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actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#25re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 4:53pmI saw Julie on her last night, it was so much fun! But liza probally could add a different taste to the role. I would have still liked to see her.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#26re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 4:59pm
She wasn't that good to me. I saw her first night and they had to add crap for costume changes and they cut out a few songs (If I were a Man) and I just didn't like her performance. I like Liza but I think she is really overrated.
I heard Raquel Welch was pretty bad too.
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#27re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:11pmVictor/ victoria to me was hard to adapt into a musical but i still liked it. the material is very 'different"
#28re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:13pmI hate to say it, but Laura Benanti in THE WEDDING SINGER.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#29re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:16pm
^ I don't think she was miscast.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#30re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:16pm
Patti LuPone in SUNSET BLVD.
Whoa.. Were you even born when she did Sunset Blvd?
mikeyb16
Broadway Star Joined: 1/22/06
#31re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:25pm
WICKED - Rue McClanahan as Madame Morrible, she was absolutely TERRIBLE in the role, why she was cast I don't know.
Both David Ayers & Joey McIntyre for Fiyero no interest & terrible voices.
JLT for Glinda - A great singer but the acting made Glinda's character an absolute Air-Head.
Shoshana Bean was okay but the acting was over the top. And finally, Kate Reinders, Nothing personal but she was 'Nuts' and made Glinda a crazy physco.
#32re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:27pmNathanLaneStalker - I liked her acting, but I found her voice just wasn't right for the music.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#33re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:28pmI think ethel merman was miscast in life in general, but i particularly hated her in hello dolly. she bothers me.
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever."
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#34re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:28pm
"Rue McClanahan as Madame Morrible"
I HAD NO IDEA SHE WAS IN IT! WHEN WAS THIS!?
#35re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:29pm^ I believe it was 2005. I think Bernadette Peters in Gypsy. I heard her Rose's turn and she didn't sound to right for the part. Updated On: 12/27/06 at 05:29 PM
#36re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:37pm
You should've SEEN her in Gypsy. It was so much like watching her AS Momma Rose, but more like watching her TRY to BE Momma Rose. I know this one divides people like crazy, but I found her inexcusably dreadful. There simply wasn't a moment of her performance that I bought...it was just watching a woman woefully uncomfortable in her own skin, trapped on stage in a role that she couldn't sing.
It actually made me angry. A performer of her talent and experience should just plain know better than to take a role for the vanity/diva factor of being able to say you played Momma Rose.
Muhlethaler
Featured Actor Joined: 10/13/06
#37re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:44pmUpdated On: 8/31/11 at 05:44 PM
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#38re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:47pm
To answer an earlier question:
Vanessa Williams did a lot of character developement for the Witch...she was not a revelation, but she was dark, and brought a rather raw sensuality to the her role in the second act. I only watched Peters on the DVD, but from what I saw there, I preferred Williams' interpretation more. It was felt a little edgier and riskier (but, again, not a revelation).
I agree about McClanahan...she seemed drunk the entire time.
Nancy Opel in the Fiddler revival...she seemed so uncomfortable in her role.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#39re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 5:49pmNancy Opel was most defnitly not miscast in Fiddler.
#40re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:03pmI saw Bernadette in Gypsy... and I liked her then, but comparing her to other who have been Mama Rose (mainly Bette Midler), Mrs. Peters was awful.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#41re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:04pmOh! Sarah Jessica Parker in Once Upon a Mattress.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#42re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:27pm
jerry lewis in damn yankees
richard kind in DRS
melanie griffith in chicago
david ayers, jeffrey kuhn, rue mcclanahan, ben vereen,kate reinders and shoshana bean in wicked
I've noticed that elphabas tend to go downhill about halfway through their run... Recall if you will when idina started screaming shoshana was the best thing since sliced bread when she performed(in standby capacity) and so on
#43re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:52pm
greengirl, on what are you basing your statement that Merman was miscast as Dolly? You write that you "particularly hated her" in the show, which makes it sound like you saw her in it, but I'm kind of doubting that you did judging from your photo and from what you write in other posts.
Merman was the original choice for the role, and I think she was quite right for it.
Re Vanessa Williams in ITW: For me she came off as too nice. She didn't seem to have the acting ability to overcome what seems to be an innate niceness in her personality (which, of course, may just be what comes across onstage and not what she's really like).
That having been said, I didn't much like Peters in the role, either. Betsy Joslyn was terrific in the role when she played it later in the original Broadway run and on tour.
#44re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:53pm
Daphne in les mis and Haylie Duff in hairspray
sorry to disagree with a lot of you, but I love Shoshana Bean 
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#45re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:17pmI AGREE 110% WITH BROADWAY BABY 4
Hiram
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/06
#46re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:28pmBernadette Peters in GYPSY.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#47re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:36pm
Hasselhoff in J/H
Melanie Griffith in Chicago
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#48re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:36pm
Loretta Swit in Drood
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#50re: actors that were miscast in some of you fav. musicals
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:47pmI don't know if this counts but the two actors I saw in the North Shore Music Theatre's Production of Kiss Me, Kate who played Lois and Harrison were absolutely terrible. Lois could not act and Harrison played the role straight. He didn't play the role like some macho mysoginist schmuck. His performance was very, "I think I've got a valid point to make." And I sat there thinking, "Huh, I see what you mean." In other words, he made Harrison far too sympathetic. They were cracks in what I thought was an otherwise gem of a production.
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