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| Posted by: flaguy 07:34 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Yeah, hopefully it will be better than ‘Sugar’ - jesse21 05:16 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| "I didn't think Elaine Joyce came within 1% of Marilyn as Sugar." Yeah, Joyce was just okay, as I recall. But she certainly couldn't have been their first choice for the role. Probably not even their second choice. Didn't they initially want Bernadette Peters, but she wasn't available? I believe she played this part later on the west coast somewhere, and I suspect she must've been wonderful as Sugar. |
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| re: SUGAR casting ... | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 05:15 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SUGAR casting ... - flaguy 07:34 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| I think they also thought about Goldie Hawn | |
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| re: SUGAR casting ... | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:09 pm EDT 05/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SUGAR casting ... - Pokernight 05:15 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
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| If I were casting it today, I would seriously look at casting a non-white actress as Sugar, just to help get as far away from Marilyn Monroe, who will never be bettered, as possible. I've done the show twice and the actresses in that role tend to do variations to greater or lesser degree on Monroe because you just hear her voice in the writing. And it's also a bit underwritten for what is supposed to be a third leading role, after the two men playing Joe and Jerry. A non-white actress would help the audience make the leap and not spend the evening comparing the performance they're seeing to a screen legend whose performance is readily available to be seen nowadays in ways that it wasn't back in the 1970's. I wonder what Nikki M. James or Phillipa Soo are up to these days? |
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