Since 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
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.
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
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.
"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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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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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
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"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler