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.
I would seriously love for Loretta Ables Sayre to play Bloody Mary in the movie. I know I've said it several times here, but she was my absolute favorite person in this production.
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
I agree with givesmevoice on that one. She has been the BEST bloody mary I have ever seen in that role. I've always thought that role was annoying, but I actually enjoy watching her in it.
Anyway, I would love Brian Stokes Mitchell to come into it again, but unfortunately it wouldn't make a lot of sense for Nellie to fall in love with an African American but falls out of love for discriminating against his children for being the same thing.
Luther Billis...hmm...maybe Sean Penn?
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
Someone mentioned Jack Black as Billis in the other thread as a joke. But, I could actually see that working.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Definitely Scarlett Johansson as Nellie, I'd love to see what she can do with the 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"
Wouldn't be shocked if Anne Hathaway tried to get involved. I know she wants to do a musical and she is a soprano so she could pull Nellie off voice wise.
Baldwin as Billis would be hilarious to see on screen. Then again, I doubt anyone could be as good as Matthew Salvidar was.
Why Bother...make something that has not been made 2x and with a concert also..Hollywood has no imagination And the Glenn Close version was AWFUL..Harry Connick destroyed the music ...so sad.. not as bad as Mathew Broderick Music Man but pretty bad!
How important do people feel that having Emile sing in an operatic or opera-esque style is? Is it something that could be changed and not hurt the piece?
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
Anne Hathaway is NOT Nellie. She always has a quirky side in whatever she does and that wouldn't work for Nellie. Oh and I don't think she has the voice for Nellie.
Reese or Scarlett would be great
...everyone was doing the mambo and drinking golden cadillacs...
I think Reese is probably the best choice as far as box office, being right for the role, and talent goes. I don't really see Anne in the role, either, but I think you'd be reaching to say that Reese Or Scarlett's voice is as good, or better than hers.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
Anne claims she is a operatic soprano so I am not sure seeing as I have never heard her use her higher register. Everytime she sings, she sings mid range. But she talks about singing arias in interviews or whatever.
And she was apparently offered Christine in Phantom but had to turn it down for Princess Diaries 2. Or that is her story. I am not a huge fan of her myself since she always puts me off in interviews. But she always talks about wanting to do a musical.
I think Reese is very much the country girl Nellie is but I do not know if she has a good higher register. I also thought she said after Walk The Line she did not want to sing again.
Not saying you're wrong, but where did she claim that she was an operatic soprano? I've never heard that before.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
Amy Adams is definitely the best suggestion so far. She absolutely owns the sweet naive ingenue character, and her voice is really great. Scarlett's voice is definitely not right for this; it's very gravelly and breathy.