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Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#25Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 2:13am
"The only character Judy Garland ever played was Judy Garland."
I assume you mean on Broadway . . .
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#26Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 2:14amDouble. Updated On: 7/18/11 at 02:14 AM
#27Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 9:19am
Vanessa Williams in a revival of IRMA LA DOUCE
Harry Connick Jr in PAL JOEY
Joe Mantegna as Billy Flynn in CHICAGO
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random person 112
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/11
#28Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 9:20amJulie Andrews as mrs. lovett in sweeney todd.
#29Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 9:29am
John Cullum as Sweeney Todd
Kathy Bates as Rose in Gypsy
Anne Hathaway as Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Updated On: 7/18/11 at 09:29 AM
#30Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 9:45amWasn't Harry Connick Jr rumored, at one point, to be interested in playing Pal Joey?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#31Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 11:37am
Sutton could still do Mattress, she's barely into her early 30s and still reads in her 20s.
She's 36. As much as I love her, I don't think looks in her 20s.
#32Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:12pmKelly Bishop as Joanne in Company
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#33Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:16pm
Sutton's 36? Well she still reads as young, and Winnifred doesn't have to be a 25 year old. Carol Burnett certainly wasn't pretty, just funny and charming.
Bishop could probably still play Joanne regionally.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#34Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:18pm
Cyndi Lauper as Princess Winnifred
Lady Gaga as Fanny Brice (not actually a missed opportunity yet!)
Gwyneth Paltrow as Nellie Forbush
Mickie Rooney as Peter Pan
PennybankBill
Stand-by Joined: 11/1/10
#35Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 12:56pmFor some reason, I believe Robert Morse would have made a pretty good Buddy in FOLLIES. That's all.
#36Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 1:03pm
Two major revivals of rock musicals were planned in the Eighties that never got off the ground. The billing for one always made me smile:
DIVINE
in
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
She's the sweetest transvestite of them all!
The producer was about to start talks with Mr. Milstead's manager, but the day they were to meet, Divine turned up dead.
Also apparently booted about was a major revival of JCS in the Eighties with Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson as the leads, but that's only ever been heard as rumor*. (I think it would've been great, personally.)
* I can confirm the Divine casting, as I work for/with the producer in question.
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
BeingAlive2
Swing Joined: 7/11/11
#37Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 1:18pmPatti Lupone and Julie Andrews as Elphaba and Glinda
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#38Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 1:28pm
The 1994 Central Park production of KISS ME KATE with Kevin Kline that never happened.
And my fantasy - what if in 1997, after the closing of STEEL PIER, Karen Ziemba and Kristin Chenoweth could have reunited for a revival of WONDERFUL TOWN?
Updated On: 9/4/11 at 01:28 PM
PennybankBill
Stand-by Joined: 11/1/10
#39Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 1:30pmAfter hearing that, I realised Kevin Kline would make a perfect Ben Stone!
#40Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 1:51pm
Brian Stokes Mitchell as Javert
Norbert Leo Butz as George Seurat
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Mercutio
#41Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 5:27pm
"Sutton could still do Mattress, she's barely into her early 30s and still reads in her 20s."
"She's 36. As much as I love her, I don't think looks in her 20s."
Sutton always reads younger to me. She'd be a great Winnifred, but I'd rather see it go to Leslie Kritzer. Also, I feel she kinda already played the part in SHREK.
Also, she's NOT too old! Tracy Ullman did the movie, and she's was in her forties. Denis O'Hare was Prince Dauntless. They don't have to be young kids, it can be played either way.
redmustang
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#42Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 5:33pm
Liza as Mama Rose about the time Daly did it.
Or 30 years ago, Chita as Mama Rose and Liza as Louise.
Or how about when Lupone is ready to exit Evita, Meryl Streep agrees to a 6-month run before she films the movie.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#43Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 6:17pm
Nathan Lane as Hanratty -- I loved Butz but Lane would've been excellent as well. he did it in workshops.
Angela Lansbury as Phyllis or Carlotta
Natasha Richardson & Vanessa Redgrave as Desiree and Mme Armfeldt (in a full production)
Norm Lewis as Coalhouse
Chita in Dear World
Beth Leavel as Mrs. Meers
Rachel York as Victor/Victoria --- coming full circle!
3bluenight
Stand-by Joined: 8/10/11
#44Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 6:41pmKIM STANLEY in a delicate balance - so close. and actually maybe vanessa Redgrave as agnes.
Namaste
#45Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 7:18pm
Liza would have made a terrific Madame Rose back in the day. Her "Some People" and "Rose's Turn" are sensational!
It still hurts me that they didn't end up getting Judy Garland and Ann Margret for Rose and Louise for the 60's film version.
Kelly Bishop as Joanne? Where do I sign? I love that woman. It could still happen, right? Please?
The Kevin Kline/Julie Andrews Sweeney Todd film I once heard about simply fascinates me. Mary Poppins as Mrs. Lovett? Once again...where do I sign?
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#46Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/4/11 at 8:53pm
Going with the songs/parts we can only lament Judy not singing/playing - "I'm Still Here"/Carlotta. I also think Ann Margret would have knocked that part out of the park at one point.
I would have loved to see Alice Playten take on Hattie in the current revival of Follies. She would have been a bit younger than most other Hattie's, but she truly was a Broadway baby (look up her performance of "Poor Little Person" on the Ed Sullivan show).
Going along with the current production of Follies, Eartha Kitt as Solange. Would love to have heard that throaty growl of hers on "Ah, Paris!"
#47Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/5/11 at 6:08am
Vanessa Williams as Phyllis Rogers Stone or Desiree Armfeldt
Donna Murphy as Maria Callas (MASTER CLASS)
Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
It doesn't warrant a full production, but I've always been surprised that Encores! or some other limited revival company never mounted HALLELUJAH, BABY! for Audra McDonald.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#48Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/5/11 at 9:59am
It doesn't warrant a full production, but I've always been surprised that Encores! or some other limited revival company never mounted HALLELUJAH, BABY! for Audra McDonald.
It could still happen, couldn't it?
I was thinking that Victoria Clark could've have made a fantastic Amalia Balash.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#49Brilliant Missed Casting Opportunities
Posted: 9/5/11 at 10:17am
I want to get back to the anecdote about Elvis's career getting saved by taking the role of - I guess Tony - in West Side Story? Huh? Leaving aside how successful he would have been in the role, his film career certainly didn't die in the early 60s. In fact most of his movie successes - Viva Las Vegas et all - were after West Side Story. Not before it.
