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Best "stunt cast"?#6
Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:50pm

Reba McEntire in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN.

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Best "stunt cast"?#7
Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:51pm

Reba McEntire in South Pacific. literally my favorite Nellie Forbush of all time.

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Best "stunt cast"?#8
Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:59pm

What's considered stunt casting? Reba can sing, so I guess I don't consider that to be stunt casting necessarily. Is it more depending on whether the person has theater experience versus just singing and performing experience?

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Best "stunt cast"?#9
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:03pm

Bette Midler and Jake both stunted the gross of both shows. There’s no way they would make as much money as they did without them. Sure they are both talented, but it’s still stunt casting.

And I remember this musical I remember their brilliance And I might never sleep again...

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Best "stunt cast"?#10
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:05pm

I guess I take stunt casting as when someone joins a show already running. Someone opening up a show doesn't strike me as stunt casting. Reba coming in after Bernadette left ANNIE GET YOUR GUN was stunt casting of the best kind. It kept the show open and she was fabulous.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

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Best "stunt cast"?#11
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:07pm

Fantasia in COLOR PURPLE. She made that God-awful mess of a show watchable in a performance that i don’t think anyone expected the reality tv winner to be able to do at that time.

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Best "stunt cast"?#12
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:08pm

There have been so many threads on this exact topic over the years, and EVERY SINGLE TIME it leads to a debate about what distinguishes "stunt" casting from "star" casting.

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Best "stunt cast"?#13
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:15pm

Bernadette in A Little Night Music.

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Best "stunt cast"?#14
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:27pm

Sara Bareilles in Waitress

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Best #15
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:32pm

"stunt cast·ing

noun

the casting of a very famous actor or other celebrity as a guest star in a movie or TV show, in order to garner publicity."

Carry on.

Updated On: 11/15/17 at 04:32 PM

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Best #16
Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:43pm

Call_me_jorge said: "Bette Midler and Jake both stunted the gross of both shows. There’s no way they would make as much money as they did without them. Sure they are both talented, but it’s still stunt casting."

Jake has done a lot of stage work over the last 5 years. Hiring him to be in another play is not stunt casting. Bette has been doing shows and singing live on stage for years. Having her sing live on stage in a show... also not stunt casting. Revenue is not the sole determinant of what constitutes stunt casting. And I don't think "stunted the gross" means what you think it means.

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Best #17
Posted: 11/15/17 at 8:54pm

I would count Jake and Bette as stunt casts

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Best #18
Posted: 11/15/17 at 9:25pm

JBroadway said: "There have been so many threads on this exact topic over the years, and EVERY SINGLE TIME it leads to a debate about what distinguishes "stunt" casting from "star" casting."

And every time, people don't learn the difference. Best

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Best #19
Posted: 11/15/17 at 9:51pm

Josh Groban in The Great Comet

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Best #20
Posted: 11/15/17 at 10:57pm

Jane Lynch in Annie

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Best #21
Posted: 11/15/17 at 11:12pm

No doubt in my mind, Brendon Urie in Kinky Boots. I honestly don't know how nobody has mentioned that so far.

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Best #22
Posted: 11/16/17 at 6:53am

dearalanaaaa said: "No doubt in my mind, Brendon Urie in Kinky Boots. I honestly don't know how nobody has mentioned that so far."

Beat me to the punch!

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Best #23
Posted: 11/16/17 at 7:14am

JBroadway said: "There have been so many threads on this exact topic over the years, and EVERY SINGLE TIME it leads to a debate about what distinguishes "stunt" casting from "star" casting."

Basically..

Stunt casting: Famous actor a person doesn’t like who is cast in a role

Star casting: Famous actor a person does like who is cast in a role