Profile for Owen22

SomethingPeculiar said: "No way Paper Mill is doingSunday in the Park, Last 5 Years, Bombay Dreams,Hands on a Hardbody,orTorch Song. Think mainstream. And they're already doingBeauty and the Beastin May of this year.

CinderellaandJosephare ideal Paper Mill shows.Unmaskedmakes sense, because the computer symbols shown are "paste layer mask."Groundhog Daycould work, too, and I think that wo

OlBlueEyes said: "Seems like you're the one who is so sensitive about it.

If most think the same as you then definitely leave it out.

I would like my favorite Kelli O'Hara to do well in this, and from my observations and the feedback coming back it seems like she is not making a great impression so far. As one person put it, she needed to get herself far more over the top. Have you checked out Rachel and the actress in Proms14?

Just a thought

Impossible2 said: "dfrillsnedit said: "Reading up on the casting rumors here - though I'm really happy Paige and some of the other leads from the recent production are returning, I was really hoping for Chris Sullivan as Hermes. He has such a unique, rough, rock n' roll quality to his voice that is so hypnotic, it would have been great to see him make a return to both the character and to Broadway. This is Us is cool and all, but this would be have been incr

Sorry for not adding the requisite question mark,  But this is my definitive declaration (n case Stephen Daltry is reading) why the only film Glinda (if they are going for star casting as I think they will) is Anna Kendrick.

She can sing. Not in the way Chenowith could, not in that beautiful soprano a lot of stage Glindas (but definitely not all) enter with. But she CAN sing. And well. She was, in my opinion, wonderful as Cinderella singing Sondheim.  And that called for

SomethingPeculiar said: "TheSassySam said: "I wonder if the originals will be placed in the film somewhere. Kristin as Madame Morrible?"

Not Morrible, but they'll probably beinvolved in some capacity.

I actually think the likelihood of Meryl Streep playing Morrible is pretty high right now,because she's worked with both Stephen Daldry and Marc Platt, and these cameo performances in high-profile movies help her retain some box-office cl

QueenAlice said: "Owen, I know people like to point to history when they mention that historically Rose was a young woman. But this really isn’t a history play- it’s a musical fable that was specifically tailored for the musical and dramatic gifts of Ethel Merman. Merman was in her early 50s when the play premiered and I personally think it works best when the part is played by someone in the shade of that age. I think, especially for film, in this day and age it might be

Niles Silvers said: "It's interesting that the first thing people come up with in relation to female leads is age."

I think we're  harping because on stage Rose has always been played by aging battleaxes. But Rose Hovick was a young woman when she began her journey and was not yet 38 years old when June elopes with Tulsa (she actually married Herbie when she was 26).  So really Anne Hathaway is much closer to Rose's age than Louise.

 

GavestonPS said: "To take but one example, Sondheim hasbeen saying in articles and in his own books for decades that "intricate rhyming always indicates education and high intelligence", and then he tells the story about Sheldon Harnick knocking Maria's "I Feel Pretty" in WSS.

Well, one can quarrel with some of Maria's vocabulary in that song ("committee"?), but reservingrhymefor uneducated characters ignores the considerable success o

I have a question. One of the things that has always bugged me about the rewritten version (and even though the Friedman Merrily was a vast improvement on any production of the "new" Merrily I've ever seen, it still didn't land well for me) was the incorporating Scenes Two and Three (TV Studio and restaurant) into one scene.  That Frank hauls off and tries to punch Charlie right after Charlie's televised breakdown.  Charlie clearly does not do this maliciously.

YvanEhtNioj said: "ACL2006 said: "This has a lot of buzz, so if it's received well I could definitely see a transfer. Get a Broadway name for Bobbie(Laura Benanti?, Sutton Foster? Cynthia Erivo?)."

There was talk about this in a different thread. Most people Craig would most likely come with the production. I would love to see Sutton orRebecca Naomi Jones"

Not so fast. I saw Craig, years ago as Giulietta in Aspects of Love at the Men