. It’s absurd, but if all those ladies can play Annie Oakley and Peter Pan in their 50s and there is some theatre that wants to produce it for her to Star again- than why the fcuk not. If I were in LA I’d sure go.
#9Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 8:41pmI get the nostalgia factor, but why not have her play Mrs. Potts? I’m sure she’d sing the title song beautifully.
#10Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 8:44pmIf you were a woman in her late 40s living in California you would know why she wouldn’t be interested in playing the old woman role.
#11Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:07pmI wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#12Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:13pm
when i read this i admit i immediately looked up her age
if she feels good about doing it and people enjoy it
go for it
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#13Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:15pm
NOWaWarning said: "I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me"
Lmfao!
#14Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:17pmMan, I wish I could see this. This was the first broadway show I ever saw and I’d give anything to be able to relive this.
#15Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:17pm
NOWaWarning said: "I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me"
Now THAT was funny.
#16Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:21pm
NOWaWarning said: "I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me"
This wins the thread. Brilliant and hilarious!!!
#17Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:57pmGood for her! Even better for audiences!
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#18Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 2/27/18 at 10:55pm
Jordan Catalano said: "Man, I wish I could see this. This was the first broadway show I ever saw and I’d give anything to be able to relive this."
It was mine too, seeing it shortly after the Tonys that year well before they moved out of the Palace and downsized for the Lunt. I still hold such great memories of that original production that I'm hesitant to ever see another that doesn't have the full Disney budget behind it. So many just absolutely terrible production photos out there, even from companies that normally do very good work.
I'll be curious to see what the physical production for this one ends up looking like.
Bwayfan292
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/17
#19Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 7/20/18 at 8:32pmNot to be rude but the production photos look like its a production of Granny and the Beast.
#21Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 7/20/18 at 8:41pmI think Susan looks fine but the scenery, costumes and wigs look cheap.
kp
Understudy Joined: 8/14/04
#22Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 7/20/18 at 8:51pm
Bwayfan292 said: "Not to be rude but the production photos look like its a production of Granny and the Beast."
I love it when people say not to be rude then are. The photos I saw would certainly not make me think Granny and The Beast. Your idea of a granny is certainly different to mine though I suppose you used (pinched) the phrase to score a cheap laugh.
#23Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 7/20/18 at 9:06pm
Norma:
You're a woman of Fifty.
FIFTY.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being Fifty.
Unless you're trying to be Twenty-five.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#24Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 7/20/18 at 9:34pm
Worth noting that this thread is mostly a group of men commenting on the appropriateness of a woman playing a role. I'll say no more, but this is what women always say about Hollywood: men decide what they can and should play.
For the record, she looks great in the photos. Maybe Belle is a woman who never married and finds meaning and love in early mid-life. Maybe the story deepens, her relationship with her father, being isolated in a town as a single woman. Who reads.
If she can still sing it, who cares?
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#25Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB
Posted: 7/20/18 at 9:42pm
I think she looks wonderful. And by the way, if you have to preface a comment with "not to be rude," that generally isn't a good start. The "Granny and the Beast" comment is very disrespectful.
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