Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
#1Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 1:05pm
What roles will Donna Murphy get to knock out of the park on Tuesday nights only?
I was thinking maybe Desiree Armfeldt as the alternate for Emma Thompson
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BCfitasafiddle
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/20
#2Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 1:23pmPersonally, I hope Donna gets a star turn to herself next.
Broadway61004
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/11
#3Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 1:33pm
Definitely Beetlejuice, because it's totally still reopening. Well, maybe not now that TikTok is banned, but I'm sure it's coming back by 2021.
#4Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 1:38pm
Sort of an odd question. If we're going to come up with imaginary scenarios of Donna Murphy playing different roles, why limit her to an alternate position? Why not just dream cast her in the role and be done with it?
Now, if someone said "Emma Thompson is playing Desiree and she needs a high-profile alternate, who would you cast?" I would gladly say that Donna Murphy should do it. But if we're just imagining roles for Donna Murphy, there are none that would be better-served by only 1 performance a week vs. 8.
Unless you're just joking, in which case, your timing is off the mark by a couple of years :)
#5Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 1:51pmMadame Giry
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DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#6Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 2:00pmTevye
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#7Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 2:07pmNow forgive my ignorance. After all I did only “discover” the talent of Donna Murphy at the Sondheim 90 celebration. But does she not have two tonys and quite the resume? Could she not have a little more than Tuesday night... like maybe even a Sunday matinee or two?
thedrybandit
Leading Actor Joined: 12/10/18
#8Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 2:13pm
No, you can't do more than Tuesday nights until you have at least three Tonys.
carnzee
Broadway Star Joined: 9/2/11
#9Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 2:16pmLisa Rinna
fosterfan2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/11
#10Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 3:08pmBCfitasafiddle said: "Personally, I hope Donna gets a star turn to herself next."
Exactly. She's so forking talented she deserves it.
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#11Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 3:28pm
I think we can all agree Donna is beyond talented and perfectly capable of carrying just about any role full time.
I'm not sure if she'd ever do that again just so she's not pigeon holed into being a stand by, but I'd love if Broadway did this more so we get to see BRILLIANT actors play iconic roles in major big budget productions that it's very unlikely they'd get the opportunity to play otherwise. Mary Testa has an incredible Mama Rose in her but I don't see any scenario where a producer is going to spend millions on it the way they would with if say, Meryl Streep wanted to do it. This way Meryl gets another night off and we fans get to see Mary (or Donna, or Tonya Pinkens, or Alice Ripley, etc) in the role.
I think Donna would be an amazing Vera Charles to a big star's Mame and also maybe play Mame on Tuesdays.
rougeduck
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/07
#12Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/18/20 at 5:55pm
^ Donna Murphy would be a marvelous Alternate Vera Charles to Toni Collette.
Imagine Donna SLAYING Arkadina on the Tuesdays and matinees Tracee Ellis Ross is out!
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#13Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/19/20 at 12:42am
DAME said: "Tevye"
sign me tf up
#14Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/19/20 at 6:03am
Donna Murphy can play Marin Mazzie playing Helen Sinclair:
"I ain't gonna play no second fiddle,
'Cause I'm used to playin' lead."
"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
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#15Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/19/20 at 8:28am
fosterfan2 said: "BCfitasafiddle said: "Personally, I hope Donna gets a star turn to herself next." Exactly. She's so forking talented she deserves it."
Per Donna herself, she has stated she ONLY took the HELLO, DOLLY! offer as it was only one-night and with the occasional extended performances when Bette was on vacation. Otherwise, she would have not accepted. She’s a single-mom (widowed) with a young daughter and doing a full Broadway schedule is not on her list of projects for some time. She does continue doing TV and film projects as they are only a day or two of work, but Broadway will have to wait a while.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/19/20 at 2:56pmQuite frankly, I'm still living in the dream that Scott Rudin will open HELLO, DOLLY! at the St James Theater as the first re-opened show after the pandemic. I'd be very happy if Donna Murphy was the star.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#17Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/19/20 at 2:58pmI wonder what a Donna Murphy-Norma Desmond would be like.
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#18Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/19/20 at 4:11pm
jacobsnchz14 said: "I wonder what a Donna Murphy-Norma Desmond would be like."
Didn't she do a couple of readings of it for Roundabout before Glenn Close decided to do it in London then bring that over?
#19Roles Donna Murphy can play on Tuesday nights as the alternate
Posted: 9/19/20 at 6:37pm
jacobsnchz14 said: "I wonder what a Donna Murphy-Norma Desmond would be like. "
Probably amazing
