Musical Revival Dreamcasts?

[Itonlytakesajourney]

The recent dreamcast threads on here have been fun, so I decided to start a new one where we share some of our hopes for future revivals. I for one would love to see a Thoroughly Modern Millie revival with Alexandra Silber or Phillipa Soo. 

[Jarethan]

-- Audra MacDonald in MAME, with either Jenifer Lewis or Megan Mullally as Vera

-- Hugh Jackman in My Fair Lady.  Aint gonna happen, but I would prefer him to anyone else who has been mentioned.  His handsome ruggedness would probably add another dimension to it.  Not that it needs one, but why not?

-- Nathan Lane in The Producers (this is my pipe dream, after all.  I would love to see one of the greatest performers in Broadway history in his signature role again)

-- Daniel Radcliffe or Brendon Urie in Half a Sixpence (because that may be the only way it'd get produced and I would love to see a full-scale revival of a show I absolutely loved)

-- (Idea from another post) Kelly O'Hara and James Marsden in a revisal of Bells Are Ringing.  But The Midas Touch has to go, and the title song needs to be re-written to set the show up more as a fairly tale of a long ago and gentler time.

-- Urinetown with Donald Trump as the urinal...er, I mean Mr. Cladwell.  I know he couldn't sing the role, but we'd get him out of DC and he'd otherwise be perfect.  Maybe Ivanka could play Hope and Tiffany could play Little Sally.  Jr. could be Officer Lockstock (he could lip synch).    And they could certainly find a role as one of the special needs townspeople to Eric.  Problem:  no one to play Bobby...casting would be too much of a stretch against type.  Thinking further, I think they should try to write the role of a urinal into the show, so Trump can play it in a Story Theatre type of way.

 

[CorkySt.Clair]

^I love these threads too! I know they may sound pointless, but it's really fun to imagine. A few I've thought of recently...

Ben Platt as Younger Brother in Ragtime

Bernadette and/or Joanna Gleason as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd

Raúl Esparza as Pierre in Great Comet (never gonna happen but I'd DIE to see it)

Laura Benanti as Amy in Company

Daveed Diggs as Harold Hill in the Music Man

 

 

[Jarethan]

CorkySt.Clair said: "^I love these threads too! I know they may sound pointless, but it's really fun to imagine. A few I've thought of recently...

Ben Platt as Younger Brother in Ragtime

Bernadette and/or Joanna Gleason as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd

Raúl Esparza as Pierre in Great Comet (never gonna happen but I'd DIE to see it)

Laura Benanti as Amy in Company

Daveed Diggs as Harold Hill in the Music Man

 
Daveed Diggs is an incredible idea; I am not sure the I can ever see another production of The Music Man, but what great casting he would be.  (I do not dislike TMM.  I have just seen it too many times, thanks to an overactive fondness for the movie when I was younger, and I really don't enjoy those barbershop quartet and quasi-Rap numbers...of course, someone like Diggs in the lead would demand re-thinking ways to make the show as  effervescent as he is. It will be interesting to see if anyone comes up with as brilliant an idea as this one.  
 

 

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[CorkySt.Clair]

^Yeah, the casting is the only thing that really jazzed me about that particular show. The first show I was obsessed with was West Side Story, so I held a pretty strong grudge and TMM that unfortunately still holds me to this day :P. But Diggs in it *might* make me rethink my biases. It has thus far been the only thing to make TMM sound interesting to me. 

[wish i were here2]

Two of my revival dreamcasts are

1. The Light in the Piazza with Kelli O'Hara as Margaret and Carrie St. Louis as Clara (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxHn8D3QipA)

2. The Drowsy Chaperone with Laura Bennati as the Chaperone, Andy Karl as Aldolpho, and Jefferson Mays as Man in Chair

[The Josh]

Once Upon a Mattress:

Rachel Bloom as Winnifred

Josh Gad as Dauntless

Directed by Casey Nicholaw

[David10086]

wish i were here2 said: "Two of my revival dreamcasts are

1. The Light in the Piazza with Kelli O'Hara as Margaret and Carrie St. Louis as Clara (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxHn8D3QipA)

2. The Drowsy Chaperone with Laura Bennati as the Chaperone, Andy Karl as Aldolpho, and Jefferson Mays as Man in Chair"

 

Speaking of Chaperone, whatever happened to the movie in which it was rumored that Streisand was to play the chaperone? Anne Hathaway, Geoffrey Rush and Hugh Jackman were rounding out the cast, and the director was Fred Schepisi. Shepisi announced this three years ago, and was supposed to star filming within a year...and nothing? 

 

[theatreguy12]

As he gets a little older maybe, a Josh Groban-led Man of La Mancha.  Like his rendition of Dulcinea and would love to hear him sing The Impossible Dream.

Already been done (in concert version), but Laura Osnes and Tony Yazbeck in the upcoming full scale revival of Crazy For You.    Seeing it in LA next year in its Stroman-led, pre-Broadway revival, and would love to hear those two announced as the leads.

[Theatrefanboy1]

Well with the recent Hello Dolly revival I keep hope alive for these dream casts:
 

Mame: Cher as Vera and Meryl Streep as Mame

Aida: Aaron Tveit (Radames), Lea Michele (Amneris), Cythnia Erivo (Aida)

A Little Night Music: Meryl Streep and Julie Andrews

Funny Girl: Lea Michele (Fanny Brice...Come on already!!!)

My Fair Lady: Julie Andrews (Mrs. Higgins)

Carousel: Cheyenne Jackson (Billy)

 

..... Also I've always thought it would be cool to do a  Follies revival (even as a fundraising event) with a bunch of legends like Cher, Bette Midler, Elton John, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger... kind of like that DIVAS fundraiser they had years ago
 

 

 

 

[steven22]

Stephanie J. Block as Diana. Julia Murney as Diana. Audra McDonald as Diana. Next to Normal. Let's make it happen? 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

1776
John Adams: Brian d’Arcy James
Benjamin Franklin: Dakin Matthews
Thomas Jefferson: Paul Alexander Nolan
Abigail Adams: Carmen Cusack
John Dickinson: Michael McGrath
Edward Rutledge: Josh Young
Martha Jefferson: Erin Mackey
Richard Henry Lee: Jason Danieley

BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Belle: Samantha Barks
The Beast: Paul Alexander Nolan
Gaston: Josh Young
Lumière: Gavin Creel
Cogsworth: Michael McGrath
Mrs. Potts: Victoria Clark
Maurice: Fred Applegate

THE FULL MONTY
Jerry Lukowski: Paul Alexander Nolan
Dave Bukatinsky: Dan Fogler
Malcolm MacGregor: Rob McClure
Ethan Girard: Michael Lomenda
Harold Nichols: Danny Burstein
Noah ‘Horse’ T. Simmons: Norm Lewis
Georgie Bukatinsky: Keala Settle
Vicki Nichols: Anika Larsen
Jeanette: Judy Kaye
Pam Lukowski: Elizabeth Stanley

GUYS & DOLLS
Nathan Detroit: Danny Burstein
Adelaide: Megan Hilty
Sky Masterson: Tony Yazbeck
Sarah Brown: Laura Osnes
Nicely-Nicely Johnson: Michael McGrath
Benny Southstreet: Josh Grisetti
Arvide Abernathy: John Rubinstein
General Matilda B. Cartwright: Ellen Harvey
Big Jule: Michael Mulheren

RAGTIME
Mother: Kelli O'Hara
Coalhouse Walker, Jr.: Joshua Henry
Tateh: Danny Burstein
Father: Michael Cerveris
Mother's Younger Brother: Ben Fankhauser
Sarah: Cynthia Erivo

[sarahharty]

LOVE that 1776 cast. Sadly, I doubt there'll be a revival while that other founding fathers musical is still running.

[HamilHansen]

We need a Urinetown revival with Christopher Sieber as Lockstock and Andrew Rannels as Bobby

[JudyDenmark]

I dream of City of Angels coming back! Andy Karl as Stone, Brandon Victor Dixon as Stine, Carmen Cusack as Gabby/Bobbi, Annaleigh Ashford as Donna/Oolie... I could see Eva Noblezada belting out a great Mallory...Danny Burstein could be a hilarious Buddy...

That show is so underrated.

[sparepart973]

Lady Gaga as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl

Shakira as Aurora/Spiderwoman in Kiss of the Spiderwpman 

Julia Murney as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard

[N. Wratch]

Seussical

Leslie Odom Jr. as The Cat

James Monroe Iglehart as Horton the Elephant

Cynthia Erivo as Gertrude (think about her possible "Notice Me Horton"

Amber Gray as Mayzie

Danielle Brooks as Sour Kangaroo

 

 

 

[ethan231h]

A revival of Next To Normal with Rachel Bay Jones as Diana NEEDS to happen!!! 

I'd also love to see Chad Kimball as Seymour in Little shop, and as noted on another thread Jane Krakowski as Audrey

Wesley Taylor as Hedwig, Billy Porter as Hedwig, 

Ben Platt as J. Peirpont finch in H2S

 

[Cat Guy]

Sutton Foster as "Irma La Douce"

Betty Buckley as the Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music"

Reba McEntire as Pearl Mesta in "Call Me Madam"

Kristin Chenoweth as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd"

[broadwayboy223]

Follies revival featuring Christine Ebersole as Sally and Patti LuPone as Phyllis. 

[Scarlet Leigh]

Sutton Foster as Winnifred + Josh Gad as Dauntless in Once Upon a Mattress = Please take my money

[Call_me_jorge]

Jill Paice as Lucille in Parade

[BlackElleWoods]

Beauty & The Beast : Belle - Brennyn Lark

Hairspray : Velma - Laura Bell Bundy

 

I'm seriously racking my brain trying to think of a show Orfeh would be perfect in 

[Alex Kulak2]

Louis C.K. as Vice Principal Panch in Spelling Bee.

[poisonivy2]

Dreamgirls:

Effie - Cynthia Erivo

Deena - Denee Benton

[Itonlytakesajourney]

I think a Music Man revival led by Ben Platt as Harold and Jasmine Cephas-Jones as Marian could be a hit, financially.