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#1

non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 10:46pm

okay so sometimes you see a show and then you go home and listen to the OBC or revival album and wish that you could have a recording of the cast you just saw

now if you managed to follow that here's the question - anybody have casts that they wish they had recordings of or a replacement actor/actress you wish you could hear

here are mine
one's i've seen
susan egan and adam pascal in cabaret
susan egan in millie

ones i'd love to hear/see
taye diggs in wicked (don't get me wrong - i LOVE norbert but I would have loved to hear it!!)
idina in aida (same thing! sherie rules but I wish i could hear it)
barrett foa in avenue q (john rules but barrett is awesome!)

hopefully that makes some sense - i'd love to hear from you all
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Updated On: 8/9/04 at 10:46 PM

#2

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 10:50pm

That I've seen:
my Adam in Cabaret
Hunter Foster in The Producers (no one could beat Nathan and Matthew, I'm sure, but he's fantastic)
I know there are more, but moving on...

That I'd have loved to see:
Idina in Aida
Cary Shields in Rent
Raul in Cabaret
Sutton in Les Mis
A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 8/9/04 at 10:50 PM

#4

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 10:52pm

wish i saw marissa jaret winokur in grease
i wish they had a joey fatone in rent and lsoh recording i saw him in both
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
#5

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 10:54pm

Apparently Brooks said Foster was the best Bloom yet! Id love to see him in the role.

Id love to see:
Susan egan in "Millie"
Adam and Susan in "Cabaret"
Sutton and Hunter in "Les Mis"
Edit: Jai in Rent, Idina in Aida, Sherie in Rent, Roger as Leo in Producers
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Updated On: 8/10/04 at 10:54 PM

#10

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:03pm

brent barret jennifer holiday and caroline o'connor in chicago

lbb in wicked
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#12

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:06pm

Karen Ziemba and James Brennan in CRAZY FOR YOU - I saw them three times - twice on tour, once on Broadway.

But I do have recordings of them - audio and video... just not, uhh, "official" ones...


I WISH I'd seen Karen as Peggy Sawyer in "42nd Street" back in 1984. Or as either Morales or Cassie in A CHORUS LINE - she did both roles (among others) on tour.
#16

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:12pm

1 more- kenna ramsey in rent
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#19

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:16pm

Elaine Stritch as Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf" (she did the matinees -- actually I wish I'd seen Uta Hagen do the evening performances as well)

Nancy Opel as "Evita" (she did LuPone's matinees)

Ann Reinking as Cassie in ACL

Bebe Neuwirth as Sheila in ACL (1980 -- she was 22)

Liza Minnelli as Roxie Hart in "Chicago" (she played the role while Verdon was out having voice surgery -- I also wish I'd seen Verdon)

Faye Dunaway in "Master Class" (in LA?)

Diahann Carroll in "Sunset Boulevard" (in Toronto -- not crazy about the show, but I hear she was terrific)

David Bowie in "Elephant Man" (maybe it's just a loincloth thing)

Sally Field in "The Goat" (heard she was brilliant, but I never got around to it)

Richard Burton and Keith McDermott in "Equus" (Burton received a special Tony for his performance and gave it to McDermott)
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 8/9/04 at 11:16 PM

#21

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:18pm

Raul Esparza in Cabaret
Joey Fatone in RENT
Jai Rodriguez in RENT
Sutton Foster in Les Miserables
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#22

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:24pm

Many apologies, Rathnait -- I've already fixed it. My keyboard sticks (I spend half my time on this board going back and editing my spelling).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#23

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:24pm

"LG I saw KZ and Brent Barrett in concert last summer in East Hampton."

I doubly hate you. re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen I'm so jealous! Was it just those two, or was it a bigger concert?

On that note, I want to add Kerry Butler in BatB (on Broadway) and Prodigal.
#24

re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen

Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:24pm

jonartdesigns, I saw Ms Holliday in Chicago. Having grown up on the OBCR of Dreamgirls, seeing her sing was one of the most incrediable performances I've ever witnessed. I was sitting in a seat where I could see the ensemble backstage during her "When You're Good to Mamma" and they (and the audience)were all clapping and cheering before she finnished her last riff.
And then I got to meet her...
Omigawd, I'll never forget that night. Absolutely incrediable.

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