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Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#0Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 7:47pm
From her web site:
Diana has been offered a role of Penny Pingleton in Hairspray on Broadway. The play starts in February. (This is still subject to change). After that Diana may join the tour company of a different play. Diana will continue to work on her album. (No release date or further information is available at this time.) A tour for the album is still in the works as well.
http://www.dianad.com
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Updated On: 12/30/05 at 07:47 PM
#1re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 7:50pmHow odd! So I went to her site and looked and didn't see that anywhere. Do you have a link? Makes no sense to me--she doesn't fit that role AT ALL in my mind.
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BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#2re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 7:52pmYes, one has been added.
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#3re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 7:54pm
Oh okay--thanks. That's her fan site, not HER site. I guess I'll believe it when I see it. Just can't imagine her as Penny....
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
Updated On: 12/30/05 at 07:54 PM
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#4re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 7:54pm
is this deinite, or just one of those rumors? i saw the site, and it just doesnt look like she actually runs it, or anything
i dunno
#5re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 8:02pm
oh gawd, if that happens, my heart goes out to Hairspray in NYC 
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#6re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 8:10pmYeah, I can't really picture her as Penny. But, good for her!
mad4music
Stand-by Joined: 7/2/05
#7re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 8:20pm
Cool! I hope its true. I've heard her live and she is great on stage.
I must say that Diana the popstar going to Broadway is far better than past potentially disastourous attempts at pop-gone-broadway girls (ahem-spitney beers!)
Atleast NY found someone with talent!
I still think there is a place for Clay Aiken on Broadway too. lol 
but thats just me!
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#8re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 10:15pmwouldn't she make a better tracy?
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#9re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 10:21pmI would prefer to have her sweeping the stage after performances, but yes, she is much better suited for Tracy...
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#10re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 10:53pm
Penny?! i can't picture her being Penny Pingeltin (sp?)
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You just wanna lay down and cry
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Why can't you stay 29
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broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#11re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 10:55pmhmm...this should be interesting, i just dont like american idol people going into Broadway shows, but this could be interesting
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 11:01pmI think she's a little too slim for Tracy now and I've never been a fan of actresses wearing fat suits for the role. Regardless, good for Diana. It looks like her well-received performance in WSS (I expected her to be disastrous but she was actually, gasp!, very good) has led to more work in musicals. Good for her!
FrancisGumm
Broadway Star Joined: 2/8/04
#13re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 11:05pmyea i was going to bring up the west side story thing. everyone was very skeptical and she was apparently very good. SO even though i also dont really "see" her as Penny, stephaniethestar and everyone really, should give her and anyone for that matter a chance before judging.
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#14re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/30/05 at 11:07pmYeah, sorry, but her version of "someone to watch over me" from AI was enough to rip out my eardrums..but yes, I'll stop being so judgmental :)
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#15re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 12:11ami like diana but LOVE tracy miller as penny
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
#16re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 12:14am
Yes, she'll be playing Penny opposite Kelli Osbourne's Tracy...
Remember that persistent rumor?? Let's not get all jumpy about this just yet.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#17re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 12:26amKuhnKrazy- that may be but based off american idol she's a little too ummm filled out to play penny. And that is the nicest way to put that
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#18re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 12:50am
"The play starts in February."
Yeah, sounds like a VERY reliable source. Play? What play? I know of a musical that started on Broadway a few years ago, but play? Sounds like a 9 year old wrote that.
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#19re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 12:54ami would say maybe penny in vegas, because that starts in febuary but they already cast penny for that production.
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#20re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 12:55amDiana had a few shining moments on American Idol a few years back, but I don't see her as Penny either. I think she would make a better Tracy.
#21re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 12:58amOUCH! (giggle)
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#22re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 1:09amFolks, this looks like a pretty reliable fansite...and it only says she was offered the role. This doesn't mean she is taking it.
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#23re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 1:10amWhat makes a fansite "look" reliable?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
ABoyLikeThat
Featured Actor Joined: 8/13/05
#24re: Diana DeGarmo offered role in Hairspray...
Posted: 12/31/05 at 2:44am
If you check it out further, you can see that it's Diana's fan club website and that her and her mom/manager are affiliated with the site. The information posted there is definitely true since it would have come from either her manager or her agent. It only says that she's been offered the role, not that she's going to necessarily accept it. Having said that, she'd be great as Penny. Remember that she apparently did well with West Side Story so I wouldn't be surprised if she did well in this role. She'd be great as Tracy too but she's much too thin for that role. Here's a really recent pic from a USO tour she's on in the Middle East.
