Dark Days Ahead

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 11:30am

Of course, it doesn't mention if she was actually offered the role.....

I'm sure voiceanth with grace us with a kagillion posts regarding every step of the project and advance ticket sales. Ick!
The Next Eliza

[Jack42]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 11:36am

I might have to eat my words, but I firmly believe

THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

[Belasco07]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 11:37am

Well, we'll see how Drew, Scary and Puffy fare out...I'll dare them to bring Brit to Bway.

[lvpblues]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 11:47am

God forbid. I'm sorry. Britney cannot act. She cannot sing. She can dance, but that's about it. She should leave this one to the professionals. This seems like a horrible rumor, which it most likely is.

~K

[Lorelai]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 11:49am

(sees article)

oh god, make it go away!!!!!

[Ruffian]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:09pm

gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag gag

[WVRevy]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:13pm

That was my thought....I haven't actually SEEN her act (do pepsi commercials count ?), but I am not even a LITTLE impressed with her singing. On Broadway she wouldn't have the benefit of a full mixing board to make her sound better

Hmmm....That gives me an idea for a new thread...

[beacon1]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:15pm

This is all a cruel, cruel joke isn't it???

How can her handlers encourage this with a straight face.

And, speaking of keeping a straight face--who on earth would be the poor guy to play Professor Henry Higgins. Anyone into career suicide these days?

[WVRevy]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:17pm

Hey, they could get just about anybody to do it...After all, they're going to look like a superstar after singing beside of her for a couple hours...lol

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:18pm

Ricky Martin as Higgins and Justin Timberlake as Freddy would round out the casting nicely.

Updated On: 3/24/04 at 12:18 PM

[Ruffian]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:19pm

lmfaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (gagging continues)

[shira467]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:22pm

Please please PLEASE tell me that's a joke. Britney on broadway. But hey, maybe she'll lip-synch and have someone with broadway vocal talent do her singing? As for the acting, well, we're screwed. But I have to hand it to her, she can dance.
But any way, I think this rumor gives a really scary realization to what is already happening to Broadway. It is becoming the place where so-so actors come to prove that they are really good, when often they are not. There are some exceptions, like Hugh Jackman, but really, Brooke Shields in Cabaret (when I saw it)?? It's gonna be a sad world for the next generation of Broadway.

[beacon1]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:35pm

LOL Mister Matt LOL

Can't you just imagine what the audience would be like? The teenage girls screaming through "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (she bangs! she bangs!)"

[WVRevy]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 12:38pm

ack....just had a "William Hung" flashback...lol

[ckeaton]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 1:09pm

This does put new perspective on the staging of Eliza's bath.
Bubbles...mmmm...
Does pygmalion or the book of the musical ever specify that Eliza be a brunette?

[kertrats]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 1:20pm

Couldn't agree more - gagging at the thought of Brit on Broadway - but have to say this is one of the funniest threads I've read all day! BIG belly laughs out loud!!! Ok - so now people in my office are staring and asking questions . . . This is right up there with the thread about hot chorus boys!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 1:24pm

"The pop star would have to work with a dialect coach to get rid of her Southern accent and replace it with a cockney one, then learn to speak upper class English."

Among a phalanx of coaches.

Posted: 3/24/04 at 1:29pm

MATT, you BEAT ME TO IT!! DAMNIT!

Britney is MY area, Matt...OKKKKKKK???!!

I don't post any Karen Ziemba stories (as if there are any)!

OKKKKKKKK!!!

If J-Lo decides to revive Prettybelle, It's all mine!!!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 1:37pm

I think I finally get it. Anthony, trained operaine that she is, considers his fixations on fairly middle of the road pop phenomena to be his sorta down 'n' dirty "slumming" experience. But, instead of championing anything that actually has any grit, he goes for Your Mother's Favorites: The Next Generation every time. "Whitney's medly of blah blah blah...." When anybody points this out, he comes back with his highly edumicated opinions about voices of generations and tosses in his trained technical lingo. This way he can have it both ways. Please, Anthony, go punk rock.

Posted: 3/24/04 at 1:41pm

But I LOVE it both ways!

Which I'm sure you would as well if you..oh..never mind!(giggle)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 3:44pm

MUUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Gotcha Voiceanth! A popstar thread sans accolades and tour schedules. You snooze, you lose. What took you so long, anyway? Too much Madonna research? Since it involves musical theatre, it is most certainly a fair post. If it was about her swollen ankle or whatever, I wouldn't have touched it. If J-Lo revives Prettybelle, it's her own damn fault. Might as well call it Gigli 2.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 3:56pm

"I don't post any Karen Ziemba stories (as if there are any)!"

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! Line of the day!

I want to see this just so I can see the streets littered with broken chorines, stumbling about strung out and hung over muttering 'why wasn't it me, god, why wasn't it me?' And god will look at them and say 'who are you again?'

[robbiej]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 5:24pm

Somewhere, someone is placing a call to Marni Nixon.

Good to know the old broad can still get work!

PS...I, for one, always thought that in a few years, Britney would make a wonderful Queenie in the HBO Films adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's THE WILD PARTY.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 5:36pm

Ozzy Osbourne as Higgins!

Updated On: 3/24/04 at 05:36 PM

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 3/24/04 at 5:45pm

the link didnt work for me for some reason, so i take that as a sign that it is all a joke. (please, dear god, let it be a joke)