Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
#1Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 12:42pmA little birdie told me this and I hope it's true! (If it's not, don't kill me) lol
#2Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 12:56pm
I hope so too. 
Anyone BUT Harriet Harris, please!!!
#2Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 1:30pm
Please let this be true.
Any word on Hapgood? Brian Stokes Mitchell would be an exquisite choice.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#3Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 4:39pm
I will DIE and watch from HEAVEN if this happens. Since she recently sang an ACW song at the Lansbury benefit and has has encores! ties in the past, it doesn't sound unbelievable. (Though I hope the rumours aren't just speculatiokn about these things).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 6:08pm
>>>"I will DIE and watch from HEAVEN if this happens."<<<
Be careful what you wish for.
Besides, aren't you being a bit presumptuous to think you're virtuous enough to get through the Pearly Gates?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 6:23pmDolly, what happened to your Channing photo?
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 8:15pm
I honestly don't know what happened to my avatar. The Channing photo just disappeared.
I've had some work done on my computer. Maybe that's the reason. Dunno.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#7Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 9:41pmI thought for a moment that you were having 2 nd thoughts about Dolly Dolly.
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alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#8Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 10:19pmDonna Murphy is not a name that will sell tickets.
#9Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 10:24pm
It's 5 performances, not a full run. I don't think they need a huge name.
The FOLLIES concert had no huge names, and all 6 (one added) performances were sold out. At the performance I attended, someone was outside with a sign begging for a ticket.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 10:25pmAnd even if it was, what producer would put that name above the title?
#11Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 10:37pmWell gee, Sutton Foster can't exactly sell out a show with her name and she's already above the title advertising the show.
#12Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/20/10 at 10:57pmDonna Murphy was not at the top of my list, but the more I've thought about it, the more amazing I think it would be. The woman is a goddess.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
ZiggyCringe
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/05
#13Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/21/10 at 2:25am
Lord, I hope so.
Murphy is PERFECT for the mayoress. Her performance at the Lansbury tribute was amazing.
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#14Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/21/10 at 6:53amDo you think she'll turn up for five performances? (Sorry, it was just too good an opportunity).
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#15Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/21/10 at 9:01amBoy that has gotten so old.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#16Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/21/10 at 10:01amWill she be playing the rock?
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#17Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/21/10 at 7:33pm
Alterego, I say this with love...
Please, get some new material!
Donna Murphy would be a very good choice for Cora. Her previous work in Encores! productions has been excellent.
Now, who do they get for Hapgood?
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#18Rumor Mill: Donna Murphy in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE?
Posted: 2/21/10 at 7:59pmMurphy was my second choice behind Meryl Streep (whom I never realistically thought they'd get but who really would be the perfect choice for the part, IMO). Donna Murphy is a brilliant, dedicated actress whose work is always top notch. She turned in a Tony-worthy performance in FOLLIES, she really gets Sondheim's work and he loves working with her. It'd be wonderful if she actually ended up playing the part. You bet I'll make my way to the city if this indeed happens. What a difference from Harriet Harris who would have been one of the most lackluster options they could have found for such a magnificent, fun role.
"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"
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