non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
#0non 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
#1re: 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
#2re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 10:51pm
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
Updated On: 8/9/04 at 10:51 PM
#3re: 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!"
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#4re: 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
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Updated On: 8/10/04 at 10:54 PM
#5re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 10:56pmDamn, I wish I had seen Brooke Shields in GREASE! NOT!!!!!
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#6re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:00pmI wish I caught Reba McEntire in Annie Get Your Gun
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#7re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:01pm
Roger Bart as Leo Bloom in The Producers (kinda counts, he played a new role)
Hunter Foster in The Producers
Idina in Aida
Adam in Aida (I know, this doesn't really count lol)
Joey Fatone in Rent
#8re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:03pm
"Adam in Aida (I know, this doesn't really count lol)"
haha, that does not count! But it is wonderful that he's back!!
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#9re: 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
LadyGuenevere
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/03
#10re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:06pmDefinitely Brent Barrett in Chicago, Eden Espinosa (for her, I would actually see it) in Wicked, Linda Mugleston in Wonderful Town...
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#11re: 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.
#12re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:06pmKZ in Chorus Line, 42nd Street, and Crazy for You.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#13re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:07pm
Idina in Aida
Taye Diggs or Brent Barrett in Chicago
Raul Esparza or Norbert Leo Butz in Cabaret
Taye Diggs in Wicked
Sutton Foster in Grease and Les Miz.
#14re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:08pm
Jai Rodriguez and Karmine Alers in RENT
Adam Pascal in Cabaret
Barret Foa in Avenue Q
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#15re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:12pm1 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
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#16re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:12pm
Sherie Rene Scott in RENT
Raul Esparza in Caberat
Adam Pascal in Caberat
Kathy Brier in Hairspray
Hunter Foster in The Producers
#17re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:15pmLG I saw KZ and Brent Barrett in concert last summer in East Hampton.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#18re: 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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 8/9/04 at 11:16 PM
#19re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:18pmMargo - I KNOW you didn't just spell Minnelli with one N...
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#20re: 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."
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#21re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:24pmMany 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
LadyGuenevere
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/03
#22re: 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. 
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.
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#23re: 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.
#24re: non OBC favorite casts/replacements you wish you had seen
Posted: 8/9/04 at 11:28pmJust those two, LG.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
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