| AlanScott: do you know any more casting ideas for the London production? | |
| Posted by: portenopete 05:34 pm EDT 06/30/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Any memories of Jean Simmons in A Little Night Music? - AlanScott 02:22 pm EDT 06/30/20 | |
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| There must have been a lot of actresses who would have been interested. Both Judi Dench and Maggie Smith were 40, which is old enough to play Desirée (I feel). And can you answer a question about the eventual NT Dench production in 1995 (?): was Ian McKellan not announced as Frederick? I seem to remember when buying my ticket expecting to see him, but by the time rehearsals got started it was Laurence Guittard (who was very good, I thought, and fun to see as Frederick after years of listening to his Carl-Magnus on the recording). Sîan Phillips was a very good Madame Armfeldt but of course seemed the same age as her daughter (she had played Desirée herself only a year or two earlier in Chichester, I think). I don't know who else would have played it. Ten years earlier Peggy Ashcroft might have done it, but she was dead by 1995. Pat Routledge is also not much older than Dench and act the height of her fame in 1995, but fitming Keeping Up Appearances might have prevented her. |
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