4,968 posts
|
Post by TallPaul on Nov 18, 2021 16:32:14 GMT
If she could also read from a card, she'd be a quadruple threat...and a quintuple if she could remember her own niece's name! 🙂
|
|
18,850 posts
|
Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 18, 2021 16:58:05 GMT
Oh I see we’re piling in on Bonnie now are we? 😡
|
|
7,540 posts
|
Post by alece10 on Nov 18, 2021 17:14:25 GMT
If she could also read from a card, she'd be a quadruple threat...and a quintuple if she could remember her own niece's name! 🙂 RUDE!
|
|
2,793 posts
|
Post by ceebee on Nov 18, 2021 19:43:20 GMT
Biggins.
|
|
1,431 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by showtoones on Nov 18, 2021 20:00:39 GMT
Everyone is forgetting the obvious choice....Amanda Holden! ;-)
|
|
18,850 posts
|
Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 18, 2021 20:02:31 GMT
Oh my word… imagine it.
|
|
1,431 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by showtoones on Nov 19, 2021 6:22:47 GMT
She did tap in Millie…and she’s a name in certain circles…haha
|
|
|
Post by danb on Nov 19, 2021 6:47:57 GMT
Let’s not and say we did.
|
|
|
Post by craig on Nov 19, 2021 12:19:13 GMT
Everyone is forgetting the obvious choice....Amanda Holden! ;-) She has form for desecrating roles Sutton has played sooooooo...
|
|
4,483 posts
|
Post by Being Alive on Nov 19, 2021 14:37:13 GMT
Her career in musicals has essentially been copying Sutton so let's stop this right now in case anyone hears us x
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2021 23:47:53 GMT
Do we know what Jane McDonald is doing next summer?
|
|
1,431 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by showtoones on Nov 20, 2021 5:07:17 GMT
Do we know what Jane McDonald is doing next summer? Or Sheridan?
|
|
|
Post by inthenose on Nov 20, 2021 21:48:29 GMT
Do we know what Jane McDonald is doing next summer? Or Sheridan? Sheridan could actually do it... I think she'd be rather good. True, there's a lot of people I'd rather see, but it isn't an absurd idea by any means. I'd perhaps be concerned about the quality of her tap dancing... with that in mind, Wayne Sleep?
|
|
|
Post by danb on Nov 20, 2021 21:52:55 GMT
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
|
|
4,483 posts
|
Post by Being Alive on Nov 20, 2021 21:54:36 GMT
...Sheridan couldn't dance this, and she couldn't sing it either...she'd be funny but I can't see her managing any other aspect?
|
|
|
Post by inthenose on Nov 20, 2021 22:01:53 GMT
She could sing it just fine, and it's a big cheesy, hammy character part anyway. I wouldn't cast her in it and she wouldn't be a patch on Sutton Foster, but she could play the part just fine. Sheridan is a pretty solid dancer incidentally, I'm not sure where this myth about her practically having two left feet even came from. I just wouldn't want her front and centre carrying two big tap dance production numbers. It's not going to happen anyway, so relax.
|
|
5,295 posts
|
Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 20, 2021 22:55:32 GMT
Was waiting for Sheridans name to come up.
What a sad state of affairs when we have so few leading ladies to choose from, and some- like her- mediocre when it comes to singing and dancing.
Just waiting for someone to say Jenna Russell or Kerry Ellis.
|
|
490 posts
|
Post by WireHangers on Nov 20, 2021 23:08:36 GMT
I saw Caroline O’Connor in the Australian tour and she was absolutely fab, she had a real youthfulness to her performance. She did read a bit too old then so I think she’d look even older now.
|
|
|
Post by sph on Nov 20, 2021 23:13:57 GMT
I think Sheridan Smith would actually be a good Reno Sweeney, just not in this particular production.
Back when Patti Lupone and Elaine Paige did it, the structure was to generally dance a few steps, dance off to the side and let the ensemble take over. This is a production built for a full triple-threat.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2021 13:04:51 GMT
Bonnie Langford?
|
|
5,295 posts
|
Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 21, 2021 13:40:14 GMT
Bonnie would absolutely kill this role and I would be there for it 100%
|
|
1,431 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by showtoones on Nov 21, 2021 20:09:13 GMT
Bonnie would absolutely kill this role and I would be there for it 100% Bonnie would be great and I always imagined Reno to be a bit older anyway...They would just have to cast a Billy that is around her age. She would dance the s%*T out if it too!
|
|
4,483 posts
|
Post by Being Alive on Nov 21, 2021 20:40:50 GMT
Bonnie was sort of the only British person I could think of that could do the show in its current form well
|
|
7,540 posts
|
Post by alece10 on Nov 21, 2021 21:01:51 GMT
Plus she is a household name as well as a MT legend. I think we should contact the producers and tell them who we want. We could spare them a lot of effort.
|
|
490 posts
|
Post by WireHangers on Nov 22, 2021 0:34:01 GMT
Do we know what Jane McDonald is doing next summer? I’d actually watch Jane McDonald if she toured in the show!
|
|
172 posts
|
Post by justsaying113 on Nov 22, 2021 10:55:59 GMT
Fully agree with Barnaby (and others) - would love to see Bonnie in such an iconic role. And I guess/hope she'd still have box office appeal. As for an American, oh yes, Jane Krakowksi but can't see her coming over for this sadly.
|
|
18,850 posts
|
Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 22, 2021 11:20:28 GMT
At 57 Bonnie is 7 years older than Rachel and 10 years older than Sutton. A lot to ask?
|
|
4,483 posts
|
Post by Being Alive on Nov 22, 2021 11:55:30 GMT
She's also Bonnie Langford and a true pro. She'd do it absolutely fine.
|
|
|
Post by danb on Nov 22, 2021 12:37:26 GMT
I’d be perfectly happy for them to cut it back to the Paige/Lupone ‘shuffle to the back in the energetic numbers’ scenario to see her do this. I think it would be inspired & financially prudent casting.
|
|
7,540 posts
|
Post by alece10 on Nov 22, 2021 19:42:13 GMT
On the subject of Bonnie, she is doing 2 shows in January at Crazy Coqs. Just went to book and they are both sold out. Shows she can still pull in the punters.
|
|