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#26

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:48pm

Nathan Lane as Pseudolos (Forum)
Nathan Lane as Max (The Producers)
Rob Bartlett as Speed (The Odd Couple)
Ethel Merman as Rose (Gypsy)
Bernadette Peters as Rose (Gypsy)
Bernadette as The Witch (Into the Woods)
Harvey Fierstein as Edna (Hairspray)
Harvey Fierstein as Tevye (Fiddler)
Kevin Chamberlin as Horton (Seussical)
Robert Morse as Finch (H2$)
Janine LaManna as Gertrude (Seussical)
Cathy Rigby as Peter Pan
Cathy Rigby as the Cat in the Hat (Seussical)
Julie Andrews as Victoria (Victor/Victoria)
Carol Burnett as Winnifred (Once Upon a Mattress)
Anthony Rapp as Mark (RENT)
Chita Rivera....
EVERYONE in DRS, The Producers, Avenue Q.

many others
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#27

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:00pm

Angela Lansbury as Mama Rose, Michel Carvaris as Sweeney, and Patti Lupone in everything! (Evita is her best though)
#28

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 4:03am

In musicals only (some based on live performances, some based on videos/cast recordings):
Donna Murphy-Wonderful Town, Passion
Jane Krakowski-Mack & Mabel
Bernadette Peters-Song & Dance
Bernadette Peters-Dot
Dorothy Loudon-Ms.Hannigan
Joel Grey-Cabaret
Lotte Lenya-The Threepenny Opera
Christine Ebersole-Grey Gardens
Barbara Harris-The Apple Tree
Elaine Stritch-Sail Away
Barbara Cook-She Loves Me
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#29

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 4:25am

Bebe Neuwirth as Velma in Chicago.
Loretta Devine as Lorrell in Dreamgirls.
Joanna Gleason as The Bakers Wife in Into the Woods.
Raul Esparza as Phillip Salon in Taboo.
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs." -RuPaul
#30

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 6:54am

Melba Moore in Purlie
Anthony Newley in Stop the World . . .
Barbara Harris in The Apple Tree
Hugh Jackman - The Boy from Oz
Robert Preston in The Music Man
Ben Vereen in Pippin

and best replacement that should have opened the run:

Reba McEntire - Annie Get Your Gun

Updated On: 12/6/06 at 06:54 AM

#31

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 8:01am

Harvey Fierstein as Tevye (Fiddler)
Really?
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
#32

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 8:10am

I thought he was fantastic!

Joel Grey as the MC (Cabaret)
Dorothy Loudon as Miss Hanigan (Annie)
Hunter Foster as Bobby (Urinetown)
Martin Short as Elliot (The Goodbye Girl)
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

Updated On: 12/6/06 at 08:10 AM

#34

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 9:36pm

EDEN ESPINOSA AS FANTINE!

...wait.
"The nice thing about the rain is that it always stops... eventually."

- Eeyore
#35

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 9:44pm

Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda
Beth Leavel as the Drowsy Chaperone
Bob Martin as the Man in the Chair
Norbert in DRS
Celia as Olive
Idina as Elphaba
"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!" --Reefer Madness
#37

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 11:11pm

Michael Arden as Peter - BARE

There's something about him that allows him to play a vulnerable and troubled boy really well. Also vocally, he rocks!
"Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, 'I knew he loved me when he didn't come in my mouth.'" ~ Andy Warhol
#38

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 11:25pm

Jason Tam as Paul (ACL) - I could not imagine anyone else, though I know Sammy Williams was probably fantastic.

Kelli O'Hara as Clara (LITP) - I could not stand Katie's performance. I kept wishing Kelli was still in it.

Neil Patrick Harris as The Balladeer (Assassins)

John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli and Christian Hoff as Tommy DeVito (Jersey Boys) - I saw Michael, and though he was good, he didn't age as well as John did. John Lloyd is just perfect. As for Christian, I've never seen an understudy for him, and I don't think I want to.
#39

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 11:29pm

The Odd Couple Revival cast made me laugh out loud!
#40

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/6/06 at 11:31pm

Chita Rivera as Chita Rivera in Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life.
#41

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/7/06 at 12:16am

Lea Salonga - Kim, Miss Saigon; Mei Li, Flower Drum Song; Eponine, Les Miserables
Joan Almedilla - Fantine, Les Miserables; Miyuki, Making Tracks
Megan Hilty - Glinda, Wicked
Natalie Cortez - Diana, A Chorus Line Revival
Tony Yazbeck - Al, A Chorus Line Revival
Alan Cumming - Emcee, Cabaret Revival
Will Chase - Chris, Miss Saigon
Donna Murphy - Passion
Jere Shea - Passion
Julie Andrews - Maria, Sound of Music; Victor/Victoria
Christopher Plummer - Captain Von Trapp, Sound of Music
Rachel York - Norma, Victor/Victoria
Christine Andreas - Scarlet Pimpernel
Heather Hedley - Aida
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#42

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/7/06 at 12:46am

Bernadette Peters as Dot - Sunday in the Park with George
Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose - Gypsy
Bernadette Peters as Annie - Annie Get Your Gun
Nathan Lane as Max - The Producers
Lee Evans as Leo - The Producers
Dan Futterman as Louis - Angels in America
Daniel Evans as Otto - The Grand Hotel
Ewan McGregor as Sky - Guys and Dolls
Mandy Patinkin as George - Sunday in the Park with George
Raul Esparza as Robert - Company
John Owen-Jones as Jean Valjean - Les Miserable
John Owen-Jones as Phantom - POTO
Somebody sit in my chair, and ruin my sleep, and make me aware of being alive!

Updated On: 12/7/06 at 12:46 AM

#43

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/7/06 at 12:48am

I can only base these on cast recordings, but I think the 1975 Chicago OBC is pretty much perfect. And Gwen Verdon's voice suits Sweet Charity to a tee.
#44

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/7/06 at 1:08am

Darius deHaas- Cain/Japheth - Children of Eden
Deven May- Edgar - Bat Boy
Jason Raize- Simba - The Lion King
Daniel Jenkins- Huck and later Huck/Mark Twain - Big River
Nathan Lane- Nathan Detroit - Guys and Dolls
Amy Spanger- tick, tick, boom
Tom Hewitt- Lockstock - Urinetown (tour)
Kristin Chenoweth- Sally Brown - YAGMCB
Roger Bart- Snoopy- YAGMCB
Hunter Foster- Bobby Strong - Urinetown
Hunter Foster- Seymour - Little Shop Revival
Jeremy Kushnier- Ren - Footloose
#45

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/7/06 at 1:08am

Kristy Cates as Elphaba (I adore her)
Norbert as Jamie
Lauren Kennedy as Kathy (I love Sherie, but I liked Lauren's interpretation better)
Rent OBC sans Daphne (I can't stand her)
Sutton Foster - Millie
Bebe Neuwirth as Velma

oy so many more
#48

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/7/06 at 6:51am

Some I forgot about:
Vivian Blaine-Guys & Dolls
Danielle Federland-Into the Woods
Zero Mostel-Fiddler on the Roof
Anita Morris-Nine
Kathi Moss-Nine
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#49

re: The Best Casting Choices

Posted: 12/7/06 at 3:04pm

I'm shocked that no one mentioned Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens!

Only mentioning those that I don't think were specifically mentioned (sorry if they were)...

Julie Andrews-My Fair Lady (talk about no-name casting)
Yul Brenner-The King And I
Chita Rivera-West Side Story
Jonathan Pryce-DRS
Sherie Rene Scott-DRS
Greg Jbara-DRS
Denis O'Hare-Take Me Out

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

Updated On: 12/7/06 at 03:04 PM

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