Your Dream Cast for a Show

[jagfkb]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:55pm

i'll go first:

A Little Night Music:
Desiree: Bernadette Peters
Fredrick: Boyd Gaines
Count: Michael Ceveris
Charlotte: Maureen Moore
Petra: Deborah Messing
Frid: Andy Karl
Henrik: Christian Borle
Anne: Sierra Bogess
Fredrika: Allie Trimm

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 4:13pm

Wow, that's a great cast! Although Christian Borle is a little old for Henrik, and I'm the perfect age

[bwaybud]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 4:34pm

Les Miserables
Valjean- Vin Diesel
Javert/Young cosette- Dakota Fanning
Fantine- Stew
Marius- James Earl Jones
Eponine- Danielle Radcliffe
Cosette- Richard Griffiths
mdm thenard: jack black
Thenard: ben stiller

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 5:36pm

Thanks for the nightmares, bwaybud!

SWEENEY TODD
Sweeney: Norm Lewis (can't believe I missed seeing him in the role)
Lovett: Susan Egan (Just want to see her take on the role.)
Antony: Mmmm... Edward Watts.
Johanna: Very talented unknown (Ed Watts is an unknown, too, come to that.)
Lucy: Nikki Renee Daniels
Judge: Terrence Mann (JAVERT VS. JAVERT)
Beadle: John Treacy Egan!
Pirelli: Christian Borle
Toby: Brian D'Addario

Also, I'd love to see Michael Ball as Sir Percy Blakeney in "The Scarlet Pimpernel."

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:38pm

I think Leigh Ann Larkin would be great as Petra. I would die to hear her sing Miller's Son.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:42pm

What's that show where the guy and the girl make out a lot? I think I should be the girl, and Matt Morrison should be the guy. That's PERFECT casting right there!

*ahem*

[jagfkb]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 9:14pm

The Will Rogers Follies:
Will Rogers: Nathan Lane
Betty Blake: Laura Benanti
Ziegfeld's Favorite: Megan Sikora
Clem Rogers: Rob Bartlett

South Pacific:
Nellie: Kristen Chenoweth
Emile: James Barbour
Bloody Mary: (If she was phillipeno) Patti Lu Pone

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 11:08am

Call me crazy or anything you wish...

Les Mis:
Valjean: Mandy Patinkin
Javert: Tim Curry
Marius: Jim Sturgess
Fantine: Bonnie Tyler
Bishop: Meat Loaf
Thenardier: Mark Hamill (traditional voice-actor of The Joker in the 90s)
Mme. Thenardier: Jane Krakowski
Enjolras: Joe Anderson
Grantaire: Curtis Holbrook
Montparnasse: Martin Short
Cosette: Anne Hathaway
Eponine: Celia Keenan-Bolger

Admit it...some part of you would LOVE this.

Updated On: 9/21/08 at 11:08 AM

[into_the_woods2]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 11:57am

i really love your les mis cast...but anne hathaway as cosette ruins it. i mean, come on. she has hardly proven herself as a singer much less a strong, classical soprano.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 12:26pm

Um... she has, actually. Try the ebuTuoY.

I actually spontaneously spewed out a 'Les Mis' cast list in my LiveJournal this morning.

Valjean - John Owen-Jones. Why not? He's damn good! So :P to Colm Wilkinson fangirls.
Javert - Philip Quast. Terrence Mann can bite me. There is literally only one definitive Javert as far as I'm concerned.
Fantine - Lea Salonga. YEAH I SAID IT. Having never been particularly impressed with her Eponine, she managed to blow me away with her Fantine. Let's keep that.
Thenardier - Gary Beach. I really don't have any preferences for either Thenardier but I do love Gary Beach.
Madame Thenardier - *shrugs* anyone'll do. Maybe I'd lean more towards the Tracie Bennett side than the Jenny Galloway side though...
Marius - Michael Ball. It's not that I *want* Michael Ball as Marius, it's more that I find it incredibly difficult to accept anyone else.
Enjolras - Anthony Warlow plskthxbai! *_* (Although someone suggested that Darius Danesh might make a nice Enjolras, and I would be totally down with that if he wanted to do it.)
Cosette - ANYONE but that shrill harridan from the CSR! Ali Ewoldt if you want her to look like her mother, Judy Kuhn if you really don't care.
Eponine - well, I can think of three Eponines I really like. Kaho Shimada if you don't mind a heavy Japanese accent, Frances Ruffelle if you're going old-skool, or Celia Keenan-Bolger, the only woman who's ever brought me to tears with her rendition of 'On My Own'. As long as she's a scrappy street-kid rather than a hottie with strategically-placed dirt, I'm happy.
Grantaire - Drew Sarich (shuttup I'm allowed to have a Grantaire preference, and it wouldn't feel like a complete cast if I didn't sneak Drew "IMA PLAY EVERYONE!" Sarich in somewhere).

I don't think I swore... but I am significantly more offensive in the privacy of my LJ than the public forum that is theatre discussion boards...

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 12:39pm

I'm scared!

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 3:04pm

Don't know if this is the right place to say this and my apologies for giving offense, but I STILL maintain that is it CRIMINAL that Curtis Holbrook isn't going to be Joey. He was BORN to play the role!!!!!! I LOVE that show and no one in front of the public today could do it as well as he. I has spoken, for the zillionth time.

[dayao]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 4:30pm

Dream Revival Cast for THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN
MOLLY: Tammy Blanchard
"LEADVILLE" JOHNNY BROWN: James Anest
BUTTERCUP GROGAN: Debbie Reynolds
SHAMUS TOBIN: Harve Presnell
GLADYS MacGRAW: Christine Baranski
PRINCE LOUIS: William Michals

[broadway86]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 4:46pm

"All About Eve"
Margo Channing - JUDY DAVIS
Eve Harrington - ANNE HATHAWAY
Addison DeWitt - ALAN RICKMAN
Karen Richards - VIRGINIA MADSEN
Bill Sampson - DENNIS QUAID
Lloyd Richards - GUY PEARCE
Birdie Coonan - RHEA PERLMAN
Max Fabian - TIMOTHY SPALL
Claudia Caswell - GRETCHEN MOL
Phoebe - KATE BOSWORTH
Distinguished Actor - CHRISTOPHER LEE

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Maggie - ANGELINA JOLIE
Brick - MARK RUFFALO
Big Daddy - BRIAN COX
Big Mama - CAMRYN MANHEIM

"Little Shop of Horrors"
Seymour Krelbourne - JACK NOSEWORTHY
Audrey - MIRA SORVINO
Orin, etc. - CHRIS KATTAN
Mr. Mushnik - ALFRED MOLINA
Urchins - I dunno... Destiny's Child?

"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Blanche DuBois - CATE BLANCHETT
Stanley Kowalski - CHRISTIAN BALE
Stella Kowalski - MARY-LOUISE PARKER
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell - JOHN C. REILLY

"Burn This"
Pale - ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
Anna - ASHLEY JUDD
Burton - CHRISTOPHER MELONI
Larry - DALLAS ROBERTS

"The Shadow Box"
Joe - TIMOTHY HUTTON
Maggie - EDIE FALCO
Agnes - MARISA TOMEI
Brian - KEVIN SPACEY
Felicity - MARIAN SELDES
Mark - BILLY CRUDUP
Beverly - DEBRA MESSING

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Martha - STOCKARD CHANNING
George - BILL PULLMAN
Nick - RYAN GOSLING
Honey - HEATHER BURNS

"Our Town"
Stage Manager - WILLIAM H. MACY
Emily Webb - ALEXIS BLEDEL
George Gibbs - EMILE HIRSCH
Mrs. Gibbs - BECKY ANN BAKER
Dr. Gibbs - JAMES REBHORN
Editor Webb - STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY
Mrs. Webb - CHRISTINE EBERSOLE
Simon Stimson - JOHN GLOVER
Mrs. Soames - JUNE SQUIBB

"Marat/Sade"
The Marquis de Sade - IAN McKELLEN
Jean-Paul Marat - RALPH FIENNES
The Herald - PETER MacNICOL
Charlotte Corday - HOPE DAVIS
M. Coulmier - CARY ELWES
Simmone Evrard - AMANDA PLUMMER
Duperret - JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
Jacques Roux - BILLY BOYD

"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Nick Bottom - KENNETH BRANAGH
Titania/Hippolyta - TILDA SWINTON
Puck - ZACH BRAFF
Oberon/Theseus - JIMMY SMITS
Helena - SIENNA MILLER
Demetrius - ORLANDO BLOOM
Hermia - NAOMIE HARRIS
Lysander - CRAIG GALLIVAN
Peter Quince - ROWAN ATKINSON
Egeus - IAN McDIARMID

"Suessical: The Musical"
The Cat in the Hat - MARTIN SHORT
Horton the Elephant - JACK BLACK
Gertrude McFuzz - JAMIE LYNN DiSCALA
Mayzie LaBird - ANA GASTEYER
General Schmitz - WILL FERRELL
Sour Kangaroo - LORETTA DEVINE
The Mayor of Whoville - EUGENE LEVY
Mrs. Mayor - DEBRA JO RUPP

"Bye Bye Birdie!"
Rosie Alvarez - CATHERINE ZETA-JONES
Albert Peterson - SETH MacFARLANE
Kim MacAfee - AMANDA SEYFRIED
Mae Peterson - DEBRA MONK
Harry MacAfee - RICHARD KIND
Hugo Peabody - JUSTIN LONG
Conrad Birdie - JAMES CARPINELLO

"The Glass Menagerie"
Amanda Wingfield - BETH GRANT
Tom Wingfield - EDWARD NORTON
Laura Wingfield - AMY ADAMS
Jim O'Connor - JONNY LEE MILLER

"The Rocky Horror Show"
Dr. Frank 'N' Furter - JIM CARREY
Narrator - JOHN CLEESE
Janet Weiss - AMY ADAMS
Brad Majors - STEPHEN LYNCH
Eddie/Dr. Scott - JACK BLACK
Riff Raff - CONSTANTINE MAROULIS
Columbia - BRITTANY MURPHY
Magenta - ROSARIO DAWSON
Rocky Horror - JASON LEWIS
Rocky (Singing Voice) - ADAM PASCAL

"A Delicate Balance"
Agnes - MIA FARROW
Tobias - LEN CARIOU
Claire - KAREN BLACK
Harry - RAY WISE
Edna - JANE ALEXANDER
Julia - FRANCES O'CONNOR

"Five Women Wearing the Same Dress"
Trish - JENNIFER GARNER
Georgeanne - TARA REID
Meredith - MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL
Mindy - CLEA DuVALL
Francis - MONICA POTTER
Trip - JOSHUA JACKSON

"The Miss Firecracker Contest"
Carnelle Scott - MENA SUVARI
Elain Rutledge - CHRISTINA APPLEGATE
Delmount Williams - DAVID ARQUETTE
Popeye Jackson - HEATHER MATARAZZO
Tessy Mahoney - SARAH SILVERMAN
Mac Sam - BRIAN VAN HOLT

"The Country Girl"
Georgie Elgin - CYNTHIA NIXON
Frank Elgin - JOHN SLATTERY
Bernie Dodd - MARK RUFFALO

"Fifth of July"
Kenneth Talley Jr. - PETER SARSGAARD
Gwen Landis - MARISA TOMEI
Jed Jenkins - JOAQUIN PHOENIX
John Landis - PETER KRAUSE
Aunt Sally Friedman - MIA FARROW
June Talley - HOPE DAVIS
Weston Hurley - JUSTIN LONG
Shirley Talley - DAVEIGH CHASE

"Hurlyburly"
Eddie – CHRISTIAN BALE
Phil – BARRY PEPPER
Mickey – JOSH LUCAS
Darlene – AMANDA PEET
Bonnie – RACHEL McADAMS
Artie - WILLIE GARSON
Donna – ELLEN PAGE

"Restoration Comedy"
John Loveless - ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
Amanda - GWYNETH PALTROW
Mr. Worthy - CHRISTIAN BALE
Sir Novelty Fashion - ALAN RICKMAN
Berinthia - EMILY BLUNT
Narcissa - LUCY PUNCH
Young Fashion - HUGH DANCY
Hillaria - PATRICIA HEATON

"Macbeth"
Macbeth - JUDE LAW
Lady Macbeth - JENNIFER CONNELLY
Macduff - CLIVE OWEN
Malcolm - JAMES McAVOY
Banquo - KARL URBAN
King Duncan - IAN McDIARMID
Lady Macduff - LYNN COLLINS

"The Threepenny Opera"
Mack the Knife - JAMES MARSDEN
Polly Peachum - JENNIFER GARNER
Mr. J.J. Peachum - JOHN LITHGOW
Mrs. Celia Peachum - CHRISTINE BARANSKI
Jenny Diver - JANE LEEVES
Tiger Brown - BILL NIGHY
Lucy Brown - IDINA MENZEL Updated On: 9/21/08 at 04:46 PM

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 7:34pm

I'd love to see Gypsy with Beth Leavel and Sierra Boggess! Both have strenghts in acting and singing.

[Byron Abens]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 8:16pm

Dream cast?

Find a way to bring Judy Garland back from the dead so Follies can be revived with her playing Carlotta. Imagine that voice, with that personal history, belting out I'm Still Here.

Bring Teresa Stratas or one of the other great sopranos out of retirement to sing One Last Kiss.

Give Angela Lansbury the strength to make it through eight shows a week for Hattie and Broadway Baby. (And I don't say that to be mean, but because she said herself during Deuce that eight shows a week has gotten very hard for her now.)

Edith Piaf for Solange. You couldn't find a more authentic voice for Ah, Paris!

Those are all the roles I feel like casting with the impossible for right now. Feel free to fill in the blanks.

[choked_on_tittup]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 9:24pm

WICKED

Elphaba: Idina Menzel
Galinda: Kristin Chenoweth (or possibly Brittany Snow)
Fyiero: Robert Pattinson
Boq: Alan Cumming
Madame Morrible: Maggie Smith or Miranda Richardson or Kathy Bates
Wizard: VICTOR GARBER
Nessarose: Newcomer

[laura is broadway]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 9:29pm

This may sound ignorant, but can Deborah Messing sing?

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 9:32pm

Does anyone else think Sutton Foster would be a great Louise?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/22/08 at 6:26am

Choked-- Victor Garber for Wizard indeed! That's perfect casting. I have to admit, he's kind of what I always imagined.

As for Rob Pattinson, though, well, I guess we'd have to see if he can sing. He certainly looks like the pretty boy that Fiyero's supposed to be.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/22/08 at 6:30am

I feel bad for Robert Pattinson. Every time he gets cast in a film that's based on a popular read for kids/teenagers (so twice then), my first thought is nearly always "... but he isn't pretty enough!". He's certainly not bad-looking in the slightest, but he's not exactly the paragon of unearthly beauty that is called for in 'Twilight'...

Updated On: 9/22/08 at 06:30 AM

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 9/22/08 at 11:19am

LES MIZ DREAM CAST

Jean Valjean: Colm Wilkinson... He IS Valjean. No one matches him in the role.

Javert: Philip Quast... He IS Javert. Again, he is the definitive and only Javert.

Fantine: Lea Salonga

Enjolras: Anthony Warlow

Marius: Michael Ball... He IS Marius. The voice, his acting and his whole take on the role is still to this day miles above any other actor to play the role (that I have seen/heard.

Cosette: Emmy Rossum

Eponine: TOUGH one as she is my favorite character in my favorite musical ever... I say Diana Karrina... I think

Thenardier: Barry James. He IS Thnardier. Just emodies the character like no one else ever has or ever will.

Mme Thenardier: Rosie O'Donnell

Updated On: 9/22/08 at 11:19 AM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:56pm

I don't find Rob Pattinson attractive, either, but I always seem to be attracted to the 'wrong' person. Case in point-- in Harry Potter, I love Matthew Lewis (who plays Neville) and James and Oliver Phelps (who play Fred and George). When my class went to see Romeo and Juliet at the Shakespeare Theatre, everyone swooned over Romeo except for me... I was all about Benvolio. I think the most attractive person in the Les Miserables revival cast was not Adam Jacobs, not Aaron Lazar, not Drew Sarich, but Norm Lewis. And I think in Pirates of the Caribbean that Jack Davenport, who played Norrington, is much more attractive than Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom. So I assumed that if I think Rob Pattinson looks like a mannequin with no character at all, then everyone else would think he was hot.

[H.Higgins]

Posted: 9/22/08 at 3:22pm

My Fair Lady

Eliza Doolittle: Laura Benanti
Henry Higgins: Tim Curry
Alfred Doolittle: Jim Dale
Colonel Pickering: Robert Stattel
Freddy Eynsford-Hill: Gavin Creel
Mrs. Higgins: Carole Shelley

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/22/08 at 4:57pm

That list has some great ideas, broadway86! Tell me, you had that all prepped and ready to go, right?

*faints*