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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#1
Posted: 8/2/20 at 12:51pm

I dream of her playing Margaret in The Light in the Piazza. Just a little fantasy of mine. What other roles do you want her to play? What could possibly be next for her once Broadway is open and back to normal?

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#2
Posted: 8/2/20 at 1:06pm
Rose, Mrs. Lovett, Dolly Levi, The Witch, so many. But I also randomly imagined her in Victor/Victoria a while ago and now I can’t get it out of my mind.
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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#3
Posted: 8/2/20 at 1:59pm
Yes absolutely, Piazza with Denée Benton as Clara
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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#4
Posted: 8/2/20 at 2:48pm
I would love to see her as the Witch in ITW. Also as any of the adult female characters in Once on this Island.
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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#5
Posted: 8/2/20 at 2:51pm

She should of been one of the Dolly, too bad production had that producer

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#6
Posted: 8/2/20 at 3:20pm

They should have let her be Cinderella in Into the Woods once upon a time.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#7
Posted: 8/2/20 at 3:48pm
Hanna in The Merry Widow
Desiree in A Little Night Music
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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#8
Posted: 8/2/20 at 4:13pm
Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. With her pipes and radiant beauty, I’d love to see her in those costumes. She could’ve replaced Glenn Close in the revival.
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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#9
Posted: 8/2/20 at 4:38pm
I really wish we could have seen a young Audra play Eliza in Hamilton.

Or Eliza in My Fair Lady, come to think of it.
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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#10
Posted: 8/3/20 at 3:22am

Enough with revivals; she should do a new play.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#11
Posted: 8/3/20 at 7:29am

I'd love to see her play Helen in an all Black production of Fun Home with Cynthia Erivo as Alison that's never going to happen - I'd be happy with her singing "Days and Days" in concert, though.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#12
Posted: 8/3/20 at 8:08am

Sally in Follies

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#13
Posted: 8/3/20 at 11:47am

A Director said: "Enough with revivals; she should do a new play."

 

I'd love to see her in a new play too! But given that this is a dreamcasting thread, we can't very well dreamcast her in something that doesn't exist. 

 

Sally in "Follies," and Helen in "Fun Home" are my 2 favorite ideas mentioned in this thread so far! 

I'd also love to see her do some more Shakespeare: maybe Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Queen Margaret in "Henry VI," Beatrice in "Much Ado." 

As for other classic roles: Mary Tyrone, Linda Loman, Amanda Wingfield - any and all of those great roles. We almost had her as Blanche Dubois! So disappointing! Hope it still ends up happening after COVID.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#14
Posted: 8/3/20 at 11:51am

I really was rooting for her to play Marian in the Sound of Music - but the Sutton Foster announcement killed that dream...

Too bad - while I like Sutton - I think Audra and Hugh Jackman would have made a fantastic pair.  Still haven't heard any evidence of Sutton's actual soprano voice - but I'm withholding judgement until I see them in November 2021.  But Audra would have killed that role.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#15
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:35pm

Missy in "Purlie". I think she would sing the hell out of "Down Home" and "He Ca Do It".

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#16
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:39pm

Any role honestly. As long as I can hear her gorgeous voice, it doesn't really matter to me. 

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#17
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:41pm

For plays... I'd love to see her do August Osage County. Doesn't even matter which part, I think she'd kill both female leads when she's age appropriate for them.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#18
Posted: 8/3/20 at 2:09pm

She has always said she wants to play Sweeney Todd. I agree.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#19
Posted: 8/10/20 at 6:59am

Damiensta said: "She should of been one of the Dolly, too bad production had that producer"

They suggested varies replacements but Jerry Herman had approval and he wouldn’t agree to any of the names.

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Wishful Thinking- What Role Do You Want Audra To Play?#20
Posted: 8/10/20 at 8:34am

Loopin’theloop said: "Damiensta said: "She should of been one of the Dolly, too bad production had that producer"

They suggested varies replacements but Jerry Herman hadapproval and he wouldn’t agree to any of the names."

Not that I think Audra would have been a 3rd replacement but are you saying that Jerry Herman would have vetoed Audra?



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