#26
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:52pm
I would be happy for Elaine Strich! She could actually sing this part and would probably win the Tony Award by default.
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#27
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:12pm
That's nothing, madbrain. My cousin's best friend's local butcher is the godfather of Trevor Nunn's niece's friend from school. And HE said that Rupaul will be playing Desiree.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#28
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:28pm
OK, so I had no desire to see this with the names that had been bandied about. They're all terrific, but I don't get the younger casting approach. However, with RuPaul as Desiree and Stritch as Armfeldt, I'd pay big bucks.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#29
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:48pm
RuPaul can handle comedy MUCH better than some of the actresses that have been mentioned...Nicole Kidman comes to mind.
#30
Posted: 7/21/09 at 4:50pm
I'm so tempted to just make sh*t up and see how many people believe me, since that seems to be all the rage lately.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#31
Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:07pm
Do it. It's fun.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#32
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:31pm
I guess the Benanti and Cerveris rumors can come to an end (if they weren't already).
I they DID turn down roles I think they made a wrong decision. True they have done the show...but to be in the show on Broadway and get a cast recording would be worth MUCH MORE than anything else.
Especially since they will be dead when it makes another revival.
I they DID turn down roles I think they made a wrong decision. True they have done the show...but to be in the show on Broadway and get a cast recording would be worth MUCH MORE than anything else.
Especially since they will be dead when it makes another revival.
#33
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:42pm
I think there is a fierce argument to be made that the opportunity to be in the Broadway premiere for a playwright like Sarah Ruhl has just as much merit (if not more so) as being cast in any musical revival, MTVMANN.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#34
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:42pm
double post.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 7/21/09 at 06:42 PM
#35
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:50pm
Benanti would never pass as an eighteen year old virgin. She'd sing the role flawlessly, thus everyone suggesting her, but she no longer can pass for the physical requirements of the role.
#36
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:51pm
No. Benanti would have been up for Charlotte. Not Anne.
#37
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:52pm
She'd be a horrible Charlotte too.
#38
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:53pm
Much rather have her than the rumored Jenny Powers.
#39
Posted: 7/21/09 at 6:55pm
I can speak with 100% certainty that most of the cast is in place, but there are some union issues being worked out pertaining to a certain actress, and there are two contracts that have yet to be signed.
#40
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:00pm
I disagree, Ljay. I think Charlotte fits Jenny Powers like a glove, whereas I don't think Benanti would be a natural in the part (though I think she would have been good).
"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"
#41
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:06pm
I might be a little biased since it is my favorite musical ever!
#42
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:06pm
Agreed, ray, I think Jenny Powers would be a perfect Charlotte, and she really deserves the break after Grease. She was fantastic in Follies for those that were lucky enough to see it.
#43
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:09pm
Who was she? I'm guessing Young Phyllis.
#44
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:12pm
Yep, really played the ideal younger self of Donna Murphy. Talk about a cast/show that I wish would have transferred.
#45
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:15pm
Is Leigh Ann Larkin still up for Petra?
#47
Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:27pm
Does anyone think that perhaps some of the reason Lansbury left "Blithe Spirit" is to perhaps have a little bit of down time before rehearsals start?
Usually the Tony Winners stay on longer that they might have than if they didn't win...but usually they are 80-something either.
Usually the Tony Winners stay on longer that they might have than if they didn't win...but usually they are 80-something either.
#48
Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:30pm
Blithe Spirit was a limited run from the start.
#49
Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:33pm
So did the show extend, and she just chose not to?
#50
Posted: 7/21/09 at 8:35pm
Exactly, Angela Lansbury didn't "leave" BLITHE SPIRIT. The show closed as scheduled.
Powers made for a lovely Young Phyllis, I loved all four young actors. It'd be great to see Powers continue in the Sondheim tradition (by the way Encores! people-in-charge, she sings a mean "There Won't Be Trumpets"). I'm not sure if she'll actually play Charlotte or not, but I think she'd be good in the part.
I'm loving the idea of Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra.
Powers made for a lovely Young Phyllis, I loved all four young actors. It'd be great to see Powers continue in the Sondheim tradition (by the way Encores! people-in-charge, she sings a mean "There Won't Be Trumpets"). I'm not sure if she'll actually play Charlotte or not, but I think she'd be good in the part.
I'm loving the idea of Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra.
"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"
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