If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
#1If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:32pmWho could you picture playing Fanny?
#2re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:34pmLeslie Kritzer
"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)
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:35pm
I wouldn't kick Leslie Kritzer out of bed...I mean out of a Funny Girl revival.
They're never going to revive it, though - Streisand owns that role so completely.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#3re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:36pmHarvey Fierstein.
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#4re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:38pm
PiraguaGuy, we get it. You're straight.
Maybe you should put it in your signature so you wouldn't need to keep reminding everyone all the time.
"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)
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#5re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:40pm
You gays are allowed to salivate whenever anyone brings up Cheyenne Jackson or Nick Adams...do I smell discrimination?
=)
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#6re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:41pmI would love a revival of this show!
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
#7re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:44pmIm still banking on you "discovering" yourself in College... that's what ALWAYS happens.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:47pm
You have to cast a Jewish girl as Fanny, otherwise you have to change the title to FUNNY GOY.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 2/27/09 at 09:47 PM
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#9re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:49pmStephanie J. Block.
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#10re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:51pm
Stephanie J. Block.
I love Stephanie to death and have suggested her for many ridiculous roles, but...no. Under no circumstances.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 9:58pmCorine
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#13re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 10:04pm
Leslie Kritzer.
Stephanie J. Block wouldn't be believable as Fanny Brice simply because she lacks the "it" factor required to carry the show. She can do it in regional theatre, but she would just not work for Broadway.
"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"
#14re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 10:05pmDame Edna
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
#16re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 10:22pm
My first choice is Ana Gasteyer, and I don't care if she's too old. However, if Nicole Parker continues to improve as the comments on this board indicate, I could see her as Fanny.
Kritzer played Fanny at the Papermill, so I wouldn't want to see her take on the role again (although she was good).
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#17re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/27/09 at 10:23pm
Mimi Hines
I'm not sure if she is Jewish,
but she kicked Ass in the part and kept it running on Broadway.
Streisand may have "owned" it,
but Mimi proved she could Rent it to the Max!
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#18re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/28/09 at 12:57amIs Nicole Jewish (not that that's a requirement, just curious)? I'd love to see Ana first--age isn't important. From watching the concert of Funny Girl, she has INCREDIBLE stage presence. You Are Woman, I Am Man, which usually seems pretty boring to me, was exciting because of her! I'd love to see Leslie do it, but Ana is a much bigger name. She'd be wonderful!
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
#19re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/28/09 at 1:00amThe poor dead horse we keep beating as we discuss this futile revival? I really think it's his time to shine!
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
fachedaluna
Stand-by Joined: 3/12/06
#20re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/28/09 at 1:17amStephanie J Block has done this role several times. She is marvelous as Fanny. She can make you cry, laugh and want to be her friend all at the same time. She is one of the best woman actors to handle a role of this magnitude. She has the pipes and acting skills to compete with Streisand (at least for this millennium). She has said in past interviews . . . she would love to do this role!
Gene Kelly Jr.
Chorus Member Joined: 11/25/08
#21re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/28/09 at 1:30amI sort of want to hear Leigh Ann Larkin sing the songs. I am unsure of how confident I am in this but I just think she is killer. Maybe it is because I am going through serious Gypsy withdrawal.
#22re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/28/09 at 6:43amI am having trouble picturing anyone besides Streisand. I am in love with her (not creepy) But I also love the show.
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#23re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/28/09 at 8:34amStephenie J Block would be great and maybe even possibility Idina Menzel
#24re: If Funny Girl Came Back To Broadway...?
Posted: 2/28/09 at 9:01am
"maybe even possibility Idina Menzel"
No, did you see her perform "Don't Rain on My Parade" at the Kennedy Honors thing? It was not good.
