we need a revival of My Fair Lady! — Page 2
#27
Posted: 5/8/09 at 11:39pm
"Laura Benanti would be a divine Eliza."
Completely agree. She also has mentioned this as one of her dream roles.
Completely agree. She also has mentioned this as one of her dream roles.
#28
Posted: 5/9/09 at 4:33am
"We need a revival of My Fair Lady!"...yes, we do 
"Laura Benanti would be a divine Eliza."...yeap!
However, if I may...I think Laura Osnes would make for a great Eliza, also. What about J. Mark McVey for Higgins?
"Laura Benanti would be a divine Eliza."...yeap!
However, if I may...I think Laura Osnes would make for a great Eliza, also. What about J. Mark McVey for Higgins?
#29
Posted: 5/9/09 at 8:11am
Yes I agree! I want a revival of My Fair Lady!
David Hyde Pierce - Henry Higgins
Laura Benanti - Eliza Doolittle
Raul Esparza - Freddy Eynsford-Hill
David Hyde Pierce - Henry Higgins
Laura Benanti - Eliza Doolittle
Raul Esparza - Freddy Eynsford-Hill
#30
Posted: 5/9/09 at 8:25am
Raul Esparza - Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Much as I love Raul, I really don't see that at all.
Much as I love Raul, I really don't see that at all.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#31
Posted: 5/9/09 at 8:31am
I know Schmerg - sometimes I just get blinded by the light. 
#32
Posted: 5/9/09 at 8:49am
Hugh Grant as Higgins
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#33
Posted: 5/9/09 at 10:11am
Richard E. Grant recently played the role (Higgins) in Australia. Not a bad choice.
#34
Posted: 5/9/09 at 10:46am
She's a little old for the role, but I would love to see Audra McDonald play Eliza. Laura and Kelli are excellent choices too.
#35
Posted: 5/9/09 at 3:05pm
I can see Kelli in the role, but I can't picture Laura Benanti.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#36
Posted: 5/9/09 at 3:45pm
I love Raul too and I'm not saying he's unattractive in anyway shape or form. But for Freddy you need a "pretty boy" with little substance. Raul has too much substance. Has too much intelligence just in his face.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#37
Posted: 5/9/09 at 4:10pm
Also, though I like his voice, I don't think it's suited for a big swoony song like "The Street Where You Live." His voice is a bit too... edgy?
I think Sean Palmer would be a fantastic Freddy if he could do the English accent.
I think Sean Palmer would be a fantastic Freddy if he could do the English accent.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#38
Posted: 5/9/09 at 4:33pm
Palmer would work or even Austin Miller
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#39
Posted: 5/9/09 at 4:57pm
At the Kristin Chenoweth book signing a few weeks ago she said she'd love to play Eliza. I don't know if I can see her as Eliza but I'd like to see her play a different character, she's been type cast and I always wonder if she is capable of playing something different than a blonde type.
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
#40
Posted: 5/9/09 at 6:38pm
I?d like to see this cast:
Eliza: Laura Benanti
Higgins: Brian d?Arcy James
Pickering: Boyd Gaines (except that he?s already played that role in Pygmalion)
Eliza: Laura Benanti
Higgins: Brian d?Arcy James
Pickering: Boyd Gaines (except that he?s already played that role in Pygmalion)
#41
Posted: 5/9/09 at 6:43pm
chenoweth has the voice but she would play Eliza to sweet. Eliza needs to someone who starts out playing a stubborn and insecure, unmannerly girl but by the second act she turns into a proud, graceful, confident, young women. and I don't think she could do that.
Updated On: 5/9/09 at 06:43 PM
#42
Posted: 5/9/09 at 6:58pm
Laura Benanti would be amazing as Eliza. I think Hugh Laurie would be a brilliant Higgins as well. Palmer would be an okay Freddy I guess...can he act? I've just heard him sing. But Laura and Hugh would be absolute perfection.
"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl
#43
Posted: 5/9/09 at 7:02pm
Ooh! Brian d'Arcy James is a good idea legally_popular! I can see that!
And don't shoot me but I think Gavin Creel would be a precious Freddy.
And don't shoot me but I think Gavin Creel would be a precious Freddy.
"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl
#44
Posted: 5/9/09 at 7:02pm
now that I think about it Benati would be perfect.
#45
Posted: 5/9/09 at 7:34pm
Freddy is too small for Raul at this point in his career...but Higgins is not :)
I would love to see Audra McDonald as Eliza. She wants to play the role and there is nothing really that I can see in the script about it having to be a "May/December" romance between Eliza and Higgins. I think Audrey Hepburn was mid-30's in the movie.
So if Audra did Eliza, I think that Ben Vareen would make a great Alfred Doolittle!
I would love to see Audra McDonald as Eliza. She wants to play the role and there is nothing really that I can see in the script about it having to be a "May/December" romance between Eliza and Higgins. I think Audrey Hepburn was mid-30's in the movie.
So if Audra did Eliza, I think that Ben Vareen would make a great Alfred Doolittle!
#46
Posted: 5/9/09 at 7:36pm
I really don't want to see Benanti play the role...nothing really against her...but when I get to go see the show on some random night AFTER the Tony Awards, I don't want to be disappointed to open my playbill and find out that she's not in the show!
#47
Posted: 5/9/09 at 8:07pm
I was just going to say Gavin Creel.
#48
Posted: 5/9/09 at 8:10pm
Kelli O'Hara would be perfection!
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#49
Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:34pm
"chenoweth has the voice but she would play Eliza to sweet. Eliza needs to someone who starts out playing a stubborn and insecure, unmannerly girl but by the second act she turns into a proud, graceful, confident, young women. and I don't think she could do that. "
I politely disagree. I think Cheno could absolutely pull that off, and just needs the opportunity. First act Eliza is similar to a poor Galinda...feisty and stubborn. Galinda just has breeding and money.
I politely disagree. I think Cheno could absolutely pull that off, and just needs the opportunity. First act Eliza is similar to a poor Galinda...feisty and stubborn. Galinda just has breeding and money.
#50
Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:44pm
I think that Kristen Chenoweth would do a lot of her "tricks" as Eliza, with lot's of the "cutesy" type of humor that she seems to always does...at least in the last 3 musical roles on Broadway.
