Roles you WISH people would play- Page 2
Roles you WISH people would play
#25re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 5:04pm
Sherie Rene Scott as The Witch in Into the Woods
Kate Shindle as Elphaba in Wicked
#26re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 5:06pm
"Kate Shindle as Elphaba in Wicked "
That would be amazing! :)
And Laura Bell can be Glinda again.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#27re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 5:43pm
Marin Mazzie as Sally in Follies
Norm Lewis as George in Sunday in the Park... (or Norm in anything!)
Nancy Anderson as Janet in Drowsy
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#28re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 6:01pm
Donna Murphy and Bernedette Peters as Ms. Lovett in Sweeney Todd
Kerry Bulter as Sandy or Frenchy in Grease
Kristen Chenoweth as Lizzy Curry in 110 in the Shade
Anti-Romanticist
Understudy Joined: 8/23/06
#29re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 6:07pm
"Norm Lewis as George in Sunday in the Park... (or Norm in anything!)"
I haven't heard any of SitP, but I can agree that Norm in anything would be fantastic! I'm not completely sure if he has the right range for the part of Chauvelin in The Scarlet Pimpernel, but I think he'd do a great cover of "Falcon in the Dive" or "Where's the Girl".
Bow before the cuteness of my cousin!!! ;]
jsg03jd
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/04
#30re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 6:08pmI always thought Cheyenne Jackson would make a good Chris in MISS SAIGON...
#32re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 6:30pm
Hmm, this sounds like fun; some of the roles for performers off the top of my head (not very creative but still fun to dream!)
*Julia Murney: Mama Rose Lee in Gypsy(when she get's a little older)
*Cheyenne Jackson: Gaston in B&B (I second that! He looks just like the character)
*Sutton Foster: Sally Bowles in Cabaret
*Jesse L. Martin: The Plant (LSOH), Memphis in The Life, and Curtis in Dreamgirls (this man needs to come back to Broadway)
*Kerry Butler: Susan/other female characters in tick, tick, boom! and Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q
*Kristen Bell: Maureen in RENT or Elle Woods in Legally Blonde
*Norbert Leo Butz: Rooster in Annie, Iago in Othello, Leo in Parade, and the Balladeer in Assassins
*Sherie Rene Scott: Miss Hannigan in Annie (what a cool combo that would be with NLB!), and Daisy in Side Show
*Adam Pascal: Freddie in Chess, Judas in JCS, and Burger in HAIR
*Mario Cantone: Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray
*Raul Esparza: Hamlet in...(get ready for it) Hamlet 
Your aspirations are your possibilities-Samuel Johnson (and a little help from nomdeplume)
Updated On: 8/13/07 at 06:30 PM
#33re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 6:38pmMario Cantone as Velma? Now that would be interesting to see...
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#34re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 7:12pm
I have some more:
-Carolee Carmello as Margaret Johnson in The Light in the Piazza
-Amy Spanger as Janet Van de Graaf in The Drowsy Chaperone
-Mandy Gonzalez as Eva Peron in Evita
-Kristin Chenoweth as Amalia Balash in She Loves Me
-Anne Hathaway as Louise in Gypsy
-Laura Bennti as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins
-Sutton Foster as Cathy in The Last Five Years
-Elena Shaddow as Julie Jordan in Carousel
-Rachel York as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes
-Nikki Renee Daniels as Dorothy in The Wiz
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#35re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 7:26pm
Kristen Chenoweth; Megan Mullally-Elle Woods
Annalise Van De Pol; Raven Symone- Mary Poppins
Rob Bartlett-Tevye
#36re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 7:47pm
Nathan Lane- The Wizard of Oz- Wicked
Anne Hathaway- Elphaba- Wicked OR Cathy- Last Five Years
Sherie Rene Scott- Ms.Lovett- Sweeney Todd
Anthony Rapp- Corny Collins- Hairspray
Norbert Leo Butz- Max- The Producers (that would have been SO cool)
#37re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 7:52pmOrfeh as Eva Perrone. 'Nuff said, she'd be brilliant.
"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell
#38re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 7:59pm
Even though they've both done the roles before, I'd love to see Laura Bell Bundy as June and Laura Benanti as Louise in the same production of GYPSY :)
Otherwise, I definitely second Christine Ebersole as Margaret in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Also, Erin Davie as Nessa Rose in WICKED
Patti LuPone as Carmen (the producer) in CURTAINS
Lauren Pritchard as Eponine in LES MISERABLES
My 2007/2008 Season:
Grey Gardens (7/5)
110 in the Shade (7/6)
Mary Poppins (7/7)
Xanadu (7/7)
Deuce (7/8)
Spamalot (7/8)
Jersey Boys (8/25)
The Year of Magical Thinking (8/25)
Mauritius (11/2)
Young Frankenstein (11/3)
Rock 'N' Roll (11/3)
Pygmalion (11/4)
Mauritius (11/10)
Mauritius (11/21) Mauritius (11/21)
Sunday in the Park with George (3/6)
South Pacific (3/7)
Gypsy (3/8)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (3/9)
#39re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:01pmWow, a lot of these are absolutely brilliant.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
mollyml05
Chorus Member Joined: 3/12/07
#40re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:03pmbrina-doll - Every time I watch the movie version of Rent and hear Adam Pascal sing the line "All your words are nice, Mimi," I think about how he would be an amazing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. I also think he would be good as Jesus in Godspell.
#41re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:04pm
Kristen Bell in pretty much anything, but I think she would make a great Audrey in Little Shop, Amber in Hairspray, or Holly in Wedding Singer.
And I sencond Anne Hathaway as Louise.
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
Sondheim_Geek
Broadway Star Joined: 2/20/07
#42re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:06pm
Phoebe Strole - Les Mis - Eponine
Raul Esparza - Rent - Roger
Kate Wetherhead - Company - Amy
lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#43re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:10pm
Rachel York as
Eva Peron
Elphaba
Anna in The King and I
Scarlet O'Hara in the upcoming Gone with the Wind in London
Something, anything, SOON!
lc
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#44re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:15pm
Wow, Donna Murphy would be FABULOUS as Mrs. Lovett.
I would kill to see it.
(I know this is probably stupid, but I'd love to hear Orfeh sing EVITA.)
Oh... HAHA. I just scrolled down and noticed someone mentioned that before. Not so inovative.
#45re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:26pm
Anne Hathaway as Amneris-AIDA (though she MUST play Louise in GYPSY)
Meryl Sreep as Cora Hoover-ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
Jane Krakowski as Nurse Apple-ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
Calista Flockhart as Harper-ANGELS IN AMERICA
Donna Murphy as Mother-RAGTIME (she workshopped the role)
Donna Murphy as Blanche-A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Jane Krakowski as Sally Bowles-CABARET
Toni Collette as Sally Bowles-CABARET
Chandra Wilson as Caroline Thibodeaux-CAROLINE OR CHANGE
Neil Patrick Harris as Lt.Cioffi-CURTAINS
Erin Davie as Anne-A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#46re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:28pmToni Collette would be incredible as Sally Bowles.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#47re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:32pmToni Collette was supposed to replace Natasha Richardson as Sally during the run of the Roundabout revival of "Cabaret," but Equity wouldn't grant her permission to come over for it.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#48re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:37pm
That sucks, I would love to see Ms. Collette's take on Sally.
Molly- I think it be really cool to see Adam as Judas, but I highly doubt he do it lol. It would be pretty sweet though!
Your aspirations are your possibilities-Samuel Johnson (and a little help from nomdeplume)
#49re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:37pm
I never got that. Didn't she end up on Broadway about a year after that anyways? Was that after her Oscar nomination?
I always thought she'd make a fierce Sally Bowles, after the WILD PARTY fiasco I doubt she'd be interested in being part of the proposed revival of the revival.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Anti-Romanticist
Understudy Joined: 8/23/06
#50re: Roles you WISH people would play
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:55pm
"Nathan Lane- The Wizard of Oz- Wicked
Anne Hathaway- Elphaba- Wicked OR Cathy- Last Five Years
Sherie Rene Scott- Ms.Lovett- Sweeney Todd"
I second these, for sure! There really are a lot of great casting ideas through out the whole thread.
I also have a new idea (although I don't know how accurate it is because I really haven't heard a lot of his singing)! Raymond McLeod sounds like a Mr. Rochester to me.
Bow before the cuteness of my cousin!!! ;]
