Isn't theatre supposed to be a fantasy? I hate when people take this things so literal. Part of the magic is in the make-believe, you can be whoever you want to be. An audience knows that actors are not in real life the characters they portray on stage.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
This really would be divine casting. I don't get the criticisms of her in this part at all. She really does seem ideal. She's incredibly charismatic, quirky, has the star power needed to headline a revival of Mame, and would actually be a knockout in the park. What's there to dislike?
I was so excited to see Cher play Mame when I first heard about the projected TV movie back in the day, it's sad it never happened. MichaelBennett, I think the idea of Gwyneth as Mame is brilliant, bring on Tilda Swinton (who rarely gets to play funny) or Charlize Theron as her Vera and you got yourself an A-list film version. I do think the idea of a Paltrow-headlined MAME revival could be an event, by all accounts, she has been great in her West End work.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Catherine Zeta Jones was in talks a few years back for the Menier when they were interested in reviving the show, but Jerry Herman is holding out for a larger scale production to materialise.
My thoughts on Bette was perhaps 10 years too late, but she looks good for 70...
Goldie Hawn again 10 or 20 years ago would have been amazing
and allthatjazz you need to get a grip...with your line of thinking we'll be seeing Chita Rivera headlining a new WEST SIDE STORY revival and Angela Lansbury playing Phyllis Rogers Stone in FOLLIES.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
MAME certainly works for me, but I'm not sure how to cast it if the goal is a 50-year-old whose name alone will sell out a Broadway house eight times a week.
I loved Jan Maxwell in FOLLIES, but I don't believe she's a big "money" name and she's already closer to 60 than 50.
To me, Gwyneth Paltrow lacks the charisma.
I guess we'll just have to wait for Anne Hathaway...
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Actually Carlos, I wouldn't mind seeing Chita and Liza reprising their roles in Chicago or Patti reprising Evita. I know most people don't feel the same way, but I'd be thrilled.
First of all, Bette doesn't look her age. Second of all, you're all high if you think Mame can't be older than 50.
I know plenty of ladies who are aunts of 10 to 13-year-old boys right now. And that's only in Act I. In Act II, Patrick is out of college, so Mame could easily be in her 60s (even mid to late 60s).
So shut the hell up. *winky face*
It's a role like Dolly Levi. You can be 30 or 300, as long as you can play the part.
But that's the key, isn't it? Without the right actress playing the part, you have nothing.
I think Bette would be great as Mame ... right now. Today. Not 10 years ago, or 10 months ago.
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