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[adamgreer]

BroadwayConcierge said: "I want this production here ASAP, but I only want it with LuPone. I’d be okay waiting a season if it means we can get LuPone with it. "

This is how I feel as well. I’m only interested in seeing this with LuPone. 

[henrikegerman]

Could that rumored Oscar winner possibly be Anna Paquin?

 

[givesmevoice]

I know I've said it earlier in the thread, but I would be shocked if this production transfers without LuPone. Her reviews and status in the [American] musical theater world alone would be reason enough, but given her history, I'd be really surprised if she didn't have a contract that guaranteed she would come to Broadway with the show. (Not to mention that Marianne Elliot kept pushing her to join the show even after LuPone said no. Elliot REALLY wanted to work with her, and I can't imagine would then leave the sole American in the cast behind if the show transfers.)

I also can't trust someone who thinks recasted is a word.

[BJR]

Really, everyone - remember the last time Patti got left in London with a show? AIn't gonna happen.

Clearly, the rumor is Anne Hathaway.

[ljay889]

The Patti haters are too funny, always trying to diminish her success. She will be doing this on broadway, whether it’s this season or next, point blank. She received some of her best reviews.

[Kad]

I would be shocked if Patti did not have a right of first refusal for a transfer in this contract- or any high-profile contract she does, with an exceedingly sizeable payout if she is not asked. She's no fool. It's up to her.

[SomethingPeculiar]

henrikegerman said: "Could that rumored Oscar winner possibly be Anna Paquin?"

Not if they actually want to sell tickets! 

Hathaway is the obvious candidate. But, has she signed a contract/committed to starring in it? And do they have a theatre lined up for the spring? (Even though Jordan Roth is listed as a producer, I don't think that necessarily means it would play a Jujamcyn house. The Kerr would be the only possibility, if Girl From North Country falls through.)

[IdinaBellFoster]

If this transferred with Anne Hathaway and Patti LuPone I would sell my kidney for a premium seat.

[raddersons]

I'm not anti-Hathaway, but I don't love her for this role.

If they're really going Hollywood... I want Brie Larson or Emily Blunt. But that would never happen.

[GreeneStreet]

Is your source the person on Talkin Broadway who says its gonna be Patti and Hathaway this season? They also claimed its gonna be a limited engagement.

Also since I brought up Talkin Broadway that forum is so annoying to use, clicking on every response grinds my gears.

[Mister Matt]

Clearly, the rumor is Anne Hathaway.

I'm not convinced that is so clear.  It could just as easily be Anna Paquin, Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet or Jennifer Hudson.

[Catsbroadwayfan]

So your source is just based off another rumor? Okay.

And yes I cant stand that forum.

Well with that, it looks like its next season then.

[QueenAlice]

I'd just like to point out the brilliance of Sondheim in allowing this to be done. He has just created a completely new market and revenue stream for the show. I can only imagine every regional theatre that has done the musical, will be doing it again with this revised script once the regional rights are rolled out.

[Kad]

Sondheim's willingness to have his shows be reconceived and his openness to other artistic visions is a big factor for how he's gotten so established.

[Sondheimite]

Mister Matt said: "Clearly, the rumor is Anne Hathaway.

I'm not convinced that is so clear. It could just as easily be Anna Paquin, Natalie Portman, Kate Winsletor Jennifer Hudson."

It's pretty clear  

[JBC3]

GreeneStreet said: "Is your source the person on Talkin Broadway who says its gonna be Patti and Hathaway this season? They also claimed its gonna be a limited engagement.

Also since I brought up Talkin Broadway that forum is so annoying to use, clicking on every response grinds my gears."

You can change the display mode so you do not have to do that.

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Maybe- maaaaaaybe- playwrights like Noël Coward and Oscar Wilder can live by smart and clever line readings, but George Furth ain't Wilde or Coward and his linseed to sound as real and natural as possible.

This is quite funny. Coward and Wilde are some of the greatest writers of the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries with works that continue to live on. Wilde's work in particular may have a heighten sense of language that leads you to believe it "maybe" needs line readings, but I don't understand your comment on Furth. None of his straight plays are particularly well-known or even widely produced, with his main work being his collaborations with Sondheim, i.e. Company and Merrily We Roll Along. I haven't read any of his plays, but Furth's work in The Act, Merrily, and most of all Company is the opposite of "real" or "natural" dialogue. I think it takes a very gifted actor to make the arch text of Company sound real. I haven't seen this production, but LuPone's concert performance (where she blew Harris out of the water in their scene together) shows that she is - like Stritch - uniquely positioned to give Joanne new life.

And this just a personal opinion, but give me Salome over the libretto of The Act any day.

[Mister Matt]

It's pretty clear  

In 2016, polls made it clear that Hillary would win.  I don't believe jack until it's official.

[Sondheimite]

Mister Matt said: "It's pretty clear

In 2016, polls made it clear that Hillary would win. I don't believe jack until it's official."

You don't have to believe it's 100% happening.

But the name myself and others are referring to on here is Hathaway.  

[Bwayfan292]

Hathaway made her Broadway debut in 2005 in Children and art.

[GreeneStreet]

Mister Matt said: "It's pretty clear

In 2016, polls made it clear that Hillary would win. I don't believe jack until it's official."

Its Hathaway.

[adamgreer]

The x factor in all of this is Mr. Brantley.  If he despises the production, his review could essentially put the kabosh on any talk of a transfer. 

Does anyone know when his review will get printed?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

adamgreer said: "The x factor in all of this is Mr. Brantley. If he despises the production, his review could essentially put the kabosh on any talk of a transfer.

Does anyone know when his review will get printed?"

There are a few high-profile openings in mid-late November, so maybe he would wait til then: Hadestown (11/13), the Pinter double-bill (11/15), Caroline or Change (11/29), Kit Harrington’s True West (12/4), plus the already-open Inheritance and Florian Zeller’s latest with Jonathan Pryce & Eileen Atkins. His last 3 UK reviewing trips look like they were in mid August, early July, and last November. 

[Scripps2]

The real transfer question here is neither Rosalie nor Patti but Johnny.

Having turned in great performances here, there and everywhere for the last few years, and with reviews like this, Mr Bailey presumably has the supporting-Olivier in the bag.

 

[Sondheimite]

From what I understand

(and I could be 100% wrong)

no one is on lock to transfer to Broadway except *maybe* LaLuPoneHerself