FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
#1FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 10:38am
#2FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 10:45amWasn't there a recent regional revival that had some strong buzz?
Adair Haywind
Leading Actor Joined: 4/2/14
#2FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 10:47am
I'd be very happy if this happened! Think Whoopi would return as Pseudolous? 
#3FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:00amI LOVE this show and loved the last revival with Nathan Lane. Saw it multiple times with Lane and 3 times with Whoopi who was also wonderful. Then there's David Alan Grier... ummm... yeah. Oy! Anyway, I have mixed feelings about another revival. My interest would depend on casting. I honestly can't think of anyone currently with a big enough name, but who would also be RIGHT for the vaudevillian type humor of this show to pull it off. I can think of several names that would make me sob with depression (and possibly even suicidal) at the thought of their casting.
<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018
#5FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:03amMaybe Danny Burstein?
"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
#6FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 11:06amI know Roundabout was doing workshops of the all-male Forum that premiered at Williamstown, with Christopher Fitzgerald. I wonder if this is the same?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#8FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 12:05pm
How about Ellen DeGeneres if you want a woman again? She could be pretty good.
Aside from her, I'd love to see Danny as Pseudolus, James Corden could be inspired as well.
#9FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 12:17pmCorden is a great suggestion.
"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
#10FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 1:02pmI would love to see a reverse Godspell Original Toronto Cast situation- a bunch of great comedians and stage actors, mostly sort of past their prime, thrown together in a show that allows them all to shine.
#11FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 1:55pmCorden is a great suggestion. This may be the only musical I'd pay to see Jack Black star in.
#12FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 1:57pm
James Corden is maybe a little young.
Jim Dale would be a dream. Robin Williams could be fun!
#13FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 2:01pm
^ Is this the Shady Pines version of FORUM?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#14FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 2:04pm
"How about Ellen DeGeneres if you want a woman again? She could be pretty good."
If there was a gender-blind production I would consider Ellen for Hysterium before I would think of her as Pseudolus.
#15FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 2:40pm
Agree Ellen's quirkiness (which I love) is wrong for Pseudolus, but Hysterium... hysterical!!!
And Jack Black is one of the people I was referring to in my post when I said would make me suicidal!!!
Much as I LOVE Burstein (and think he would be amazing) I don't think he is a big enough name that a producer would consider him.
<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018
#16FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 4:21pmGeoffrey Rush
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#21FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 5:04pm
Forum is my very FAVORITE show. I'm so thrilled by this news. I think there's ton of potential in terms of casting.
James Corden, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Burstein, Christopher Fitzgerald (Although I see him more as a Hysterium) and yes, even Jack Black, would all be inspired.
Other actors I'd love to see tackle the role:
Martin Short
Mark Hammil
Mike Myers
Paul Reubens
John C. Riley
Rowan Atkinson
Josh Gad
Patton Oswalt
- just anyone but Richard Kind, Jason Alexander, Oliver Platt, or John Tracey Egan... Love them both, but we don't need a Nathan Lane copy...
Brooks Ashmanskas or Denis O'Hare as Hysterium
Jonathan Freeman as Marcus Lycus
Christopher Lloyd or Dick Van Dyke as Senex
Robert Morse as Erronius
And I'd love a too old/gawky Hero... Like Jim Parsons
Updated On: 4/25/14 at 05:04 PM
Acting4Food
Swing Joined: 8/31/11
#22FORUM Coming Back To Broadway?
Posted: 4/25/14 at 5:26pmHonestly, I think it would be great if they could get Lane to come back as Senex this time. And just watch, they'll probably try and get Josh Gad for Pseudolus...
Used to be Carl Magnum. Now I'm acting for food.
