Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

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Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:05pm

What's the worst possible casting for a revival that you can think of? Celebrity or Broadway Star, whatever.

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#2

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:10pm

Patti LuPone in SWEENEY TODD

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re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:43pm

Paris Hilton in THE APPLE TREE

#4

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:50pm

Daphne Rubin-Vega in Les Miserables

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Your latest 7in sounds obscene unless you spin it at a 45.

#5

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:53pm

the next to normal movie starring MILEY CYRUS as NATALIE and NICK JONAS as GABE

#6

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:54pm

Faith Prince in THE LITTLE MERMAID.

Just as was the case with her starring in the ill-fated Broadway revival of BELLS ARE RINGING -- idea worked better in our heads than on stage.

#7

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:55pm

CHRISTIAN HOFF

is

PAL JOEY!

#8

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:56pm

At least Nick Jonas has done Broadway. Joe would be a far scarier prospect. O_O

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#9

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:02pm

i really don't know the difference between any of the jonas brothers, hahah

#10

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:09pm

SWEENEY TODD 2010 REVIVAL:

Starring

IDINA MENZEL as Mrs Lovett

JOSH GROBAN as Sweeney Todd

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Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

#11

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:11pm

Imaginary: Bailey Hanks as Florence in Chess.

Real: Harvey Fierstien in Fiddler on the Roof.

#12

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:19pm

Mario Lopez in A Chorus Line
Katie Holmes in, well, anything

#13

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:26pm

joe's been on broadway as well, actually.

#14

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:29pm

Daphne Rubin Vega as Fantine
Josh Groban and Idina as Anatoly and Florence

#15

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:34pm

worst possible casting: Rosie O'Donnell in anything on Broadway.. not that she belongs in tv or film either..

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re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:48pm

Paris Hilton as Mame

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re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:09pm

Harvey Fierstein
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Billy Elliot!

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#18

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:58pm

Wasn't Susan Lucci in "Annie Get Your Gun"?

If so...enough said.

#19

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:04pm

Imaginary: Elaine Stritch in Oh! Calcutta!

Real: Several of the replacements in Chicago (Melanie Griffith)

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#20

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:43pm

This one goes out to anyone who ever heard the original cast of Godspell.

Lamar Alford as Collins in Rent

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#21

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:46pm

Kerry Butler as Mama Rose. Love Kerry Butler, but that would be bad casting...

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#22

re: Worst Posstible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:52pm

I liked mario in a chorus line...

Felicia P Fields as Elphaba
rosie in ANYTHING
Stockard Channing in Pal Joey

#23

re: Worst Possible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 10:01pm

Mario was a very bad choice. ACL requires an actor, not dimples.

"Paris Hilton in THE APPLE TREE"

Who'd want to see Paris Hilton in The Apple Tree?

Updated On: 7/7/09 at 10:01 PM

#24

re: Worst Possible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:21pm

I agree with Rosie, especially with Fiddler on the Roof. From what I heard that was an awful choice.

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#25

re: Worst Possible Casting Ideas

Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:30pm

"I agree with Rosie, especially with Fiddler on the Roof. From what I heard that was an awful choice."

She wasn't as bad as Harvey was as Tevye.

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