scary casting- Page 2

[bestofbroadway]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 10:00am

That's it I'm writting a petition. I want Margaret Cho as the next Tracy Turnblad. Updated On: 6/18/03 at 10:00 AM

[alterego]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 10:00am

Ruth Buzzi as Evita (from a old Golden Girls episode).
Robert de Niro as Albin in La Cage. Truman Capote would have been a great Thenardier in Les Miz. Richard simmons as jud in Oklahoma! Updated On: 6/18/03 at 10:00 AM

[Albin]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 11:00am

Carol Channing in the 2006 revival of Hello Dolly.
Fran Drescher as Mame
Susan Lucci in any part that requires singing.
Tommy Tune as The Beast

[bestofbroadway]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 11:13am

Those are pretty scary.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 11:29am

>Dame Edna as Madam Rose
>Jennifer Loez as Maria in WSS
>Elizabeth Taylor as Dolly Levi (she was who producers wanted for the movie before Streisand)...would be even worse today
>Carol Channing in any role in Nine
>Kathy Griffin as Charity Hope Valentine

Posted: 6/18/03 at 1:43pm

I think the MARY MARTIN ONE WINS!

That made me laugh out loud!

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 4:17pm

It didnt make me laugh out loud. I kinda made me cry. How about Harvey Fierstein as Peggy Sawyer in 42nd street?
Marissa Jaret Winokur as Aida?
Here it is: Bernadette Peters as Elphaba in Wicked? Imagine her a light shade of green with her bright curly red hair.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 4:19pm

Mary Martin as Mimi with Cyril Ritchard as Roger. lol. ::cringe::

[Deannaizme]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 4:20pm

Billy, I just got a mental picture. VERY comical.

[alterego]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 9:37pm

Many years ago in Australia the Dame Edna Everage character was actually considered for Miss Hannigan in Annie.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 9:44pm

(Albin, you should never have been fished out of the koi pond!)

Loretta Swit as Magnolia in SHOWBOAT

Susan Lucci as Lady Macbeth

Regis Philbin as Macbeth

Michael Jackson as Othello

Donny Osmond as Iago

Mindy Cohen as Edna Turnblad

Dick Cavett as Prof Higgins

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa as Eliza Doolittle

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 9:46pm

Obviously Bernadette would wear a wig if she was green! She played an ugly old witch in ITTW and didn't have her red, curly hair until she transformed.

It would be so weird seeing her with a different hair color...even though she used to be blonde (and originally Brunette I think). She's been a red-head since like 1983, and all of her Broadway roles and movies since have had her in wigs very similar to her own hair.

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 10:40pm

Well, if she did keep her red hair, I think it would me an interesting rendition of the character-hehe.
Other scary casting-hmmm
Sutton Foster as Sally Bowles.
Vanessa Redgrave as Velma Kelley
Harvey Fierstein as Roxie Hart
Brian Dennehy as Link in Hairspray
Mary Bond Davis as Ulla in The Producers

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 6/18/03 at 10:47pm

LOL Fran Drescher as Eliza Doolittle.
She's just like Eliza (before her lessons). Gorgeous until she speaks.

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 6/19/03 at 11:07am

OOO yay! That's so perfect. We could make it modern!

[John4763]

Posted: 6/19/03 at 6:52pm

Harvey Fierstein as Rolf in Sound of Music

[BrdwyThtr]

Posted: 6/19/03 at 6:55pm

Harvey as Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show.

[alterego]

Posted: 6/20/03 at 3:14am

Harvey Fierstein as the Leading Player in PIPPIN, as SWEENEY TODD, or Will in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES.