Posted: 2/10/21 at 5:21am
Bettyboy72 said: "I’d dig Pink or Kelly Clarkson in Next To Normal."
Is it too much to ask they have the acting chops to play the role?
Posted: 2/10/21 at 7:49am
sirpaieg said: "However, little do most of his fans know, Jackman's earliest breakout roles in acting did not come from clawing up bad guys in the X-Men movies. It came from working on Broadway."
I happened to be in London on a business trip and decided to look up some shows in 1999. Since I liked Rodgers&Hammerstein, I picked up dress circle seats to see the show (but couldn't see the performers' faces too well), which at that time, I thought was the least appealing of their shows to me, Oklahoma!. Didn't know the lead but he had a commanding stage presence and a powerful voice. I found out much later that he was nominatedf for an Olivier for his role as Curly... I waited for him to come back to another West End show ...but it seems that while in Oklahoma!, he was seen in the show by the XMen producer, LaurenSDonner ( who will eventually produce all his XMen films for FOX)...and that meeting eventually led to Wolverine. Before that, he was Gaston in Beauty&The Beast and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard in his native Australia. But he had already done a dramatic movie (Erskineville Kings) in Australia which was a forerunner of other dramatic movies he would eventually make ( TheFountain, The Prestige, Prisoners, Logan which has more dramatic gravitas than any other comicbook movie). He did win a TONY for his first role on Broadway (TheBoy from Oz in 2003/04) which came after he had made a name in Hollywood.
More recently, he did a complete turnabout - a very layered performance in Bad Education which was critically-raved about. I did get to see him in his 2 Broadway plays. Too bad that the initial interest to adapt A Steady Rain to film never happened after some initial interest from Spielberg. Both he and Daniel Craig were excellent in that play about rogue cops from Chicago.
He is theatre-trained ( dramatic theatre, not musical theatre) so it was no surprise that he would come back to Broadway a number of times.
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Posted: 2/10/21 at 10:56am
A Director said: "Bettyboy72 said: "I’d dig Pink or Kelly Clarkson in Next To Normal."
Is it too much to ask they have the acting chops to play the role?
I think they could deliver with a solid director and supporting cast especially Pink. Both are exceptional vocalists who deliver emotionally in their songs. They easily channel emotion to tell a story in song.
I mean after she won the Tony Alice was giving different performances nightly some that veered into Kabuki territory. I think Pink or Kelly would be fine.
Posted: 2/10/21 at 11:03am
Pink, maybe. Kelly Clarkson has been very forward about how she doesn't like acting and isn't good at it.
Posted: 2/10/21 at 11:30am
darquegk said: "Pink, maybe. Kelly Clarkson has been very forward about how she doesn't like acting and isn't good at it."
I suppose but has she really tried since From Justin to Kelly. She’s almost 40 and has lived a lot. I’ve seen her perform. She acts during songs. You feel every word. I’d be curious to see how she does in a musical. I also feel like she would fare better in a melancholy show rather than some toe tapper. I think she’d be out of her element there even though she has a perky persona. I think she brings more to darker material.
Maybe Justin could be her Dan? Lol
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Now you've got me thinking about that! What an absolutely mind-blowing experience that would be.
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NOWaWarning said: "I’d love for Nicole Kidman to come back to Broadway, as I have never seen her onstage. I think she’d probably be an amazing Blanche DuBois, but we’ve seen that show an awful lot. Maybe she could do some great new play.
Nicole as Blanche I can totally get on board with.
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Alfre Woodard as Caroline.
