I've been on both a GREY'S ANATOMY and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC kick lately. Naturally this lead me to thinking; Sandra Oh would make a phenomenal Desiree Armfeldt. I can't see her headlining a Broadway revival, but I'd love to see her take on the role in a regional production.
I agree with everyone mentioned so far, with the exception of Katrina Lenk. Maybe when she's a little older. Don't agree at all re Rue McClanahan. My preference: Donna Murphy.
This is gonna sound like a weird answer, but someone who can't sing well, and will approach "the song" as a monologue, and not a soaring ballad. And someone who can pull off high comedy, but isn't too chilly.
So I don't really know, but Cate Blanchett is not a bad idea.
Jarethan said: "I agree with everyone mentioned so far, with the exception of Katrina Lenk. Maybe when she's a little older. Don't agree at all re Rue McClanahan. My preference: Donna Murphy."
I agree with you re Katrina Lenk; I love her,but I also think it might work better when she's a bit older. Donna Murphy is 59 or 60,and she can still pull it off. She and Katrina both look younger than they are,but I can visualize her in this.
Australian actor Nadine Garner was superb as Desiree in Melbourne Australia, it would be in one of my top ten live performances ever. Her Send in The Clowns was a masterclass in acting, joyous, heartbreaking, it was something special.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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For years, there were rumors that Desiree would be Emma Thompson's return to the stage. She's a bit old for the part now, but when she was the right age, she would have been perfect. She has the humor and the vulnerability needed for the part.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Would love there to be a reunion concert with Bernadette and Lansbury. But if we are talking strictly new: Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet or Donna Murphy.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Kristin Scott Thomas too! She was scheduled to play Disirée at Théâtre du Châtelet a few years ago but she had to withdraw due to an injury and was replaced by Greta Scacchi. Leslie Caron was a fine Madame A.