Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
#1Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 2:08am
https://twitter.com/rebelwilson/status/734980863637618688
Very surprising, interesting and exciting!
#2Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 2:12am
Very exciting! Wish I could see.
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#3Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 5:30am
Will Richard Kind still be playing Nathan Detroit during that time?
Saw it a couple of weeks ago and LOVED it. (I also was not expecting RIchard Kind, which was a happy surprise)
#4Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 6:32am
I love Rebel Wilson. I love Guys and Dolls. I do not love them together. Maybe she'll prove me wrong.
#5Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 7:09am
Oh I can see that wonderfully! She'll be great.
sabrelady
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#6Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 7:26am
After Jane Krakowskis's version, anything else is a letdown.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#7Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 7:48am
Pleasantly surprised by this...Nice to see inspired casting...
#8Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 7:52am
sabrelady said: "After Jane Krakowskis's version, anything else is a letdown."
Ha! I'm glad I'm not the only who can't get past Krakowski's definitive take on the role. It's one of the great tragedies of musical theatre that the transfer never came together (though we got Jenna Maroney in return)--and yes, I know I am being extremely dramatic. She just played Miss Adelaide like Loesser wrote the role for her.
Anyway, if Wilson works with a good director who can get her to be in character, then she could be dynamite. I love her voice and she has great comic timing. I love it when a funny person plays the role. I'll never forgive whoever was responsible for casting Lauren Graham in the asinine McAnuff revival.
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#9Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 9:00am
I wish there was an IBDB for the west end, because I'm really curious to see how many performances of Guys & Dolls there has been in the West End in the past 20 years. It feels that there is a constant stream of revivals of that show there (much more than here in NYC!)
#10Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 9:02am
Makes me want to buy a ticket and hop across the pond. Hope she does something on Broadway soon.
#11Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 9:59am
She'd be a riot during "Adelaide's Lament". Very good choice indeed. Would be curious to see her Bushel & A Peck (and I cannot believe I said that sentence without any puns intended). She really is a fun dancer who can play very very sexy when she is not mocking herself.
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Updated On: 5/24/16 at 09:59 AM
#12Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 10:21am
Oops, just posted in the other thread without realizing this one was first. I'll say it again:
I'm VERY excited that I'll be in London for this. I'll definitely go see her, though I already saw the show when I was last in London.
#13Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 10:30am
AnnieBlack said: "I wish there was an IBDB for the west end, because I'm really curious to see how many performances of Guys & Dolls there has been in the West End in the past 20 years. It feels that there is a constant stream of revivals of that show there (much more than here in NYC!)
Me too. I feel like there's a new production every five years.
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#14Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 10:51am
The most recent major London revivals are 1982 (Ian Charleson, Bob Hoskins, Julia McKenzie, and Julie Covington), 1996 (Henry Goodman, Imelda Staunton, Clarke Peters, and Jo Riding), 2005 (Ewan McGregor, Jane Krakowski, Doug Hodge, and Jenna Russell), and now this one. There was also a reunion concert of the 1982 revival in 1990 in honor of Charleson after his death.
In contrast, there have been three Broadway revivals in the last 40 years (1977, 1992, and 2009), as well as the concert version at Carnegie Hall 2 years ago.
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#15Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 11:28am
Guys and Dolls would be a knockout as a TV live musical, with an all-star cast.
Given her history with the network, ABC should put it up with their stable of performers- Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet as Benny and Nicely; Wendy McLendon-Covey or Tracee Ellis Ross as the head of the Mission; Neil Flynn or Ed O'Neil as Arvide; Rebel Wilson as Adelaide; as many sitcom regulars as we can get to play the gangsters and gamblers.
#16Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:05pm
I swear on Cynthia Erivo's voice that if there's a Live TV musical adaption of Guys & Dolls and Adelaide is played by anyone other Jane Krakowski or Megan Mullaly - I'm going to start throwing really pointy things at network execs.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#17Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:11pm
If a TV production of Guys and Dolls gets made, I'd like to see Christina Applegate play Adelaide.
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#18Rebel Wilson to join West End's Guys and Dolls
Posted: 5/24/16 at 3:16pm
I think it'll depend to some extent on the age of the four principals. I've seen Adelaides played as a youngish woman, still old enough to have been engaged for many years, and as a lifelong "burlesque dame" too old to be a stripper but still the star of the show. The Pittsburgh Public production this past spring cast those two parts on the old end, and Adelaide reminded me (endearingly) of the mother on "That Seventies Show." The original famously cast for people "with lumps and bumps," and Rebel Wilson certainly fits the mold of an unconventional-looking but immediately lovable character actress.
