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perfect roles for stars
#125re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/12/06 at 9:28pm
"What is with Sutton as Evita?
I dont see it.
Stephanie J Block as Fanny Brice."
Neither do I. I honestly think Sutton would be an auful Evita. I second SJB as Fanny Brice. I also think Shoshana Bean would be a great choice too.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#126re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/12/06 at 10:30pmMichael Cerveris - Riff-Raff, The Rocky Horror Show
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#127re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/12/06 at 10:32pm
^ Scrap that idea. I forgot he's a bass.
He's played Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, so he could probably play Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#128re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/12/06 at 10:44pmAngela Lansbury as the Old Lady in Sunday in the Park With George. I'd love to hear her sing "Beautiful".
Stop looking at my charisma.
eve harrington2
Stand-by Joined: 7/18/06
#129re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/12/06 at 11:31pm
" Scrap that idea. I forgot he's a bass. "
Who Cerveris? NO, he is actually a tenor...
#130re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/12/06 at 11:34pmSince Sweeney everybody mistakes him as a bass. Listen to Assassins to hear his tenor. And Titanic too.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#131re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/12/06 at 11:35pm
Carolee Carmello as Mother in "Ragtime"
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#132re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/13/06 at 12:26am
Sarah Gettelfinger was BORN to play Lola in Damn Yankees.
Kelli O'Hara as Julie Jordan in Carousel
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mark in Rent
Hunter Foster as Mark in Rent
Danny Burstein as Max Bialystock (He's not as "big" as the typical Max, but I think he could definitely pull it off)
Sherie Renee Scott as Julia in the Wedding Singer
Beth Leavel as Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
And a random thought: could Sarah Silverman pull a Stephen Lynch and be in a musical weith LOTS of comedy, ie Avenue Q and Wedding Singer?
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
#133re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/25/06 at 9:42pm
Julia Murney as Reno Sweeney in "Anything Goes"
Lauren Kennedy as Janet in "The Drowsy Chaperone"
Ashley Brown as Janet in "The Drowsy Chaperone"
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#134re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/25/06 at 9:47pmLarisa Oleynik as Louise in Gypsy.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#135re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:12pm
As these may all be wishful thinking, I'd like to see Hugh Jackman singing a different role every night for one week --
*Rodgers and Hammerstein's Billy Bigelow
*Sondheim's Sweeney Todd
*Lloyd-Webber's Phantom
*Boublil and Schonberg's Valjean or Javert
*Mencken's Gaston (or the lead in LEAP OF FAITH)
*Lerner and Lowe's Professor Higgins or King Arthur
*Leigh's Don Quixote de la Mancha
Square Peg
Swing Joined: 8/28/06
#137re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:24am
I'm waiting for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to come to Australia so that Anthony Warlow can play the John Lithgow role. I think it's perfect for him, he has the suave thing down and he's really hilarious so he could definitely handle the comedy.
Kat.
#138re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:29amReese Witherspoon would be a really good Galinda.
broadjay
Understudy Joined: 8/26/06
#139re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:43am
ok, don't flip out anyone, but...
I think listen to the OBC recording of into the woods
Idina Menzel in a few years would makea fantastic Witch, its in her voice, plus she is quirky, comanding and slightly dark, and she is also hauntingly beautiful. In a movie version of it she would rock.
#140re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 9/15/06 at 11:45pm
Sutton Foster - Cathy, The Last 5 Years (Imagine her "Still Hurting"... incredible. And how hilarious would this "A Summer In Ohio" be?) or Amy in Company
Michael Arden - Jack, Into the Woods
Raul Esparza as Jamie in Bright Lights Big City (with Mano Felciano as Michael? C'mon, the resemblance is KILLER.)
Christian Borle - Burrs, The WIld Party (Maybe in a few years. I can see him in the Lippa version...)
Allison Fischer - Amber, Hairspray
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#141re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:06pm
Helen Mirren as Desiree in ALNM
I'm not sure how well she can sing, but I think she'd also be wonderful as Mame. She has a joyfulness about her that's underutilized.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#142re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:08pmI keep saying this, but Julia Murney as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.
actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
#143re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:11pm
"Reese Witherspoon would be a really good Galinda"
That's exactly what I said in my Wicked Casting Game...but everyone attacked me like rabid dogs...
Usher would be a fabulous Elphie. I can just see him tossing his hair in Popular.
...just kidding
JustABroadwaybaby2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/6/06
#144re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:11pm
I think I'd LOVE to see Kelli O'Hara as Kathy in TL5Y. She is so versatile that she just did an ingenue then a leading lady, so why not Kathy? I think it would be a great change. I can't imagine her singing any of the songs though.I don't know if she's MADE ofr the role, but I'd like to see her. Plus, who would be Jamie?
See, with Celia being cast as Eponine, I thought that was amazing. I can almost hear "On My Own" in my head.
"I'm thinking about how if you took the W in
answer, and the H in ghost, and the extra A in aardvark, and the T in listen, you could keep saying WHAT but no one would ever hear you because the whole word would be silent."
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#145re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:28pm
What is with Sutton as Evita?
I dont see it.
Sutton can do anything. That girl could play Tevye and I wouldn't care.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#146re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:36pmI'd love to see revival of Hello, Dolly! with Bernadette Peters as the leading lady.
#147re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:48pm
Shoshana Bean as the Lady of the Lake
LaChanze as Sarah (Ragtime)
Hugh Panero as Jekyll/Hyde
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
#148re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 9:15pmSutton Foster in Last Five Years is very interesting. I can see it.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#150re: perfect roles for stars
Posted: 10/1/06 at 9:22pm
LaChanze as Sarah has been done, y'all! But I bet she was amazing.
Kelli O'Hara as Eliza in MY FAIR LADY
Sutton Foster- Julia, THE WEDDING SINGER
Maria Friedman - Nettie, CAROUSEL
Laura Benanti - MARY POPPINS
Norbert Leo Butz - Robbie, THE WEDDING SINGER
Ragtime replacement list
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
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