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we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
#50re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/10/09 at 5:15pm
I'd love to see Chenoweth in a concert version of the show, she is not the most appropriate for a full on revival.
Laura Benanti and Anne Hathaway are my top choices, with Erin Davie a close second.
Can Anna Friel sing? It seems like she'd be ideal for the part and she's actually British.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#52re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/10/09 at 10:24pm
Hmmm....I do love me some Kevin
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing someone completely new as Eliza. No Cheno, no Audra, no Laura. Someone none of us have ever heard of before who will bowl us all over with how amazing she is.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
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SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#53re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/10/09 at 10:30pm
Oooh, I'd like Erin Davie.
Anna Friel would be great if she could sing--I'd have to hear her.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#54re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/11/09 at 12:22am
If she can't sing, she should play the part in PYGMALION, I bet she'd make a brilliant Eliza Doolittle in either version.
Glad you agree SporkGoddess re Davie, I know you are picky with your sopranos, I think she would be a wonderful refreshing choice.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#55re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/11/09 at 1:34am
I could see Kevin McKidd as the erudite and pompous Higgins. And I love Kelli in anything. She's got the personality for Eliza but it would be fun to find someone very young for the role. Andrews was only twenty when the show opened originally.
Updated On: 5/11/09 at 01:34 AM
#56re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/11/09 at 1:52am
It might be cool to have Kelsey Grammer do the role (again...he did in a concert with Kelli O'hara, right?) and have David Hype Pierce as Pickering...I don't think the role is too small for him.
Then Pierce could take over when Grammer leaves.
#57re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/11/09 at 6:22am
Kevin Earley for Freddie.
Mmmmm, good idea!
I just can't think of an ideal Pickering off the top of my head, but when I've seen the show, Pickering's usually a big guy and Higgins is usually smaller, so that's kind of how I envision the characters.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#58re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/11/09 at 7:18amThat would be fab MTVMANN, and while we're at it, Jane Leeves as Eliza (who is British and CAN sing), figure out a role of John Maroney and Bebe Neuwirth, and I'm set.
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#59re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/11/09 at 11:32amThe only other female role of any substance is Mrs. Higgins...I don't think Bebe would play it...unless it was a big paycheck!
kooky
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
#61re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 5/11/09 at 11:51amLike a hole in the head. This is a real blind spot for me- I can't bear My Fair Lady. Sorry.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#62re: we need a revival of My Fair Lady!
Posted: 12/8/10 at 9:49pmBumping this thread because I'd love to see a revival with Laura Michelle Kelly reprising her role as Eliza from the West End. To see and listen to her sing "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "Show Me" would give me goosebumps.
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