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Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#100
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:11pm
I don't think he'll be bad at all. But every time I think of him I can't help but think of those car commercials that were played rather incessantly when he won.
If it keeps our NY actors employed, by all means, bring him in.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#101
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:19pmHe's got a decent voice, and it's a tiny part. It's not like he is actually taking over a leading role, it's a cameo. Yeesh! If you weren't planning on seeing Grease before then why would you go see it now?
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#102
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:25pm
Oh my gosh, GET OVER IT.
He has talent and will play the part fine and maybe sell a few tickets.
It's not like he is playing Iago in a Peter Brook's production of Othello.
He is playing a small part in a commercial show for a commercial audience on Broadway. And the people who see the show will probably love the fact that they can tell their friends that they say an AI winner on Broadway. And Broadway, like it or not, is as commercial as theatre gets.
And, I mean, this show was cast using reality TV. So is it really that big a deal when they cast a winner from the most popular reality show on television?
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#103
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:29pmIt's GREASE, not SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Who gives a crap? The only reason this revival of GREASE exists is because of a reality show anyway.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#104
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:45pm
OMG! Taylor would be AMAZING as George in SITPWG! Imagine him opposite Kelly Clarkson as DOT!
I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight imagining that cast!
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#105
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:50pm
No Pork Chop?
He could be the crusty boatman. He was born to be bad. Of course, they'll have to Ned Flanders up the lyrics a bit, but I'm sure Sondheim won't mind.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#106
Posted: 5/16/08 at 12:54pm
I'm hoping that David Archuleta gets cast in as Henrik in the upcoming Little Night Music revival. Inspired, no?
Updated On: 5/16/08 at 12:54 PM
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#107
Posted: 5/16/08 at 1:06pmA bit safe and predictable, but it's a-ight for me.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#108
Posted: 5/16/08 at 1:13pmReuban Studdard for Bobby! Anyone? Anyone?
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#110
Posted: 5/16/08 at 1:55pmThe "You just don't like him because you're jealous!" arguments are even more pathetic than the people bashing him. Not everyone on this board aspires to star on Broadway (and even if they do, hopefully they'd have higher dreams for themselves than Teen Angel in a bad production of Grease).
Wanting life but never knowing how
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#112
Posted: 5/16/08 at 1:59pm
Nice Try. How about this fact: Not one poster on this board has achieved as much in his or her chosen profession, no matter what it is, as Taylor Hicks has achieved in his.
Edited to add: Except, arguably, Marc Shaiman. 
Updated On: 5/16/08 at 01:59 PM
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#113
Posted: 5/16/08 at 2:02pm
Yeah, but my hair's still it's natural color. So there.
Under the highlights, I mean.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#115
Posted: 5/16/08 at 2:07pmI've been meaning to tell you for years- You should keep your hair natural, like mine!
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#117
Posted: 5/16/08 at 2:11pmbuuuuuuut sweeeeee-eee-eee-tieeeee
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#106
Posted: 5/16/08 at 3:48pmI'd rather be associated with Grease than SINTWG anyday. Grease is a much better show.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#107
Posted: 5/16/08 at 6:14pm
Guy comes to Broadway with no practical experience in theater.
Can't dance. Sings pretty well.
Acting is better than many people thought possible.
Really only a name in the Jazz world.
Has the nerve to take a lead role.
And every single person on this site would sell (and many have) their mammas to get front-row tickets for his next show.
Harry Connick Jr.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#108
Posted: 5/16/08 at 6:17pm
And while we are at it, Bob Hope (a professional boxer) Phil Silvers (a carnival barker) Milton Berle (a child model) Burt Lahr (a vaudeville performer) Dame Edna (don't start) and on and on.
Let's become a board that comments after a performance, not one notorious for judging before we've seen the goods.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#109
Posted: 5/16/08 at 6:46pm
"I'm hoping that David Archuleta gets cast in as Henrik in the upcoming Little Night Music revival. Inspired, no? "
They would not, could not let Archuleta just wouldn't ruin Little Night Music!!!! I couldn't bear him in a show of repute. Sure, put him in Grease, but Sondheim? Sondheim is reserved for people who have the emotional width to play the character that Sondheim has created with his amazing musical. Crap, now I'm ranting.
"Nice Try. How about this fact: Not one poster on this board has achieved as much in his or her chosen profession, no matter what it is, as Taylor Hicks has achieved in his. "
I have an excuse; i'm fifteen, and my parents are the anti-stage parent. Taylor Hicks is... blecchh with muscle spasms.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#110
Posted: 5/16/08 at 7:14pmyou get to use that excuse just once.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#111
Posted: 5/16/08 at 7:20pmJoeKv99: Jason Robert Brown posts on this board, too.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#112
Posted: 5/16/08 at 10:17pm
"Nice Try. How about this fact: Not one poster on this board has achieved as much in his or her chosen profession, no matter what it is, as Taylor Hicks has achieved in his."
Not everyone on this board has ambitions to act. I am very happy with my career and have been very successful in it as well.
I do, however, LOVE generalizations.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#113
Posted: 5/16/08 at 10:30pm
"Nice Try. How about this fact: Not one poster on this board has achieved as much in his or her chosen profession, no matter what it is, as Taylor Hicks has achieved in his."
How the hell would you know? And if that's your idea of a worthy achievement, you're REALLY sad.
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#114
Posted: 5/16/08 at 10:46pm
What should would be best for these two? 
She bangs!
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#115
Posted: 5/16/08 at 10:53pm
This thread has become absurd. There have been reality shows long before AI. There was the Amateur night at the Apollo, Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, Star Search and many others.
Taylor Hicks is neither going to ruin Broadway or revolutionize it. Get over it people!
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Taylor Hicks to Join GREASE Cast#116
Posted: 5/16/08 at 11:02pmI stand by my statement. I love generalizations, too, like when people say someone "Will be" awful in part before they've even gone into rehersals for it.
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