Tom Holland

I had no idea until I read your post...

I had the same thought about him playing Seymour - I think he’d be great. He’s got charisma to beat the band, can carry a tune respectively and can move with rhythm and grace.

Alas, I doubt we’ll see him onstage anywhere in the near future with his film career in high gear. Perhaps the Public could get him for a three week Delacourte offering someday, but I dare say you’d have to sleep out for three weeks to snag a ticket to get in (I suspect he’d acquit himself admirably in a Shakespeare offering).


I suspect we’ll have to make due with the upcoming Astaire biopic he’s set to star in to see him sing and dance anytime soon.

Gyllenhaal has demonstrated a commitment to the stage that’s rare for most film stars, especially for someone who didn’t start on the stage. Certainly any Hollywood actor COULD make time for it if they wanted.

I’m guessing we’ll see Holland back onstage someday, but he’s arguably at the peak of his Hollywood stardom right now (in a way that Gyllenhaal definitely isn’t) so it’ll probably be a while.

Updated On: 3/20/22 at 09:49 PM

pmensky said: "I don’t think he can sing. He was fine doing Billy Elliot when he was 12, but he says he only sings in the shower now."

Surprised to hear that. Billy Elliot is obviously not the most difficult role to sing, but it does require an actor who can genuinely sing. I wonder if Holland is just out of practice after all these years, and could brush up with some training.


plus he could always do a play.

pmensky said: "No, Billy is not a difficult role to sing. It’s written for a prepubescent boy whose voice hasn’t changed, so no matter how good he sounded singing back then, that would be no indication of how he sounds now.”

Again, I wasn’t saying that Billy is a difficult sing compared to many other musical theatre roles. But just because a role is written for a child to sing doesn’t mean the child doesn’t have to ACTUALLY be able to sing. There’s a big gap between “child singing Twinkle Twinkle at a recital” vs “able to sing Electricity on the West End.”

And speaking as a former pre-pubescent boy who learned to sing before, during, and after my voice change: just because I had to deal with major adjustments doesn’t mean I started from a totally clean slate when my voice changed. One can still make use of technical training and/or innate talent from before a voice change, even if that alone isn’t sufficient to carry it through. As I specifically said, it would require additional training for him to sing professionally again, but he probably still has a foundational sense of musicality, some raw unpolished talent, and/or understanding of the art of singing, that just needs to be recalibrated and re-fined for his adult voice.


Sure, he might do a play someday when his movie career isn’t on a roll, and he isn’t making 10 million per picture."

We’re in agreement there. That was exactly what I was saying in my earlier post above.

Updated On: 3/21/22 at 12:01 AM

While he's taking a well-earned break now through the summer, I do wish part of that break involved coming to Broadway.

JSquared2 said: "everythingtaboo said: "While he's taking a well-earned break now through the summer, I do wish part of that break involved coming to Broadway."

How would that be considered "taking a break"?"

Exactly. An 8 performances a week schedule is more taxing than working on a film project. On a film your shooting schedule fluctuates and you have days off during the week. On Broadway, you only have one day off and you have to discipline your life 24/7. This is why many haven’t returned to Broadway after establishing careers in other mediums. They find that Broadway lifestyle torturous.

BrodyFosse123 said: "JSquared2 said: "everythingtaboo said: "While he's taking a well-earned break now through the summer, I do wish part of that break involved coming to Broadway."

How would that be considered "taking a break"?"

Exactly. An 8 performances a week schedule is more taxing than working on a film project. On a film your shooting schedule fluctuates and you have days off during the week. On Broadway, you only have one day off and you have to discipline your life 24/7. This is why many haven’t returned to Broadway after establishing careers in other mediums. They find that Broadway lifestyle torturous."

I mean, the kid's spent the last six years working in and promoting action films worldwide virtually nonstop. I'm sure he wouldn't mind being in one place for a minute to focus on one project and not have to spend 16 hours a day in a Spidey suit having to be fed through a tube. So he knows discipline. We're speaking in theoreticals here, but it's all relative.