| a few actress I wonder about for Lovett at the time | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 11:29 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:18 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: has it been said why they didn't replace Lansbury with a name? - AlanScott 06:06 pm EST 12/19/22 | |
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| You know who I most wonder if they'd considered? Gwen Verdon. Not the greatest cockney accent but she certainly won a Tony doing one. And she was great at comedy, and relatively fresh off Chicago 3 years prior. Not a movie star or tv star name, but a Broadway legend, and of course knew Hal. I think Shirley MacClaine would have been a big hit if she would have done it and could have pulled it off. No idea if she has the accent ability, but she has the acting and singing ability. I can't imagine her in the role really, but that's why it's exciting to me. And I can imagine her being interested in a broadway success in a great role in a great musical at that time in her career. Glenn Close would have been recently famous as a film actress in 1981, and not only was a stage actress who could sing and wanted to do musicals, but had been in a Hal Prince show in the 70s (something called Love for Love)... and she'd just been Tony nominated for a musical in 1980! She's great with accents and I can absolutely see her being willing to step into a show like Sweeney Todd for a role like that. Meryl Streep would have been too young and busy... but that doesn't mean it couldn't have happened. And certainly a theater actress who can sing and would have been a big draw in 1981 already. And wasn't she officially interested in doing the role at some point, wasn't she attached as Lovett when Spielberg was going to do it, with Kevin Kline as Sweeney? Carol Kane I really would be curious about, if she could do the accent. Mary Tyler Moore is another one I wonder about. I don't know if her voice could handle it and I doubt she'd ever even consider it, but she did of course do a famous flop musical already. I also wonder if Goldie Hawn was ever in the conversation. (young for it but it's conceivable to have an under 40 Lovett, and not sure about her ability with accents) She wouldn't even have been available I'm sure, even if she wanted to, but who knows... maybe! Or Bette Midler. (also the accents issue -- also highly doubt she'd have committed at the time, but you never know when someone wants to return to the stage or earn some new kind of clout as an actor) I have to assume that Burnett, being a friend of both Hal and Steve (even also being thought of a cast for Follies in Concert in such a choice role 4 years later), and being such a big draw, that she was thought of and decided against by them or by her if offered. Julie Andrews is an obvious one to wonder about. Someone else wrote in this thread that she's not a fit for the role... says who. Who knows. I'm mainly interested in if they offered it to her. But I do very much doubt she'd have considered replacing anyone, let alone such a tough act to follow and with no eligibility for awards. Maybe Vanessa Redgrave got in the mix? Not a good enough singer, and I doubt she'd have replaced, but who knows. And I wonder if Petula Clark was thought of it would have put her name in the hat. And what I really would have loved... Judi Dench. Not by any means a star or name in movies or TV or America yet, but of course a very key relationship with Hal having created Sally in his production of Cabaret for the West End premiere. Millicent Martin, already an established Sondheim performer from Side By Side, would also have been a great choice is they'd been able to get her over... not to sell tickets though, of course. |
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