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Liza definitely seems like great choice if she was in better health.


Lorna Luft would be a great choice too for the same reason as Liza but she’s not as well known as her sister is. I’ve always wondered if she’d appear as Morrible on Broadway.

Minnie Driver for Morrible?

Baranski, Catherine Zeta Jones, or Bonham Carter please.

beatofthedrum27 said: "Throwing this out there because it hit me last night.

Let me preface this by saying that my #1 choice for Fiyero is Jordan Fisher, but with the casting so far, I'm afraid that he may read too young to play opposite Cynthia. But if I can't have Jordan as Fiyero:

Andrew Garfield?????

He recently said that he wanted to do more movie musicals. I feel like he would read beautifully opposite Cynthia. The Jon Chu and LMM connection. I feel like he would do the role justice and could realistically be in contention."

I have been wondering if he now feels like an even more viable option than ever. Not to mention that he has proven before that he can convincingly play characters younger than his actual age. He was not only in his mid-30s when he played a man on the verge of turning 30 in tick, tick...BOOM!, but he was also in his late 20s when he first played teenaged Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man. So it shouldn't be too much of a problem for him to play a college aged Fiyero in the first half.

Updated On: 1/19/22 at 04:53 PM

I think Andrew Garfield is a bizarre choice. He’s literally old enough to be the father of most college freshmen. I realize that Fiyero has been kicked out of many schools, but not THAT many. I also realize that they’ll probably justify Cynthia’s age by stating that she is much older than Nessa and was only sent to Shiz to keep her eye on her, but not THAT much older. They need to hire an actor who still has the ability to play in his 20s but can also be a worthy opponent to Cynthia without looking like Ariana’s father. I still think Jeremy Pope would be the best choice.

Keep in mind, these people are only in college for the first act. During the second act, college is no longer a plot point. They could be five to ten years out of college when the second act starts. Andrew Garfield, who is not yet 40, can certainly play a character between 25 and 35.

If Derek Klena is available, maybe he could do it

Anjelica Huston as Morrible

Globefan said: "Garfield as Fiyero is a great idea"

Not in any universe. Derek is awesome but completely unknown, as are most of the suggestions in this thread.

Fiyero’s too thankless of a role for a prestige leading man like Garfield. Plus he’s not really the playboy type, dreamy as he is in his own way. If he’s got the vocal range, Regé-Jean Page has my vote for Fiyero.

Sidebar, anyone else curious what the accent situation will be? Do we think they’ll make Cynthia do a standard America dialect? They made Kerry Ellis do one when she played the role on Broadway. Meanwhile, Carole Shelley’s Morrible was English in the OBC and no one batted an eye. I wonder if they’ll just let everyone use their natural accents like in the Into the Woods movie.

He can't sing, so nope.

I would love it for it to be Anthony Ramos. He will be a household name after Transformers comes out and he's a Latino man who can sing beautifully. Diversity is a beautiful thing and I would like to see as much as it as possible in this film.

Sutton Ross said: "He can't sing, so nope.

I would love it for it to be Anthony Ramos. He will be a household name after Transformers comes out and he's a Latino man who can sing beautifully. Diversity is a beautiful thing and I would like to see as much as it as possible in this film."

Yes, he can sing.HERE is a clip of him singing with his band. He has the ideal range for Fiyero. In my opinion, Ramos is not the right type for this role. He’s a little too rough around the edges and not easy enough of the eyes.

Sutton Ross said: "Uhhhh.....Anthony Ramos is sexy as hell and can sing. Really actually. Like on Broadway. But, sure."

Yeah, well, if being a Broadway singer were a prerequisite for casting consideration for John Chu, or any recent movie musical, we would have had some very different casts over the past year. Ramos is very sexy, but he does not read as a spoiled Prince. As I said, he’s too rough around the edges.