I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
#1I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:08pm
I think I actually need to see him do COMPANY now. It's not a want, it's an actual need.
barcelona20
Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
#2I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:11pm
I'm supposed to sympathize with Jake Gyllenhall? The guy who could have any girl he wants? Pass.
#3I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:14pm
^That's the entire point of Bobby.
"So single and attentive and attractive a man
Is everything a person could wish"
He would be perfect.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#4I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:15pm
Jake is a transformative actor. Him in "Little Shop of Horrors" is proof of that. Did he look like he could get anybody he wanted then? Absolutely not. Anyway Jordan, you should become a casting director just to make this happen. I loved Jake before, but after this week I'm simply enamored with him. I want him to play anything.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#5I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:30pm
...if you think the point of Company is that Bobby can't get girls, you've somehow missed the point of Company.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#6I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:33pm
And I hope your screenname is where you live and not a reference to the show, since you clearly don't understand it.
#7I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:35pm
We don't need another stage production of COMPANY. How bout Jake in a movie version?
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
#8I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:35pm
he has three girls at once, i don't think that's because the character is supposed to be hideous
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#9I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:36pm
If they were ever going to make a film version of it, as they've talked about doing for years, they should do it now with him.
Updated On: 10/27/16 at 01:36 PM
theatregoer3
Broadway Star Joined: 3/8/13
#11I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:31pm
It really is. As long as they don't cast Meryl Streep as Joanne.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#12I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:31pm
Jordan, I was actually thinking during Sunday how much I'd rather have seen him as Bobby than George. I know many disagree, but I thought Jake's George was too unaffected and, as somebody wrote on the main Sunday thread, "unaware." I wanted more deliberateness and power from him as George. The role of Bobby, however, requires a level of naïveté and a lack of raw force (up until Being Alive). I think Jake would be an amazing Bobby, and I'd likely much prefer him in that role than I did George.
Updated On: 10/27/16 at 02:31 PM#13I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:35pm
Cate Blanchett for Joanne
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
#14I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:39pm
My god, if he did two full scale Sondheim revivals, he would totally be on his way to becoming one our great current Sondheim interpreters. The man is crazy talented. Maybe in 15 years he'll be Ben in Follies. Currently, he'd be a ridiculously good Carl Magnus in Night Music.
"So many possibilities."
#15I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:40pm
Toni Collette should play Joanne.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#16I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:42pm
Yes. Let's make this into another dreamcasting thread. To annoy Jordan if nothing else.. :p
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#17I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:43pm
Ooh, can Annaleigh Ashford be Amy?
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
carayip
Swing Joined: 7/2/15
#18I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:48pm
If Jake wants to do another Sondheim show, I would rather see him do Passion than Company.
#19I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:09pm
Ooh! Good. Another Sondheim role for him. Giorgio.
George
Bobby
Carl Magnus
Giorgio
#20I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:15pm
Sara Ramirez for April.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#21I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:18pm
He'd actually make a good Sweeney too, no? In a couple of years? Bring back that Seymour beard.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#22I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/28/16 at 3:38am
I was perfectly content to wait another 5-10 years for Daniel Radcliffe to do it but now this is what I need. You've ruined me.
#23I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/28/16 at 6:34am
I want to see him try and do Bernadette Peters doing Sally in FOLLIES. It would really show his versatility as an actor.
"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
bwayboy22
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/12
#24I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/28/16 at 7:40am
I'd like to see him play a different Robert, in Bridges of Madison County.
#25I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/28/16 at 1:10pm
Valentina3 said: "It really is. As long as they don't cast Meryl Streep as Joanne.
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Actually I really like this idea. It would increase the film's chances of being made, too.
What I want to know is, who is TweetyPie1?
