Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
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Swing Joined: 1/5/10
#1Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 8:12pm
For me, I would love to see Jennifer Hudson's take on Elphaba. Her voice would be absolutely killer for her, but she'd have to tone it down when she does multiple shows. But just imagine her belt, which is already so powerful in that song, and all the things she can do!!!!!!
Galinda...it's hard for me because I haven't seen too many sopranos.
#2Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 8:23pmSteve Martin and Dan Ackroyd
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#3Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 8:25pm
Ethel Merman and Mary Martin
Marian Anderson and Maria Callas
Judi Dench and Helen Mirren
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#4Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 8:28pm
Hudson doesn't have the right range or stamina to play Elphie. If you'd take the time to actually listen to her overall range, you'd know that. Just because she can belt (improperly) doesn't make her right for the role.
I vote for Stritch. Would love to see her take on the role.
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#6Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:13pmHillary Clinton as Elphaba and Sarah Palin as Glinda.
#7Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:17pmMargaret Hamilton/Billie Burke
#8Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:25pm
South Fl Marc I was gonna say that and you beat me to it!
I'd like to see Lady GaGa as Elphaba and Britney Spears as Glinda.
Or if that doesn't work out, maybe Amy Winehouse and Madonna.
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Updated On: 1/5/10 at 10:25 PM
#9Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:28pmBoy, that is one old pig! She has changed a lot over the years.
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#10Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:50pm
Hahaha. All of these are great!
On a serious note though...
I would love to see Kristen Bell (sp?) play Glinda. I think she'd be great. Perhaps Lea Salonga as Elphaba? Idk. Anyone new would be great. I loved when they brought in Nicole Parker. She was someone fresh and new (and fantastic).
Updated On: 1/6/10 at 10:50 PM
#11Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:51pmCindy Williams and Penny Marshall
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#12Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 12:26am
Susan Boyle as Elphaba and Lady Gaga as Glinda
or maybe the other way around.
#13Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 12:29amElaine Stritch as Elphaba and Angela Lansbury as Glinda
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 1/6/10 at 12:29 AM
#14Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 12:32amarts, I would have to imagine that the cherry picker would get stuck pretty much every night with that casting.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
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#15Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 12:46amI would love to see Lea Salonga as Elphaba!
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#16Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 1:02amI would love to see Rachel York in either role.
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#17Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 8:14amHow about Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselback? Doesn't matter which role either takes.
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#18Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 8:18amLucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz
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#19Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 8:28am
Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Willem Dafoe at matinees.
Alternating.
"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
#20Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 8:42amJoan Rivers and Kathy Griffin
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#21Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 8:42amJulie Andrews as Glinda and Carol Burnett and Elphaba.... seriously!! They'd be awesome!
#22Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 8:55am
Glinda: Bernadette Peters
Elphaba: Patti LuPone
If I absouletly HAD to go with someone ago appropriate, I'd suggest Diana DeGarmo for Elphaba.
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-- Thomas Jefferson
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#23Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 9:03am
Galinda: Gavin Creel
Elphaba: Will Swenson
...and they'll lead the cast members up the aisles in the theater burning draft cards during "Defying Gravity".
#24Who Would You Like to See Play Elphaba/Galinda
Posted: 1/6/10 at 9:10amHmmm...Defying Gravity done in the nude? The lyrics would certainly take on new meaning.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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