ideal cast for your favorite show
ideal cast for your favorite show
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#1ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/26/11 at 11:04pmJust curious, if you could all cast one broadway show name your ideal cast for your favorite show just thought it'd be fun.
PennybankBill
Stand-by Joined: 11/1/10
#2ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/27/11 at 2:54am
It's so common for people to post these kind of threads - and it's a little bit relentless, as is the reply I'm about to give. So I feel bad for reinforcing this kind of thing.
BUT, I think Bernadette Peters needs to play Mrs Lovett. Her vulnerability etc.. could bring new life to "Wait".
Also, I'd love to see Mandy Patinkin as Sweeney (If paired with Bernadette). I think his performance would be polarising, between a laughable disastrous mess and a brilliantly terrifying, manic performance. But I can just imagine him performing "Epiphany" and seem truly, truly insane. His crazy falsetto might be ironically funny for some songs like "Johanna". It would be so interesting to hear him sing again with Bernadette, in "My Friends" and "Little Priest" etc.
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
Updated On: 6/27/11 at 02:54 AM
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#3ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/27/11 at 6:26amAs for the am i trolling response, no i'm just curious to see peoples ideas, and yes i know that's why i thought we could try to have some combined thread of some sort for every show seemed like a good idea.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/27/11 at 1:20pm
It is SO difficult to read your threads. Upper case letters and periods really are your friend.
(I'm really NOT being snarky, but I had to read each of your threads over several times to understand them.)
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Nettik
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
LegallyBroadway2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/10
#6ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:57am
SEUSSICAL
THE MUSICAL
THE REVIAL.
FYEA QUEEN LATIFAH AS THE SOUR KANGAROO
LADY GAGA AS THE CAT IN THE HAT
KATY PERRY AS GERTRUDE
JONAS BROTHERS AS THE F**KING WICKERSHAM BROTHERS
BEYONCE AS MAYZIE
JUSTIN BIEBER PIP SQUEAK JOJO
SOME FAT GUY FOR HORTON.
BITCHES LIKE CASTING.
#7ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/28/11 at 10:19pm
LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA:
Margaret-Marin Mazzie
Clara-Sierra Boggess
Fabrizio-Kyle Dean Massey
NEXT TO NORMAL:
Diana-Sherie Rene Scott
Dan-Norbert Leo Butz
Natalie-Alex Socha
Gabe-Matt Shingledecker or Matt Doyle
Doctors-Will Chase
Henry-Christopher J. Hanke
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#8ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/28/11 at 10:35pmCan i just say yes and yes to those last two suggestions they are awesome.
mrweasel2
Swing Joined: 5/21/11
#9ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/28/11 at 10:53pm
Crazy For You
Bobby: Matt Cavenaugh
Polly: Sutton Foster
Zangler: Tom Wopat
Irene: Laura Benanti
Lank: Christopher J. Hank
Updated On: 6/28/11 at 10:53 PM
hhaarriissoonn
Swing Joined: 6/27/11
#10ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/29/11 at 11:27am
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...not my absolute favorite but one of them.
Joseph-Andrew Rannells
Narrator -Sutton Foster/Patina Miller
Jacob- Bryan D'arcy James
Pharaoh- Norbert Leo Butz
Updated On: 6/29/11 at 11:27 AM
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#11ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/29/11 at 11:52am
I agree about the Seussical revial...just not the snarkiness...
Cat in the Hat-Norbert Leo Butz (POSSIBLY)
JoJo- Hate to say this but Justin Bieber could possibly be a JoJo(Aaron Carter in 2001)Think about it...
Horton- Josh Gad/Nathan Lane
Gertrude- Sutton Foster/Sherie Renee Scott
Mayzie- Kristen Chenoweth
Sour Kangaroo- Patina Miller
#12ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/29/11 at 12:25pm
Drowsy Chaperone:
Man-In-Chair: David Hyde Pierce
Janet: Jessica Goldyn
Chaperone: LuPone
Kitty: Cheno
Trix: Terri White
"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
PennybankBill
Stand-by Joined: 11/1/10
#13ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/29/11 at 12:42pm
Mrweasel2, I don't know what I was drinking, but when I first saw your Crazy For You cast, I thought it said Andrew Rannells as Bobby and Norbert Leo Butz as Zangler!
That said, here's my cast for CABARET
Emcee - Stefan Kurt
Sally Bowles - Jenna Russell
Cliff Bradshaw - Matt Cavenaugh
Fraulein Schneider - Joanna Gleason
Herr Schultz - Chip Zien
Ernst Ludwig - Norbert Leo Butz
PennybankBill
Stand-by Joined: 11/1/10
#14ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/29/11 at 10:28pm
Mrweasel2, I don't know what I was drinking, but when I first saw your Crazy For You cast, I thought it said Andrew Rannells as Bobby and Norbert Leo Butz as Zangler!
That said, here's my cast for CABARET
Emcee - Stefan Kurt
Sally Bowles - Jenna Russell
Cliff Bradshaw - Matt Cavenaugh
Fraulein Schneider - Joanna Gleason
Herr Schultz - Chip Zien
Ernst Ludwig - Norbert Leo Butz
#15ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/29/11 at 10:38pm
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES:
Georges: Brian Stokes Mitchell
Albin/Zaza: Nathan Lane
Jacob: Nick Adams
Jean-Michel: Justin Guarini
Anne Dindon: Mary Faber
Dindon/Renaud: Kelsey Grammer
Mrs. Dindon/Renaud: Bebe Neuwirth
Jacqueline: Karen Mason
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#16ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/30/11 at 1:19amI would love a King and I revival with either Laura Benanti or Jan Maxwell as Anna. Bartlert Sher as director too, please.
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#17ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 6/30/11 at 6:17am
A Little Night Music
Desiree Armfeldt: Patti LuPone
Fredrik Egerman: Brian Stokes Mitchell
Madame Armfeldt: Marian Seldes
Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm: Brian D'Arcy James
Countess Charlotte Malcolm: Emily Skinner
Henrik Egerman: Matt Doyle
Anne Egerman: Jill Paice
Petra: Marla Mindelle
Fredrika Armfeldt: Alexandra Socha
"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
#18ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 7/2/11 at 2:17am
Hairspray:
It seems funny to me that Christine Ebersole never played Velma Von Tussle. She seems to have a connection to the show. she's on the 2 disc soundtrack for the movie and was at the Final Peformance on Broadway. I think she would have been perfect. I also think Vanessa Williams would be an Amazing Velma. now i know that her being African American raises a few problems with a character like Velma. but race aside she would be perfect! I want to see Patti Labelle Play Motormouth Maybelle. I could also see Sherie Rene Scott playing Velma aswell. Michelle Pfeiffer as well- just to hear her take on 'Velma's Revenge". my favorite song in the musical that was cut!
Darreyl with an L!
random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#19ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 7/2/11 at 9:32am
I know this is a lofty idea but my ideal follies or an age approiate revival in a few years.
Hattie: Faith Prince (Many of you have commented that linda lavin was too 'hip' or 'looked to good to be hattie' and i agree plus prince would just tear down the house with broadway baby really hitting it right on home.)
Phyllis: Sherie rene scott or in about ten years laura benanti (Scott has the skills both vocally and dance wise to pull off phyllis, and her acting in the part would wow the audience.)
Stella Deems: Heather Headley (Headley would convey the neccessary bitterness of the jilted former follies girl with the cut short career, her whos that woman would really wow the audience and she mit bring some people to the theater.)
Ben: Marc Kudisch (Kubisch has the neccessary lower range and would be able to convery the self centered attitude approiatly as well generally singing the **** out of the score.)
Emily Whitman: Megan mullally (I don't know if she would accept a small role as this but given her voices lack of extreme strength she couldn't handle a bigger role. But she has done more dance heavy shows and could handle this part, plus her voice would fit perfectly in the part.)
Buddy: In ten or twenty years christopher fitzgerlad, but for right now i think the pick would be norbert leo butz.
Sally: (The hardest role to cast) For now my vote goes to marin mazzie who has proved she is a great actress and could handle the singing and acting called for. In a future revival ten or twenty years from now leann larkin.
Carlotta: How about donna murphy i know she's not as famous as most of the women who've gotten to sing the song but she would knock it out of the park and still play a convincing carlotta, who isn't so old it's laughable to hear about her twenty year old boyfriend. And people wanting and getting 'the works' from. Another idea Linda Eder anyone?
Updated On: 7/2/11 at 09:32 AM
wickedfan11
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/06
#20ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 7/2/11 at 9:38amI would love for Marin to play Sally. I love her performance of "Losing My Mind" from Sondheim: The Birthday Concert.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#21ideal cast for your favorite show
Posted: 7/2/11 at 9:51am
She Loves Me
Amalia - Audra McDonald or Amy Adams
Georg - Patrick Wilson
Ilona - Jane Krakowski
Kodaly - Antonio Banderas
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