The next Desiree should be Nicole Scherzinger- Page 2

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 11:56am

Would love to see Michael Arden's take on any Sondheim musical...but particularly Follies and Night Music. And Sunday.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 11:56am

Rematch in 2027: Audra in Follies v Nicole in Night Music

[spicemonkey]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 11:59am

iluvtheatertrash said: "This would be a great way to get me to NOTsee one of my favorite musicals."

But still care so much to add a comment 

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 1:55pm

Robbie2 said: "MadsonMelo said: "To people saying she should do KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN... doesn't the role needs a latin actress? wouldn't be a problem to cast someone who isn't?"



Aurora (The “Spider Woman”) - Age 20’s - 40’s. Strong Alto: Bottom Low C#, Moderate/Strong Dance. Attractive, menacing, mysterious, seductive. Must be a strong dancer."

Good to know, I always thought it had to be a latin actress given everybody else associated.

Nicole would be FIRE!

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 2:49pm

Over Cate Blanchett’s dead body…

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 4:22pm

spicemonkey said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "This would be a great way to get me to NOTsee one of my favorite musicals."

But still care so much to add a comment"

Is this not a theater board? Are we not discussing casting for a musical? So only people who agree with your casting idea are allowed to comment? Sounds like you’re not actually interested in in a discussion. You just wanted to declare your opinion and make everybody else agree with it

[Ke3]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 4:41pm

I am a very lonely Anika Noni Rose truther for Night Music. 

Audra in Passion and Follies (not or. and!)

Nicole in a new musical! (*cue laughter from the producers in the crowd*)  

I would've cut off my left arm for a Nicole revival of Evita ten years ago. 

Updated On: 6/13/25 at 04:41 PM

[getatme]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 5:44pm

Nicole feels like much more of a Charlotte than a Desiree.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 9:44pm

MadsonMelo said: "Robbie2 said: "MadsonMelo said: "To people saying she should do KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN... doesn't the role needs a latin actress? wouldn't be a problem to cast someone who isn't?"



Aurora (The “Spider Woman”) - Age 20’s - 40’s. Strong Alto: Bottom Low C#, Moderate/Strong Dance. Attractive, menacing, mysterious, seductive. Must be a strong dancer."

Good to know, I always thought it had to be a latin actress given everybody else associated.

Nicole would be FIRE!"

Umm Vanessa Williams is not Latina.

[tomorrowBIGLITES]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 10:13pm

I don’t know why Desiree has to now be cast ravishingly beautiful.

Glynis Johns had a quality. 

 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 10:25pm

ljay889 said: "I've been thinking about this lately, and it's a controversial take, but it feels like the right time to post it (for obvious reasons.)I think Desiree in the next A Little Night Music revival should be Nicole, not Audra.

Nicole has the perfectglamour and sex appeal for the role (a la CZJ) - and it would be easy to understandwhy two men are fighting over herDesiree.

It would also give Nicole the chance to excel in a lighter and funnier role. Yes, her voice is overqualified for it, and there's a chance she'd oversing it, but the same goes for Audra!

I know Sondheim wanted Audra in the role, but I keep picturing Nicole in the role, and it feels so right.

Thoughts?

"

I agree and see Nicole as Desiree and Audra as Charlotte based on character breakdown and vocals

[meredithchandler73]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 10:33pm

tomorrowBIGLITES said: "
I don’t know why Desiree has to now be cast ravishingly beautiful.

Glynis Johns had a quality."

Agreed. I also don’t understand all the hot guys who get cast as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors. Lee Wilkof (original Seymour) was absolutely perfect.

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 10:51pm

Idk if it’s in the script or not, but the Broadway revival of Little Shop has a note where Seymour was “originally written to be portly, balding and a bit slow-witted, but now is played by the likes of Hunter Foster.”

[pmensky]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 10:52pm

I agree with those saying Nicole’s voice would be wasted on this role. For me, Cate Blanchett is the ideal Desiree with Toni Collette as Charlotte. I’d pick Raul Esparza for Frederick, Norm Lewis for Carl Magnus, Andrew Barth Feldman for Henrik and Helen J. Shen for Ann. Helen Mirren would make a great Madame Armfeldt. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/13/25 at 11:38pm

Pour one out for the Natasha Richardson revival the world deserved.

[binau]

Posted: 6/14/25 at 2:40am

tomorrowBIGLITES said: "
I don’t know why Desiree has to now be cast ravishingly beautiful.

Glynis Johns had a quality.

"

Maybe I'm not getting something but isn't the exact line in the script exactly what you are quoting - that she IS ravishingly beautiful? (Anne's jealousy) 
 

[soxboy22]

Posted: 6/14/25 at 9:26am

But in so many ways this production was a one-off, so I'm not sure weknow yet whether she was simply perfectly cast for this very idiosyncratic production or is a major new star in the word of musical theater. 
 

I think Nicole is considered a major new star in the world of musical theater. For perspective….well, I can’t think of the last performer who could be described this way.

 

[CurtainsUpat8]

Posted: 6/14/25 at 12:21pm

A Little Night Music takes place in Scandanvia.  Does that fact mean anything to anyone? 

Updated On: 6/14/25 at 12:21 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 6/14/25 at 1:26pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "A Little Night Music takes place in Scandanvia. Does that fact mean anything to anyone?"

No, because "Scandanvia" isn't a place or a word.

Also, some of us aren't interested in dog whistles about actors not being white enough.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/14/25 at 1:37pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "A Little Night Music takes place in Scandanvia. Does that fact mean anything to anyone?"

Don’t you just hate it when they’re racist and dumb?

No, the hypothetical casting of a woman of Filipino-Hawaiian descent in a hypothetical revival of a fictional musical loosely set in Sweden does not bother me. Nor should it bother you.

Updated On: 6/14/25 at 01:37 PM

[soxboy22]

Posted: 6/14/25 at 2:21pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "A Little Night Music takes place in Scandanvia. Does that fact mean anything to anyone?"

Audra’s playing Mama Rose to great acclaim. You know that.

[CurtainsUpat8]

Posted: 6/15/25 at 10:35am

It's not "loosely based in Sweden" Jackass. It IS in Sweden.
I don't believe in blind casting. I cast to serve the piece. I wouldn't cast a person of color as Desiree anymore than I would cast a whilte person as Effie in DreamGirls. 
Blind Casting exists to capitulate to actors who complain they aren't able to play a role.  It doesn't serve the play, it serves the ego of actors.
Write more plays for people of Color.  Purpose was fantastic! Don't try to take a white experience and turn it into a black experience, and the opposite as well.
A white version of Dreamgirls is as absurd and a black version of A Little Night Music. 
That is my opinion. It doesn't make me racist and I refuse to be labled as such for what I believe in. It's YOU that is racist.
 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/15/25 at 12:11pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "A Little Night Music takes place in Scandanvia. Does that fact mean anything to anyone?"


Wait til you hear about this new little show called Hamilton.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/15/25 at 12:15pm

(Also, you’re an idiot.)

[abcd12]

Posted: 6/15/25 at 12:21pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "It's not "loosely based in Sweden" Jackass. It IS in Sweden.
I don't believe in blind casting. I cast to serve the piece. I wouldn't cast a person of color as Desiree anymore than I would cast a whilte person as Effie in DreamGirls.
Blind Casting exists to capitulate to actors who complain they aren't able to play a role. It doesn't serve the play, it serves the ego of actors.
Write more plays for people of Color. Purpose was fantastic! Don't try to take a white experience and turn it into a black experience, and the opposite as well.
A white version of Dreamgirls is as absurd and a black version of A Little Night Music.
That is my opinion. It doesn't make me racist and I refuse to be labled as such for what I believe in. It's YOU that is racist.
"

You do realize keeping your mouth shut is an option, right?

You sound completely moronic, but by all means continue to dig your own grave, loser.