who in what roles

After reading the post about DH I was wondering. Who of this generation of musical theatre performers should play what role they have not performed yet???? i.e. What role could Brian Stokes Mitchell play or Marin Mazzie??? Or for that matter, what role shouldn't they play??? Sorry about the grammar??

Are we talking dream and nightmare roles for different actors or.... ?

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Roles Stokes SHOULD play:

Hajj in a Kismet revival
King Arthur in Camelot
Henry Higgins
Billy Bigelow (Imagining him singing Sililoquy is giving me shivers)

Roles Stokes should NOT play

Max Bialystock
Seymour Kregborn
Horace Vandergelder

Interesting choices, Stevos! :)

I would also like to see Alice as Roxie and Emily as Velma. And that is my dream that will never be fulfilled

Marin Mazzie would make a pretty good Witch in Into The Woods, I think, although her counterpart in London- Rachel York, would be my number one pick for the next revival-hehe. Marin would also be an amazing Velma Von Tussle in "Hairspray"- I know everyone on the board is sick of hearing about it, but I think she would be great.

As for Brian Stokes Mitchell- I would love to see him as Scar or Mufasa in The Lion King. I also think he would be a riot in the role of Trevor Graydon. He would also be a nice Reverand Moore in Footloose.

Michele Pawk is breathtakingly gorgeous and she played Mama Morton. Emily could belt the crap out of that part and she's damn funny. If Pawk can be a glamorous Mama, so can Ems! :)

I see where you're going with Alice and Emily as Roxie and Velma. I can't see Alice as Velma at all, so if you were casting them together, Emily would be the obvious choice as Vel. I still see her more as a Roxie -- her character that she just played was so a "Roxie type". In fact, most of the parts she's played border more on Roxie than Velma.

I still think if freaking Melanie Griffith can headline as Roxie, Emily could play it. She can act, SING, and DANCE circles around the ho--whoa, gonna stop before I get too mean.

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