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Ursula - What If?
#25re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:20amMary Testa! Please~
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#26re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:54am
ljay-
I love your suggestion of Debra Monk, she'd be wonderful!
Glad to see all the love for Mary Testa. She and Lainie Kazan are two actresses I mentioned I'd love to see when the show was announced and casting hadn't begun yet.
While maybe a little older than many would want, the perfect Ursula for me would have been Carole Shelley. She's a brilliant actress who'd bring a sincere thespian edge to the role. But more basically, take her Madame Morrible in Wicked (really extraordinary character work in a part that could have slipped under the radar) and add a little of Ursula's sass and sarcasm, slip some tentacles onto the bustles she was already wearing, and Shelley would bring an Ursula that evokes what we know and love from the film/Pat Carroll, but still stands on her own. IMHO.
Elphie68
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#27re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:03pm
H.Higgins,
I enjoy Carole Shelley as well and I think your comment was spot on.
TheatreDiva90016
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#28re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:04pm
There is an actress at the Denver Center named Kathy Brady.
She would be perfect for this part!
I'm sure anyone from Denver can back me on this.
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#29re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:21pm
* Elphie68-
Thank you! It's nice to know you agree!
* TheatreDiva-
I just did a little "googling" on Ms. Brady. Judging by the photo I saw of her as Domina in Forum, she looks like an excellent choice for the role! Do you know what other roles she's done?
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#30re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:54pm
I did Gypsy with her years ago, and I still use her performance as Rose to judge others by.
She has a LOOOONG resume. I just saw her a couple years ago as Madam Arcati (sp?) in 'Blithe Spirit' and she was perfect.
She is SO talented!
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MungoGypsy8232
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#32re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:52pmSondhead...even trained singers have throat problems...take Donna Murphy for example.
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#33re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:55pmWill no one cast Harvey Fierstein in this role????
#34re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:07pm
On topic, I think Sara would be perfect, but I also pictured Debra Monk when they first started talking about bringing the show.
Off the main topic, but commenting on an earlier discussion because, darn it... it's Sara. :)
Sara Ramirez has said that she fully intends to come back to Broadway at some point. She bought a home in LA and does have a contract with Grey's, but that doesn't really mean anything concrete. They can be written out or choose to go.
And while she did have terrible throat problems during Spamalot, it was her first role of that size and it is quite demanding vocally. I don't know that she would ever take such a demanding role again.
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Mr. Tuttle
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#36re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:23pm
How quaint that people here believe that Saaaara's absences were all vocal health related.
I guess that's why Mike Nichols came down to the theatre personally to have a "discussion" with Saaaaara about her absences. Interesting. Shortly after the "discussion," Saaaara left the show.
I guess those darn vocal problems also made some of her leading cast memebers say they would never work her again.
Damn voice problems. They ruin everything!
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zooxanthellae
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#37re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:24pm
Will no one cast Harvey Fierstein in this role????
I was about to say the same thing!
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#38re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:29pm
For some reason I was expecting this thread to be about Ursula being played by a man.
Emily Skinner Emily Skinner Emily Skinner.
Still kind of bitter she didn't get it.
Tell her not to f*ck up with Disney again.
#39re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:30pmMr. Tuttle, I had only ever heard vocal issues as the reason behind Sara's absences. I don't have any insider info, so I just go by what I read. What were the real reasons? The timing of ABCs offer must have been perfect. You can't really beat a "pick a show" for an arc offer.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#40re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:33pm
I saw Sherie Rene Scott and I thought she did a FABULOUS job without looking exactly like the animated version...
though I would kill to see Emily Skinner for that role...
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#41re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:35pmWhen I first heard they were doing TLM, I thought of Chita immediately for Ursula. She doesn't fit the original character drawings at all, I know, but can't you imagine her "Poor Unfortuante Souls"?
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#42re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:46pm
Watching Sherie perform the role (perfectly I might add), all I (and who I was with) could think of in the role is:
Elaine Paige
Short, but come on... she'd sing the hell out of it!
::bust a move::
#43re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:50pmIn a weird way, I can hear Chita singing POOR UNFORTUNATE SOULS and sounding damn good.
Elphie68
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#44re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:50pmjatstarr: Word! This part would have been pwned by Ms. Emily Skinner.
Mr. Tuttle
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#45re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:55pm
Yeah Jersey. Sure. Mike Nichols came all the way down to the theatre to "discuss" Greys. Yeah...that's it.
Believe what you will.
Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity last forever.
Watch out BWW...
HE'S BACK.
#46re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:00pmI never suggested the two were related. I just said her ABC offer came at a good time. I asked you honestly what the deal really was because I have never heard anything else.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
truman
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#47re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:44pmSara Ramirez as Ursula...I could totally see that.
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#48re: Ursula - What If?
Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:21pmroz ryan would be perfect, she's got the humor down, one hell of a voice, and has worked with disney before (she's one of the muses in hercules)
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