Why isn't Brittany Murphy starring Sweet Charity?

christina is a trained dancer. she has taken a lot more than "one class"

she is mountains better than brittany murphy ever could wish to be.

it all went downhill after clueless. you know it's sad when your first movie is your best.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why anyone would use the words "great actress" and Brittany Murphy. Could you explain why you think she is great? She hasn't shown much range in her ten plus years as an actress. She makes one crappy movie after another. She's unpleasant to look at and unpleasant to listen to. I'm miffed by her film success. Who cares why she hasn't starred on Broadway recently. Just be grateful she hasn't.

I know that Christina Applegate has taken more than one class, but she is not a dancer.

I've enjoyed Brittany Murphy's work in a number of films, and thought she was great in A View From The Bridge. I think she started strong right out of the gate. Yes, some her films have been formulaic studio pics, but I definitely think she has something special about her that warrants her notice as an actress. I've had a soft spot for her ever since she was a spunky curly haired girl on Drexell's Class.

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That's funny, because I was just about to say how amazing it would be if Sarah Jessica could've been Charity at some point...

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I don't understand how you can say she hasn't shown much range. The Torkelsons, Clueless, Girl Interrupted, King of the Hill, Don't Say A Word, Cherry Falls - all completely different characters from one another.

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thank you munk.

First of all I want to say that I'm so proud of Christina for realizing her dream of being on Broadway. She truly deserves it.

Secondly, I find Brittany Murphy to be really fascinating. She's something of an enigma. Her sometimes daffy persona is either real or a calculated performance that she knows how to turn on and off at will. Her acting career has been like a roller coaster. I first saw her in The Torkelsons/Almost Home on tv where she was very amusing and not really that over the top most of the time. Then there was Clueless where she was quite funny if a bit much. After that she did several smaller roles, some of them wacky and flamboyant (Freeway, Drop Dead Gorgeous) and others more subdued (David and Lisa). She was a bit over the line in parts of her performance in Girl, Interrupted, but it was still clear that there was something there and maybe she just needed to reign it in. More somewhat over the top performances followed in Don't Say a Word and Riding in Cars with Boys. However, in 8 Mile her role was rather low-key and she didn't really use any big gestures or affectations. The downside was that the movie didn't really seem to know for sure who her character was or what she wanted. Her more recent roles (Just Married, Uptown Girls, Little Black Book, Sin City) have all been over the top, but not without moments of interest. Additionally, from 1997 she's given a wonderful performance as Luanne on Fox's King of the Hill...a cartoon character, which may be telling us something. I'd be really intrigued to see what she would do on stage. I know she can sing, but the question of whether her acting choices are the result of her own misundertanding of what effective acting is or mishandling by directors is unclear.

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Updated On: 5/1/05 at 02:16 PM

Munk, I did see it. Thanks!

And by the by, I wasn't impressed with her technique on stage at the Hirschfield, in the rehearsal footage, or in the episode of Married With Children where she danced with the janitor. She can dance, she's not a dancer.

And like I said, I don't mean to put down Applegate, but I do like Murphy, and I would have liked to have seen what she would have done with the role. I also was wondering why she wasn't headlining the revival considering her desire to do it(at least at one point) and the fact(I believe) that her star shines brighter than Christina Applegate's.

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i much prefer applegate to murphy

I just saw Sweet Charity on Saturday, and really respected everything Christina did, especially her acting. I thought she did a great job. However, this thought of Brittany Murphy is really interesting. I too have been a fan through everything since The Torkelsons, only less so since she started the coke/bony/Maxim/Kutcher binges. However, I would be totally fascinated to see what she could do in this. She has the perfect personality for Charity.

Thanks, buffyactsing.