Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB

[LindaSmyth]

Does anyone know if this will be a concert version or...?

I am a big fan of hers, I wish she would come back to Broadway!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/That-Girl-is-Strange-But-Special-Susan-Egan-to-Reprise-Role-in-BEAUTY-AND-THE-BEAST-at-5-Star-Theatricals-20180226

[blaxx]

Is she playing the castle? She's almost 50. 

[WldKingdomHM]

blaxx said: "Is she playing the castle? She's almost 50."

LOL

[nealb1]

She should be playing Mrs. Potts.  LyndaSmith, no it's not a concert version.  It's a fully staged version of the show.  

[LesWickedly]

This was done with Ellen Greene in Little Shop and Glenn Close in Sunset. Actors returning to their iconic roles. Sure, might look weird to someone who is going to just see Beauty and the Beast, but those who know it will be excited. 

[blaxx]

Look there she goes that girl who is so...that middle age woman who is so peculiar...

[pmensky]

I. Can’t. Egan.

[QueenAlice]

I love it. It’s absurd, but if all those ladies can play Annie Oakley and Peter Pan in their 50s and there is some theatre that wants to produce it for her to Star again- than why the fcuk not. If I were in LA I’d sure go.

[adamgreer]

I get the nostalgia factor, but why not have her play Mrs. Potts? I’m sure she’d sing the title song beautifully.

[QueenAlice]

If you were a woman in her late 40s living in California you would know why she wouldn’t be interested in playing the old woman role.

[NOWaWarning]

I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me

[broadwaysfguy]

when i read this i admit i immediately looked up her age
if she feels good about doing it and people enjoy it
go for it

[blaxx]

NOWaWarning said: "I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me"

Lmfao! 

[Jordan Catalano]

Man, I wish I could see this. This was the first broadway show I ever saw and I’d give anything to be able to relive this.

[South Fl Marc]

NOWaWarning said: "I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me"

 

Now THAT was funny.

 

[adamgreer]

NOWaWarning said: "I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me"

This wins the thread. Brilliant and hilarious!!!

[Gorlois]

Good for her! Even better for audiences!

[AEA AGMA SM]

Jordan Catalano said: "Man, I wish I could see this. This was the first broadway show I ever saw and I’d give anything to be able to relive this."

It was mine too, seeing it shortly after the Tonys that year well before they moved out of the Palace and downsized for the Lunt. I still hold such great memories of that original production that I'm hesitant to ever see another that doesn't have the full Disney budget behind it. So many just absolutely terrible production photos out there, even from companies that normally do very good work. 

I'll be curious to see what the physical production for this one ends up looking like.

[Bwayfan292]

Not to be rude but the production photos look like its a production of Granny and the Beast.

[WldKingdomHM]

that wig thou...

[CATSNYrevival]

I think Susan looks fine but the scenery, costumes and wigs look cheap.

[kp]

Bwayfan292 said: "Not to be rude but the production photos look like its a production of Granny and the Beast."

I love it when people say not to be rude then are.  The photos I saw would certainly not make me think Granny and The Beast. Your idea of a granny is certainly different to mine though I suppose you used (pinched) the phrase to score a cheap laugh.

[markypoo]

Norma:

You're a woman of Fifty.
FIFTY.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being Fifty.
Unless you're trying to be Twenty-five.

[Auggie27]

Worth noting that this thread is mostly a group of men commenting on the appropriateness  of a woman playing a role.  I'll say no more, but this is what women always say about Hollywood: men decide what they can and should play. 

For the record, she looks great in the photos. Maybe Belle is a woman who never married and finds meaning and love in early mid-life.  Maybe the story deepens, her relationship with her father,  being isolated in a town as a single woman. Who reads.

If she can still sing it, who cares? 

 

[BroadwayRox3588]

I think she looks wonderful. And by the way, if you have to preface a comment with "not to be rude," that generally isn't a good start. The "Granny and the Beast" comment is very disrespectful.