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Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#50Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 2:15pm
I could get on board with Amy Adams. She'd be fine, I think.
I also wonder what Idina Menzel could do with the role. (I know, she's more of a stage actress for the role. I doubt her "Glee" appearances will make any impact.)
#51Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 2:20pmThat's fine but she looks like she's 25.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#52Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 2:35pmNever fear, Jordan-by the time the film gets made, she'll look old enough.
#53Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 2:45pmWhat's Alice Ripley up to these days?
#54Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 2:49pm
Im sorry I dont want a lovely voice who can LEARN how to belt. Not exciting. This is a rock score and it needs an actress who can wail. Pink excites me-just thinking about her singing that score is exciting, because the score is thrilling.If I have to hear that score limp along by some A list actress I will die.
Also, many singers are very good in a musical medium. They are convincing in music videos. Part of the reason I liked Madonna in EVITA is because she wasnt really talking at all. It was music videos pieced together.
If there is a god, Pink would be considered for the role. So long as they cast a true teen, Pink would look age appropriate.
I dont want to hear Kate or Naomi's voice "sweetened" during the tough parts of the score.
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ChanceEncounter
Stand-by Joined: 7/7/12
#55Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 4:44pmI LOVE Pink. But having seen her act (she was in some horror movie about people in catacombs under Paris a number of years ago) she is a no.
#56Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 4:56pmI'd imagine that some songs would be cut so it wouldn't be as much singing as the musical. I'd rather have someone act the role well instead of belting it to the high heavens. Naomi, Jennifer Connelly, and Kate Winslet are all great picks.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
ChanceEncounter
Stand-by Joined: 7/7/12
#57Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 5:15pm
I'd rather have someone act the role well instead of belting it to the high heavens.
Or, you could get Toni Collette (like I suggested) and have both.
#58Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 5:23pmNo, better to have a popular bankable actress who can only "kind of" sing, like Nicole Kidman or Meryl Streep.
#59Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 5:24pmToni Collette is the only actress I can think of who can sing and act the hell out of this role. The only way they'd use her is if they cast bigger names in the rest of the roles.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#60Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 5:33pm
Can they "take a chance" on Collette? She has a TV show and has done many movies, nominated for an Oscar and Tony (ok that means nothing). BUT STILL, keep the budget low and it can't be THAT risky?
How about this 'name' Natalie?
I think she'd be great.
"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
ChanceEncounter
Stand-by Joined: 7/7/12
#61Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 6:45pmIf they're going to do it they should do it right. I would much prefer a premium cable channel do it so they could actually cast decent people instead of a theatrical version that has less than serviceable stars. The Showtime Reefer Madness worked wondefully without a single major star. It was full of broadway people that have only (especially back then) minnimal mainstream recognition. Alan Cumming, Amy Spanger, Ana Gasteyer, Steven Weber. Of that lot, Spanger has never been a mainstream name. At the time Cumming wasn't as well known as he is know. Gasteyer had recently left SNL and Weber was still mostly known for Wings which hadn't been on the air in 8 years. And the two young leads were Christian Campbell (who I'm sure still wouldn't be picked out of a crowd by 99.9% of people) and Kristen Bell who's greatest success to date is being the uncredited voice of Gossip Girl for 9 seasons. The biggest "movie star" in the whole thing was Neve Campbell who no one would know a thing about if it wasn't for Scream.
#62Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 6:47pmThat's not true. PARTY OF FIVE had a very large following.
#63Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 7:05pm
^ I was just about to say the same thing. Plus Neve Campbell was also known for The Craft and Wild Things, though neither had the success that the Scream films had.
And though it was never really a gigantic hit, isn't Kristen Bell more known for Veronica Mars than a voiceover on Gossip Girl?
ChanceEncounter
Stand-by Joined: 7/7/12
#64Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 8:21pm
More known for Veronica Mars but you can hardly point to that as something that shows she's a viable star.
ETA
Also, how many people in the target audience of N2N are old enough to remember Party of Five?
Updated On: 12/21/12 at 08:21 PM
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#65Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 8:30pm
Why is Toni Collette always thrown into the mix of playing mentally unhinged characters?
I find her to be a fantastic actress, but enough already with playing mental screw-ups.
Is it her pretty but unconventionally attractive features that allow her to play ugly?
Is it the lack of Americanized sanitation in her performances?
What?
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
#66Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 8:36pmThe cast of Reefer Madness is much less a "Broadway cast" and more a TV star and film character actor cast. Granted, many of them had done Broadway or later did, but for the most part everyone was a recognizable B-lister. Cumming in the arguable real lead as the Lecturer had a Bond film, Spy Kids and X-Men among other things by that point. Kristin Bell had Veronica Mars, Ana Gasteyer was a major SNL player. It was a B-list cast to be sure, but Broadway doesn't even rank B-list.
#67Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 8:40pm
omg.
Pink.
Would be.
AMAZING.
BettyBoy, that's seriously the best idea I've ever heard. And i mean, the best idea out of every single idea I've ever heard. Not ideas about casting NEXT TO NORMAL. All ideas.
#68Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/21/12 at 9:25pm
Pink would be fantastic IMO.
Hell, I think Idina could do it very well. I know I will be in the minority but I think her voice and acting have great depths that could do the part justice. Please, no one kill me.
Amy Adam's looks far too young. She might be the right age in real life but she looks too young.
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#69Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/22/12 at 12:43am
Broomstick, I don't know that Toni Collette is only thought of as playing mentally unhinged character. Her Oscar nomination is for playing the character who was the only sort of sane person in the film, in IN HER SHOES (where she's underrated but fantastic) she is the stable sister, and I doubt she was unhinged in her last two movies--FRIGHT NIGHT and HITCHCOCK. She was incredible in US OF TARA, and maybe because she's not afraid to "go there," people think of her as very capable for Diana. It's kind of like with Naomi Watts, probably the most intense Hollywood actress of her generation, she's just really great at playing ridiculously intense characters. I don't know that it's a bad thing.
I love hearing movie stars tackle the musical theatre cannon in the context of a movie musical, it's fun and different. I love hearing Streep's singing voice, she can act a song like few can and from what I've read from people who know about this stuff on the board, her singing is very technically proficient. However, Diana is a role that needs that great vocal performance to match the intensity of the material, it is true that Collette is probably the only movie star who has the vocal power to do justice to the role.
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#70Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/22/12 at 1:03amToni Collette comes up all the time because she can sing and it would be great if she finally got to do it on the big screen. And the 'unhinged' darkness of Tara on the show did not really fully hit until its last season. The previous seasons had her as a chameleon playing different parts of that personality that did go there but not into where Diana went into until the last season. As ray points out, it speaks more to her wide range as an actress but again, she also has vocal chops. If anything despite her being Australian she consistently passes as American unlike her other, more famous counterparts who seem to think American South and stock gangster hitman are the go-to accents. Also while she does not play beauties I can really only think of In Her Shoes and Muriel's Wedding where she was noticeably made frumpy but I don't know, she looked pretty in The Sixth Sense to me.
Owen22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#71Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/22/12 at 2:16am
"Pink would be fantastic IMO.
Amy Adam's looks far too young. She might be the right age in real life but she looks too young."
You think Pink, who I believe is only 33, is completely right for the role and Amy Adams looks too young...?
#72Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/22/12 at 10:09amNot a huge name but what about Julia Murney?
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#73Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/22/12 at 10:17am
"You think Pink, who I believe is only 33, is completely right for the role and Amy Adams looks too young...?"
Actually yes. No disrespect to Pink, but Amy still looks like a teen. Pink looks and reads older, especially when not glamourized. She could pass for 40, easy.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#74Is The NEXT TO NORMAL Movie Still Happening?
Posted: 12/22/12 at 10:42amI agree. I can't see Pink ever doing this movie but it's all about how old someone reads on film. And Diana has some miles on her, she can't look like she graduated high school a few years ago.
