The next Desiree should be Nicole Scherzinger — Page 3

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.
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You're annoying. One of Sondheim's final wishes was to see Audra as Desiree. So...

Did it bother you that Trevor Nunn cast many American actors using quasi-British accents for a musical set in Sweden?? They were all white, so you probably weren't bothered.

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

How pathetic your comment is

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One aspect of Sondheim's brilliance was his willingness to let people try new approaches to his work- it seemed like he was willing to sign off on any experiment, just to see if it actually worked. I don't know if it was his conscious goal, but it kept his work alive and even managed to eventually return his flops to relevance (and in the case of Merrily, into an actual hit and bonafide part of the canon). Andrew Lloyd Webber has seemingly come around to this way of thinking, as well.

Your rigid, narrow-minded originalism is the total opposite- demanding that shows be encased in amber and dooming them to be museum pieces.

CurtainsUpat8 said: "A Little Night Music is about the experiences of Swedish people.”



And Glynis Johns was English.

Darren Criss isn’t a robot.

John Cameron Mitchell, to my knowledge, has not had the majority of his penis removed.


You're just an idiot.

I blame the meatballs.

MB124 said: "This imaginary production should be site-specific, at an IKEA. Otherwise, I don’t want it."

Every audience member will be given an allen wrench and illustration-only instruction booklet and they will help build the Armfeldt family manse.

ABBA should rewrite the score.

CurtainsUpat8 said: "You don't understand what theatre is about at all. What a silly thing to write. It takes place in Sweden. You can twist yourself into a pretzel to prove otherwise, but it sounds really dumb.
Write more plays for people of color. That is the answer. Explore the black experience in new ways!

Gypsy is miscast. Mama Rose would have had a ENTIRELY different experience if she was black woman in Vaudeville with a black daughter and a white partner. THAT is just fact. And to deny the REAL experience black entertainers had during that era is going the opposite of what you want. Write a show about what the REAL experience a black woman would have under the circumstances of the era. It's not Gypsy.
Again, none of this casting serves the play... it serves the egos of actors and directors. Gypsy is a show about White people. Dreamgirls is a show about the experiences of Black people. Pacific Overtures is a musical about the experiences of Asian people. A Little Night Music is about the experiences of Swedish people. Cabaret is a show about the experiences of German people. Each of these shows were created SPECIFICALLY for these circumstances.
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Buddy, Black people exist in Sweden. They've literally been there since the 17th Century. Audra could be Swedish. There is also a Filipino community in Sweden, so Nicole could be Swedish too. Just FYI.

RACE IS A PART OF EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCE! It molds every aspect of who we are.

Get Kristin Scott Thomas some singing lessons and let the rest resolve itself.

verywellthensigh said: "Get Kristin Scott Thomas some singing lessons and let the rest resolve itself."

She would make an amazing Madame Armfeldt, especially to Cate Blanchett’s Desiree. And no, she’s not too young. I saw Sian Philips play Madame Armfeldt when she was 63, and Judi Dench was playing her daughter at 61.