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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway

dev101

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#1
Posted: 11/8/15 at 11:46am

What celebrities would you like to see on broadway?

My top choices are Matt Bomer (in a musical), Bradley Cooper (I know he was just in Elephant Man, but he's fantastic), and I feel like Robert Downey Jr. could do something interesting, but he might be too famous :/

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#2
Posted: 11/8/15 at 12:40pm

Amy Adams
Benedict Cumberbatch
Michael Douglas
Michael Fassbender
Anne Hathaway

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#3
Posted: 11/8/15 at 12:51pm

I'd love to see P!nk take a shot at Broadway.

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#4
Posted: 11/8/15 at 12:55pm

Lady Gaga and Anne Hathaway.

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dev101

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#5
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:12pm

OMG yes Lady Gaga would be amazing! and id love to see Anne Hathaway too.

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#6
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:20pm

Hasn't Lady Gaga's acting on AHS been critically panned?

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#7
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:35pm

Lady Gaga's performance in AHS is fine. She's not giving an Oscar worthy performance or anything, but she's not as bad as she's been made out to be. She's got a great voice that I'm sure would transfer well to broadway.

I'd love to see Amy Poehler do a musical. She's a talented comedian with a nice voice. She could give a pretty excellent performance in the right part.

mc1227

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#8
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:40pm

My wish is that RDJ spends his remaining time as an actor on stage instead of in a superhero costume. My Goodness, how much $ do you really need?

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dev101

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#9
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:46pm

mc1227 said: "My wish is that RDJ spends his remaining time as an actor on stage instead of in a superhero costume. My Goodness, how much $ do you really need?

Exactly what i was thinking. Like he has the range to do broadway, and he could really find something he is passionate about like Bradley Cooper did with Elephant Man. RDJ never needs to work another day in his life.

Updated On: 11/8/15 at 01:46 PM

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#10
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:50pm

Its already been talked about a lot but Kate Winslet would be great

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#11
Posted: 11/8/15 at 1:57pm

Kate Winslet, Amy Adams, Viola Davis (she needs to return to the stage), Dylan McDermott, the return of Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, and Claire Danes (although after her Broadway debut in 2007 she stated that she might not have the energy to do Broadway again).

"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#12
Posted: 11/8/15 at 2:14pm

Johnny Depp

Anne Hathaway

Meryl Streep

Angelina Jolie

Christian Bale

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#13
Posted: 11/8/15 at 2:31pm

Not really a celebrity but I would love to see Naya Rivera on Broadway. I've said this before but she would kill Angelica or Eliza in Hamilton

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#14
Posted: 11/8/15 at 2:33pm

Cher

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#15
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:01pm

I'm pretty sure we've had many many threads on this same topic before. But whatever, I'll bite:

Whenever someone poses this question, the first person that comes to my mind is Christoph Waltz. I'm quite surprised he hasn't done it already, to be honest. He'd be brilliant onstage, especially in the right role.

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#16
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:20pm

I'm still not that fond of plays and I can't think of any celebrity off the top of my head whose singing is up to snuff who hasn't already been on Broadway. I don't know. Can I say Jodi Benson?

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#17
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:31pm

I'd like to see Emma Watson give it a shot, and Jen Lawrence. I'd kill to see Kathy Bates, Viola Davis, and Meryl Streep again. Eddie Redmayne would be interesting. I'd like to see Darren Criss originate something.

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#18
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:36pm

"Eddie Redmayne would be interesting."

The 2010 Tony Voters would agree!

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#19
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:39pm

JBroadway said: ""Eddie Redmayne would be interesting."

The 2010 Tony Voters would agree!

Ahh I forgot about that! Plays are too dry for my liking so I never go, to be honest.

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#20
Posted: 11/8/15 at 4:41pm

Daniel Day-Lewis

Isabelle Huppert

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#21
Posted: 11/8/15 at 5:19pm

Plays are too dry for my liking so I never go, to be honest.

And then there's the whole ACCENT thing.

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#22
Posted: 11/8/15 at 6:26pm

I would like to see Leonardo Dicaprio in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#23
Posted: 11/8/15 at 6:33pm

The trouble with "celebrities", is that they achieved their celebrity through movies. Acting in movies is sure a different animal than acting on the stage, and frankly, I think our stage actors have the craft, the stamina, and the professionalism that film actors don't have. Even I could probably look okay in a movie if they did 100 takes of my dialog.

This sort of relates to the thread with actors using earpieces. The "stars" don't need to memorize (do the work), which I think is sort of ridiculous.

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Celebrities you'd like to see on Broadway#24
Posted: 11/8/15 at 8:04pm

FindingNamo said: "Plays are too dry for my liking so I never go, to be honest.

And then there's the whole ACCENT thing."

And don't get me started on foreign films. IF I WANTED TO READ, I'D GO TO THE LIBRARY.

I'd like to see Tilda Swinton, Gillian Anderson, Laura Dern, Romola Garai or Christina Hendricks on Broadway.