Is there any specific talk in various spheres of another ITW revival on West End or screen? Seems like some Michelle Dockery audition video for Cinderella has popped up online recently for it...
"Dockery is also a jazz singer. She sang at the 50th Anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in London and has occasionally sung with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern, who plays her mother in Downton Abbey. Dockery cites her musical influences as Peggy Lee, Melody Gardot and Billie Holiday in her more melancholy moods."
lady mary is my favorite character on downton abbey and i'm sure she'd be brilliant in the role, but is she too old? how old is cinderella supposed to be anyway? i've always thought of her as being closer to twenty than thirty, but from what i can find most of the actresses who have played her in major productions in the past have been in their late twenties, with the outliers being laura benanti at 22 and helen dallimore at 38 (??!). but there's obviously a lot more wiggle room on stage than onscreen. if they're going for an older cinderella i wonder if the rest of the cast is going to skew slightly older as well.