While 'Sweet Charity' isn't the BEST musical out there, Ms. Spears was LUCKY to even be mentioned as a potential STAR of any Broadway show...that show included. While I am overjoyed she is not going to be in the musical, does the act of Spears-Federline turning down Broadway make the Great White Way even more dead than people thought?
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
I bet if she had done it she would have made Donna Murphy's attendance record look like Harvey Fierstein's. Maybe that's cruel and preemptively (and, at this point, purely hypothetically) judgmental, but I doubt she would have the stamina or discipline for that many shows per week in a dance-heavy show.
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Really? Have you seen her concerts? Looked at her concert tour schedules? This would be a piece of cake for her, stamina-wise. No traveling, and much lighter dancing than she's used to.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Her website stated that she did not want to uproot her family to NY after having just bought her new home. She wants to do the family thing for now but was happy to have been approached.
Uh, you guys do realize that Broadway is still seen as a step down by a good portion of pop culture? There's a reason most "stars" who tread the boards either came from theater and never really stopped, or are second-rate and past-it TV or movie "personalities" who need any boost they can get. The latter group doesn't look at it as an honor; they look at it as a desperation move.
I find that amusing---there is nothing harder, or less compensated, than live theater. She's probably just afraid of flopping! (and a well-founded fear it is, too!)
But do you also know the motivations of people whom you've never met for drinking their orange juice? That's true clairvoyance, and it seems to run rampant here.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Wrong. Theater is viewed as an artistic Step-Up. Madonna, Julia Roberts, Anthony Banderas, Nicole Kidman, Puff Doody. None of them are second rate or past-it.