Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#1
Posted: 2/27/18 at 6:55pm

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

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#2
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:00pm

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

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#3
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:02pm

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

LOL

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#4
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:07pm

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

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#5
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:13pm

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. 

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#6
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:19pm

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

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#7
Posted: 2/27/18 at 7:24pm

I. Can’t. Egan.

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#8
Posted: 2/27/18 at 8:11pm
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.
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#9
Posted: 2/27/18 at 8:41pm
I get the nostalgia factor, but why not have her play Mrs. Potts? I’m sure she’d sing the title song beautifully.

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#10
Posted: 2/27/18 at 8:44pm
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.
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#11
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:07pm
I wonder if she'll sing a Change in Me
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#12
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:13pm
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
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#13
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:15pm

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

Lmfao! 

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#14
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:17pm
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.
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#15
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:17pm

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

 

Now THAT was funny.

 

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#16
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:21pm

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

This wins the thread. Brilliant and hilarious!!!


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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#17
Posted: 2/27/18 at 9:57pm
Good for her! Even better for audiences!
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#18
Posted: 2/27/18 at 10:55pm

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.

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#19
Posted: 7/20/18 at 8:32pm
Not to be rude but the production photos look like its a production of Granny and the Beast.
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#20
Posted: 7/20/18 at 8:39pm

that wig thou...

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#21
Posted: 7/20/18 at 8:41pm
I think Susan looks fine but the scenery, costumes and wigs look cheap.
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#22
Posted: 7/20/18 at 8:51pm

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.

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#23
Posted: 7/20/18 at 9:06pm
Norma:

You're a woman of Fifty.
FIFTY.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being Fifty.
Unless you're trying to be Twenty-five.
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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#24
Posted: 7/20/18 at 9:34pm

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? 

 

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Susan Egan to reprise role in BATB#25
Posted: 7/20/18 at 9:42pm

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.

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