I actually would like to see Laura Benanti play Fosca. I seem to remember reading an interview with her where she expressed interest in playing her and I think she'd be fantastic.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I feel like she's too...classically pretty? to play Fosca but I agree she'd act and sing the role marvelously. I mean I know they made her look plain for the first act of Gypsy but I'm not sure I could see it in terms of physical looks.
Whoever said the Rink with Patti and Leigh Ann thats a brilliant idea!!! The two i have been dreaming of for years is Kiss of the Spiderwoman with Catherine Zeta Jones and now that shes a Tony winner maybe its more plausible than it was before. My other was Grand Hotel with Hugh Panaro as The Baron and Leigh Ann Larkin as Flemchenn.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Wolfwolf, in case you were referring to me (since I mentioned Anthony Warlow), yes, I am.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
On the 20th Century with Kevin Kline as Oscar Jaffe. Oh Captain with maybe David Hyde Pierce. High Spirits - A few years ago I would have suggested Angela Lansbury for Madame Arcati but since she just played her in Blithe Spirit, that wouldn't work.
Goldilocks (with a revised book) Two Gentlemen of Verona City of Angels Once on This Island The Secret Garden Crazy For You Falsettos Dance of the Vampires (with a revised book closer to the German production) The Scarlet Pimpernel (first version)
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph- Gavin Creel Narrator- Sutton Foster Sunset Boulevard Norma- Meryl Streep I would also love to see revivals of Beauty and the Beast, The King and I, and Carousal.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Cast- Dolly: Meryl Streep Vandergelder: Alec Baldwin Irene Molloy: Anne Hathaway Cornelius: Sean Hayes Barnaby: Justin Bartha/ Michael Cera Minnie Fay: Leigh Ann Larkin
A Little Night Music (a remake not a revival) Desiree Armfeldt-Marion Cotillard Madame Armfeldt-Linda Hunt Fredrick Egerman-Hugh Jackman Fredricka Armfeldt-Abigail Breslin Anne Egerman-Sophie Evans (of "Over the Rainbow") Henrick Egerman-Robert Pattinson Carl-Magnus Malcolm-Josh Duhamel Charlotte Malclom-Anne Hathaway Petra-Amanda Seyfried Frid-Alexander Skarsgard Updated On: 8/9/10 at 10:52 PM