Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
#0Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:28am
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/101352.html
No other casting announced yet. Clark will probably be wonderful, though there was a part of me that was hoping they would go with more legendary names rather than Broadway staples. It will be fun to hear who else turns up in this.
Updated On: 8/15/06 at 11:28 AM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:31amYou don't know how I yearn to hear Loretta Swit sing "I'm Still Here".
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#2re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:39amShe actually kind of makes sense in that role, Dollypop. She should get her agent on that: she could at least do it at Beef n'Boards dinner theatre.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#3re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:44am
Oh, I think that's wonderful news!
She'll be fabulous!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 8/15/06 at 11:44 AM
#4re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:50amGreat choice, but hardly a surprise. A blind man in New Jersey could see it coming.
#5re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:02pm
This bodes well for this Encores production. Her "In Buddy's Eyes" will gorgeous.
The casting of "oldsters" can never again approach the excitement level of the original production: With the exception of the occasional Polly Bergen, any performers with the kind of authenticity of the original cast are too old...or too dead.
I think that the thrill of having a cast full of Ethel Shuttas or Mary McCartys, all making comebacks, doing the kind of material they used to do, are gone. Why go on attempting it weith diminishing results.
Better that they cast superbly talented younger performers like Victoria Clark, who can bring their talent to the material.
That said, I'm praying they ask Kitty Carlisle Hart to be in it. "One More Kiss," perhaps?
#6re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:04pm
Come on, who else besides me wants to see Charlotte Rae nail "Broadway Baby."
#9re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:24pm
I smell the return of an avatar.
and I'm not joking, by the way. Rae is one of those women Pal Joey meant, I think. Ok, so she's a bit "young" to have been there the first time around, but she's one of those gals we have now and I'd kill to see her take this on.
So who is going to knock "I'm Still Here" out of the park?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:25pmLoretta Swit would be awful. Did you see her croak her way through Drood? I did several times. I am thrilled she hasn't been on stage since...!
#11re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:35pmWhat do you mean Loretta Swit hasn't been on stage since DROOD? She continues to do her revolving repertoire of SONG OF SINGAPORE and SHIRLEY VALENTINE at convelescent homes around the country and she was glorious in the last year's revival of HALLALUJAH BABY at the Playtex Theatre Center in Denton.
#12re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:35pmThis has made my day.
JBSinger
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/04
#13re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:38pm
Patti LuPone has "Phyllis" written all over her. How awesome would that be hearing her belt out "Could I Leave You?"
Crosses fingers.
#14re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:40pmPatti LuPone would be a terrible Phyllis in my opinion, but she'd be a fantastic Hattie. With Clark's casting, Donna Murphy now makes more sense than ever to play Phyllis.
#15re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:46pm
Murphy would be a superb Phyllis.
I'd kill to see what Carolee would do with the role. With Clark as Sally, Carmello wouldn't look too young.
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#16re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:49pm
Patti as Phyllis? I don't know, but I do have an itch to hear her sing "I'm Still Here" for some reason right now. After hearing Kate Burton sing "I Never Do Anything Twice" from Wall to Wall Sondheim, I thought she would make a fantastic Phyllis. Wouldn't happen though.
I am psyched about VC as Sally. Let's hope that casting continues to impress.
~Kev
I third the motion on Charlotte Rae.
camp_actor
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
#17re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:05pmI love Follies. If only there was a part for Angela Lansbury.
#18re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:20pm
my mouth just flew open so wide a bird could fly in.
can i say "yay"
#19re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:21pmBut there is a part for Lansbury. More than one part actually, depending on how they cast it...
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#20re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:36pm
Karen Morrow and Mimi Hines come to mind.
Karen : I'm Still here
Mimi: Who's That Woman?
#21re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:42pmMorrow would be spot on.
#22re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:46pmEven though she may not be physically right, Mary Testa could sing the hell out of Phyllis.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#24re: Victoria Clark to play Sally in Encores FOLLIES
Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:12pmI have a feeling Phyllis may be cast with a name.
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