Day to Succeed Morton in OSAGE COUNTY?
Day to Succeed Morton in OSAGE COUNTY?
#1Day to Succeed Morton in OSAGE COUNTY?
Posted: 8/7/08 at 6:28pm
Word over on ATC is that Johanna Day, Tony nominated in 2001 for her turn as Claire in David Auburn's PROOF, will succeed Amy Morton as Barbara Fordham in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY in "mid to late October."
Though I was hoping for Laurie Metcalf, Day is certainly a wonderful actress who should bring a lot to the role.
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.
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Posted: 8/7/08 at 9:28pmbump.
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.
#2re: Day to Succeed Morton in OSAGE COUNTY?
Posted: 8/8/08 at 3:08pmMetcalf would have been great, but I was hoping for Kristen Johnston.
"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"
Ftworthguy
Featured Actor Joined: 6/5/07
#3re: Day to Succeed Morton in OSAGE COUNTY?
Posted: 8/8/08 at 3:50pmA Metcalf/Parsons pairing would have been ELECTRIC!!!!
MungoGypsy8232
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/07
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Posted: 8/8/08 at 5:29pmI was hoping for Laurie too, but oh well. Was Kirsten Johnston up for the part ray-andallthatjazz86, or was that simply wishful thinking?
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
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Posted: 8/8/08 at 11:13pm
oh my god I hope this happens!!
Have you all seen Day? She's really impressed me in everything I've seen her in (Proof, Peter & Jerry, Almost and Evening) She'll be wonderful in the role. A perfect match for Estelle. Still, I would have LOVED to have seen Elizabeth Marvel tackle Barbara. Now THAT really would be a battle of the titans
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
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Posted: 8/9/08 at 3:17pmMungo, I have no idea whether Johnston was up for the part or not, it was just wishful thinking on my part.
"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"
Belleof14thStreet
Chorus Member Joined: 5/31/07
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Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:20amI could not agree MORE that Elizabeth Marvel would have torn up that stage as Barbara!!! I would also have loved to have seen Elizabeth Marvel and Amy Morton go head to head as the sisters in Top Girls - can you even imagine?!?
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Posted: 8/13/08 at 1:55pm
Saw this show last Saturday and it was WONDERFUL!
Good for Johanna Day if this is true.
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
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Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:51amSaw the show this afternoon. The whole cast was simply miraculous, but Parsons and especially Morton were FIERCE.
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