What if Sutton Foster...?

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What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 8:35am

...were to play Dolly Levi in a revival of Hello Dolly! I think that'd be awesome personally.

Thoughts?

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re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 8:41am

I want her as Elphaba in Wicked
When Twilight comes she can do Bella

Updated On: 12/7/08 at 08:41 AM

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 8:58am

Sutton has said that she only likes to create roles in new musicals, as opposed to revivals or replacing in long running shows.

Not to mention that she's too young for Dolly Levi.

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re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 9:35am

Sutton as BELLA?

Guh.

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re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 11:25am

If she said she only likes creating roles in new musicals and not in revivals, what role has she ever recreated in a revival? Maybe she should try it. Perhaps she will be old enough when Drowsy comes back, she can play the chaperone!

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 11:39am

She hasn't. I believe specifically what she said is that at this point in her career, all she is interested in doing is creating roles in new musicals.

I take it she doesn't want to have the misfortune of being compared to predecessors.

She doesn't have to worry about fitting a mold. She can be the mold. ("Not the smelly mold! The mold." -Thanks, Heidi!)

Updated On: 12/7/08 at 11:39 AM

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 11:55am

On Broadway (very early in her career,) Foster has done two revivals: she played Sandy for a week in the 1990s GREASE revival and was A Star to Be in the ANNIE revival with Nell Carter in 1997.

Ever since appearing in the ensemble for THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, she has consistently (and consciously) appeared in all original musicals.

Though I think the time for her to be involved in a revival may be coming, her ability to originate such a consistent string of lead roles in new musicals over the past few years is extremely impressive.

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re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 12:05pm

I'd love to see her take on some of the all-time great theatre roles in a couple years. Right now, however, she's at a great place in her career where she can originate roles back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

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re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 4:19pm

Youre kidding right,dg22894 ?

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#10

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 5:07pm

yes I kind of had a nightmare and Sutton was the only good part if that show

#11

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 6:49pm

As Dolly Levi? No, but I would like to see her in a revival (Me and My Girl? No No Nannette?).
I also think she'd be a terrific Elphaba, but that comparison to the original thing kicks in here.
I also mentioned on another thread the possibility of pairing her with Mara Davi in Side Show, half kidding, but I think it would be really cool.

#12

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 6:50pm

Personally, I think she could play a pretty good Ella Peterson in BELLS ARE RINGING, but that was just revived. She might be too old before it comes around again.

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#13

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:00pm

She'd make a fabulous Dolly in 10-15 years.

Annie Get Your Gun won't be on Broadway again anytime soon, but she'd be a fab Annie Oakley.

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#14

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:00pm

I'm still waiting for Bernadette Peters as Dolly...please?

#15

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:05pm

I'd love to see that too, WickedRocks. Though I think Ms. Peters wants another original musical under her belt (part of why she's not in Pal Joey).

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#16

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:29pm

might I add that dg22894 once said that he (or she) would like to see a revival of Aida with

Sutton Foster... Amneris
Raul Esparza... Radames
Heather Headley... Aida

(I am not joking, you can search for it)

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#17

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:31pm

oh lord... as much as i love sutton and aida... she should NEVER play amneris

#18

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:44pm

oh dear

read dg2/28/94's casting (especially wicked)

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#19

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:53pm

I actually kind of like the idea of Susan Blackwell as Adelaide...

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#20

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:53pm

What are you talking about? Tila Tequila would make one hell of a Christmas Eve in Avenue Q.

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#21

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:54pm

umm paris hilton and tila tequila? yeah wtf are you smoking?

#22

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 8:30pm

They would sell tickets and they would be replaced quickly and it would be hillorus

and it is a HE

Updated On: 12/7/08 at 08:30 PM

#23

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 9:26pm

Sutton Foster is too young to play Dolly Levi? If I'm not mistaken she's now 33.

Barbra Streisand was 27 when she played Dolly in the movie.

HUH? Or maybe that was the point?

#24

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 9:54pm

Didn't Jerry Herman say recently he wasn't crazy about Bernadette as Dolly? But he said he thinks Patti is a great idea for the role. It was an article where he discussed many different actresses who he felt could or could not play the role.

I don't think we'll see Bernadette as Dolly.

#25

re: What if Sutton Foster...?

Posted: 12/7/08 at 10:03pm

Wasn't Streissand 26 in the movie?

I would love to see Bette Midler play Dolly Levi!

And Bernadette Peters, but that'll never happen.

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