Ann Margret Heading To Broadway??

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/2/12 at 11:06am

YES, PLEASE!!!!!!

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 2/2/12 at 6:55pm

Not without her hyphen, she isn't!

[DWalk]

Posted: 2/3/12 at 4:28pm

I saw her in The Best Little Whorehouse Tour a few years ago. Although I was glad I got to see someone many consider a legend, that is the only positive thing I could say about it.

She didn't fit in onstage. She was outsung by the other performers and seemed to just be reading her lines without really playing the character for us.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/3/12 at 4:33pm

I saw her in that tour, too. It was right after she'd hurt her wrist, so I assume she was whacked on on painkillers, at least that's the only explanation that I can come up with for what was truly an... unusual performance. She kept stumbling over her lyrics and would giggle and look to the other performers to cue her. But they didn't.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/3/12 at 6:52pm

^Given her many years in nightclubs and Vegas, perhaps it's safe to assume that her disappointing performance in Whorehouse could be best explained by injury/recovery.

The real question is why she didn't come to Broadway years ago.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/3/12 at 7:07pm

That's what I figured. I knew she wasn't a stranger to the stage, but this perforamnce was really out there. I guess she's a "show must go on" kind of gal.

[xxdrewboy85xx]

Posted: 2/3/12 at 7:08pm

when I opened this thread I thought for a second it was going to say she will be reprising her role in Newsies ( has that role been cast yet??)

I got scared for a second.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 2/3/12 at 8:01pm

Ann-Marget in a family show based on a children's book. Is she the new Freckleface Strawberry?

Please give Ann some meat and not some family show. She deserves something she can sink her teeth into.

[ComingUpRoses2]

Posted: 2/4/12 at 6:19am

I've always been an Ann-Margret fan and have been dying to see her in a really terrific role on stage. She really must have been whacked out on something during her Whorehouse tour, cause I've seen some clips and she's totally out of it.

She's a terrific actress and used to have a great voice (don't know if it's gone now or what.) I just can't think of any roles for women her age that she could play anymore. She'd have made a great Desiree in Night Music years ago and could very well still play some of the gals in Follies (Hattie, Carlotta, Stella, etc.) Who knows?

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 2/4/12 at 8:06am

I also saw the Whorehouse tour...and I really regret that. Like the others have said, it was not pretty, but I saw it well after she had had the injury and she should have been over it. There's a reason it didn't come into New York like they'd planned.

Her voice was almost gone then, too...so I can only imagine what shape it's in now.

[canmark]

Posted: 2/4/12 at 9:08am

I want to see her reprise her role as Ann-Margrock. That was my first introduction to her when I was a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXCiS2FpmIc

[goldenboy]

Posted: 2/4/12 at 9:54am

She should reprise her role as Kim Mcafee in Bye Bye Birdie with a geriatric cast!

[ArtMan]

Posted: 2/4/12 at 11:01am

I have been a fan of Ann Margret for years. My first time seeing her live was in a show during the early eighties, where to my suprise her setlist included her "disco' hits. My seat was not good, but it didn't matter. Years later, I also saw The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Maybe before her wrist injury.. maybe not. She looked and sounded great to me. After the show, I had the chance to meet her later at a private party. Sure she was older and wider. But who cared. Here in front of me was "Miss Kitten With A Whip" herself. I was in awe of her. For the fans, check out her disco hit, "What I Do To Men"