ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
#1ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:40pm
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140278-Nicholaw-to-Direct-ElfThe-Musical-on-Broadway-at-the-Hirschfeld
Updated On: 6/11/10 at 12:40 PM
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#2ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:41pm
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#3ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:41pmWOW!! That didn't take long. I doubt White Christmas returns for a third year.
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#4ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:45pm
I love the movie, even though I'm not a fan of Will Ferrell or taht Zoey creature who can't act.
This could be a fun show, if done right!
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#5ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:50pmI hope Lea Michele plays ELF!!!!!!!!
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#6ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:53pmI hear she's always wanted to!
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#7ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:55pmAnd if GLEE is on a holiday break there's no reason she couldn't! OH MY GOD I HOPE THIS HAPPENS!!!
#8ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 1:01pmI love this movie, so I'm excited.
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#9ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 1:07pmI'm not usually one to get excited about holiday shows of this ilk, but ELF was a very charming movie, Sklar/Begueling can write some wonderful tunes, Martin/Meehan are obviously talented, award-winning book writers, and Casey Nicholaw's work is usually delightful. Not having heard any of the material yet, I will withhold judgment, but with the right casting I daresay it could be a great, little show.
#10ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 1:09pmI hope they get Zooey to reprise her role!
#11ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 1:21pmIs it bad that I am more excited for this than I was for any of the new shows this year?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#12ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 1:54pm
^^Same boat!
Although I will miss White Christmas a bit, it's being done at Philadelphia's Walnut though!
#13ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 2:16pmWho's the set designer?
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#14ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 3:22pm
Based only on the movie, no music or anything like that, I'd love to see Christopher Fitzgerald as the lead. He's got the goofy AND the innocence.
Sadly, Lea Michele won't be available to take the Zooey Deschanel role as I hear she'll be starring in an off-off-Broadway revival of Carrie with Betty Buckley reprising her role as Carrie's mother; Barbra Streisand will be directing. In Lea's place, the love interest will be portrayed by Patti LuPone.
#15ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 3:44pm
Christopher Fitzgerald as the lead. He's got the goofy AND the innocence.
YES. I was just thinking the other day how good he'd be in this role. I have no idea if the producers are going for a star, but if not, I believe there are three Broadway actors right now with the comedic skill to play Buddy: Chris Fitzgerald, Norbert Leo Butz, and Christopher Sieber, and out of those, Fitzgerald really has that necessary innocent quality that you mentioned.
Also, $20 says Jennifer Cody is cast as an elf.
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Updated On: 6/11/10 at 03:44 PM
Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent
#16ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 3:46pmI am tired of screen-to-stage adaptations of movies from recent years, but this is good material to expand on in a musical. Some dramatic weight could be just what Elf would need to go to the next level much like what Big was incapable of doing.
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#17ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 3:47pm
Also, $20 says Jennifer Cody is cast as an elf.
I'll raise you to $50. Lol, if she is in the city, she will be in the show.
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#18ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 4:12pm
"Christian Anderson played Buddy (Farrell's role in the flick), a human-sized man who is raised by Santa's elves on the North Pole and sent to New York to find his real family. George Wendt played Santa Claus, Mark Jacoby Buddy's father, and Beth Leavel his mother."
-BroadwayWorld Article
Any thoughts on this casting, if any of these people are used in the show?
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#19ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 4:28pmI think Christopher Fitzgerald would be an excellent Buddy! Hopefully the producers decide to go with an actual Broadway actor instead of a "big name". I definitely think Fitzgerald has the comedic chops to tackle this part.
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#20ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 5:17pmAhhhh this is wonderful. Although someone please explain to me why Casey Nicholaw gets to be a Broadway director?
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#21ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 6:21pm
Ahhhh this is wonderful. Although someone please explain to me why Casey Nicholaw gets to be a Broadway director?
Cause he did a dang good job with Drowsy Chaperone?
#22ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 6:22pmI'd prefer Norbert Leo Butz in the role.
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#23ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 6:26pmEven though he's probably too old for it, I think John Lithgow would be great.
#24ELF To Play The Hirschfeld Theatre This Holiday Season
Posted: 6/11/10 at 6:28pmJan Maxwell
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