Rosie is already campaigning for Miss Hannigan...
Rosie is already campaigning for Miss Hannigan...
#1Rosie is already campaigning for Miss Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 1:56pm
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Rosies_Dream_Broadway_Role_Miss_Hannigan_20100729
If she's serious about this, she should start taking vocal lessons with a top teacher in the city.
Updated On: 7/29/10 at 01:56 PM
#2Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 1:58pm
Here is a thread from last month about Rosie's interest in the role.
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=1018363#4038879
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#2Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:00pmCan we just cast Andrea McArdle & be done with it?
#3Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:03pmCan we just cast Jane Lynch & be done with it?
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#4Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:05pmOOOOOOO...Jane Lynch! Well played, madbrian!
#5Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:11pmOr Allison Janney
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#6Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:12pm
MISS Hannigan.
Thank you.
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#8Rosie is already campaigning for MISS Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:19pm
Allison Janney!!! YES. I personally think that would be perfect. As much as I hate ANNIE, Miss Hannigan is a great role and would love to see Janney in it.
I was only like 8 when the ABC TV movie version came out and I thought the woman that played Hannigan was Rosie. :) haha
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#9Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:19pmRosie would put more butts in the seats than all those ideas combined. They'd be an idiot not to cast her. Get Harvey to play rooster while you're at it. They do never do explain how he got that nickname, do they?
#10Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:22pm
Here is my dream Annie cast (if the show has to happen, not that I want it to happen) from my blog.
http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com/2010/07/annie-revival-2012.html
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#11Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:22pm
They do never do explain how he got that nickname, do they?
I see what you did there.
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#12Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:22pmWell, he does crow.
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#13Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:26pm
ROSIE??...GOD SAVE US ALL!!!
Andrea McArdle would be a good move, but only would appeal to theatre people understanding of the original cast of Annie...
Allison Janney could work, I can see her as a bitter old spinster.
Jane Lynch has a wide fanbase and appeal as the deliciously evil Sue Sylvester on GLEE...which means she's got singing chops. She'll be the ideal choice.
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#14Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:27pm
Ugh, what a terrible idea.
Janney would be great but my number one choice is Haydn Gwynne, unfortunately she isn't a name and it wouldn't be easy to bring her over again.
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Updated On: 7/29/10 at 02:27 PM
#15Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:29pm
This is sooooo painful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcmaEr5FZXk
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#16Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 2:32pmIt hardly matters. Something tells me this show is going to bomb.
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#17Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:09pm"That woman" who played Hannigan in the ABC movie was Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates.
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#18Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:34pm
I would love for Allison Janney or Jane Lynch to play Hannigan, either would be great. I'd also love to see Beth Leavel or Carolee Carmello but unfortunately neither of them would get butts in seats. Just about anyone other than Rosie would probably make me happy though, I can't stand her.
Updated On: 7/29/10 at 03:34 PM
#19Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:45pm
It's a shame Broadway has to cast this way now. Nobody outside of a 10-block radius knew who Dorothy Loudon was in the original. Or Reid Shelton.
Somehow butts were in the seats. For many years.
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#20Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:46pmThe only reason to cast O'Donnell in this is because of marquis value, and frankly, I don't think thats at all what it used to be. I think Jane Lynch would very possibly be a bigger draw in 2012 than Rosie.
#21Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:50pm
Can we just cast Jane Lynch & be done with it?
I doubt they would be able to get her for it.
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#22Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:58pmAndrea would get press she got it when she did a regional theatre
#23Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 3:59pmI'm sure that the Glee conflicts will be too much for Lynch. Same issue with the proponents of Lea in Funny Girl...not to open that can of worms.
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#24Rosie is already campaigning for Mrs. Hannigan...
Posted: 7/29/10 at 4:00pm
Ultimately, I think the awful revival in the 90s in part proved casting a 'name' as Miss Hannigan is something of a mistake - Hannigan is a supporting role (despite Loudon winning a lead Tony for it) and it spoils the balance of the story when she becomes the inevitable emphasis instead of Annie and Warbucks. As Best12 pointed out, the show has played well for thirty years (including in a successful recebt non-Equity tour) without star casting it.
Watching the clips of McArdle in NC, she's clearly having fun with it, but I don't really think she's the best choice to do a revival on Broadway.
Updated On: 7/29/10 at 04:00 PM
