The Evita Revival

[Patti_LuPone_Fan]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:24pm

I know there is already a thread for this but i am too lazy to find it. Anyway does anyone but me think Sutton Foster in Evita would rock!

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:24pm

Sutton Foster is SO wrong for that role it's not even funny. She can't even belt that high.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:26pm

AGAIN????

WE DO THIS EVERY WEEK! JESUS!

[Patti_LuPone_Fan]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:27pm

She can totally belt an E, do a strong mixed F

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:27pm

Aside from being wrong vocally, Sutton Foster does not have the dynamic presence to play Eva Peron. The role requires someone with a personality beyond being the bland girl.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:28pm

Evita has to belt a G...and she has some low notes that Sutton Foster probably couldn't hit, either.

[Patti_LuPone_Fan]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:30pm

Sutton is always remembered as the quirky heroine because she hasn't been given any other roles besides those types of characters. But she won't do revivals so she will continue to be typecast

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:31pm

Sutton can't even sing the part. She's out of the question.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:32pm

Sutton Foster only if Nathan Lane plays Che or Juan

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:32pm

She's also about as exciting to watch onstage as paint drying.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:33pm

I also don't think she could pass as a 15 year old.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:33pm

If Sutton Foster is stereotyped as the quirky, funny heroine, why was she cast as Eponine in Les Mis?

[Patti_LuPone_Fan]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:34pm

That was before Millie

I am referring to one of the national tours she was in

[blaxx]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:36pm

There's 6 pages of this , hello?!

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=1001146#3887229

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:37pm

Sutton Foster
A) Is Too Old
B) Has the wrong type of belt for EVITA
C) Does not have the range

She can not be Eva Peron.

[Patti_LuPone_Fan]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:39pm

Patti was 30
Elena was 32
Sutton is 34

How is that too old early-mid 30's can pull it off

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:40pm

Patti and Elena read younger than their ages. And

A) They Have the right Type of Belt
B) They Have the range.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:41pm

I also don't think she could pass as a 15 year old.

I don't think Patti made a very convincing 15 year old, either. but that's besides the point. Sutton isn't right for Evita. it's not the end of the world if your favorite actor isn't right for a part, you know.

Updated On: 8/23/09 at 01:41 PM

[Patti_LuPone_Fan]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:42pm

Elena's voice was shot like Idina Menzel voice on a two show day

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:42pm

Elena still had the range (at some point). Sutton does not.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:45pm

If you wanted an all perky version of Evita with a happy ending, I would say yes.DO it as a musical comedy & she nails the role.

She would also be dynamite in the musical of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane doing the Bette Davis role .

Updated On: 8/23/09 at 01:45 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 2:06pm

Bottom line, you won't be happy until everyone agrees to Sutton Foster as Evita.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 3:44pm

I think Sutton Foster would be a terrible Evita in nearly every way, but I think she COULD pass as a teenage girl. Just not the kind of teenage girl that Eva Duarte is supposed to be.

If Sutton Foster is stereotyped as the quirky, funny heroine, why was she cast as Eponine in Les Mis?

Eponine is, technically, quirky and funny in the original novel, and she saves Marius' life, which I suppose makes her a heroine as well. Most actresses choose to play up her pitiful and tragic sides, but not all of them.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 4:14pm

Evita is an iron fist inside a velvet glove. Sutton could be believed as the velvet glove, but not the iron fist.

You have to understand that the movie of Evita was a travesty with Madonna's music changed because she couldn't sing the original score and the material toned down. The stage version is more fierce.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 4:23pm

Eponine is, technically, quirky and funny in the original novel, and she saves Marius' life, which I suppose makes her a heroine as well. Most actresses choose to play up her pitiful and tragic sides, but not all of them

That, and when she was cast as Eponine (understudy), she was pretty much Random Replacement Les Miz Ensemble Person #802324. She had no "stereotype" then.