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Post by Theatre Fan on Jun 18, 2020 22:56:50 GMT
Baz confirmed it last week and we all missed it lol x x x
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 18, 2020 23:21:17 GMT
I wouldn’t get too excited.. the only interesting thing about this production was the huge set for Higgins study and they won’t be able to do that at the coliseum!
I assume this will be a touring version they will send on the road after.
Sheridan or Jenna Russell as Eliza? 🤣
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Post by musicalmarge on Jun 18, 2020 23:26:40 GMT
What’s theatre? I forgot...
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Post by ali973 on Jun 19, 2020 3:18:57 GMT
Sheridan or Jenna Russell as Eliza? 🤣 You joke, but sometimes London casting director have no sense of humor. And not Lara Pulver or Laura Pitt Pulford, either. Sometimes I'm convinced they're the same person. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 19, 2020 5:29:17 GMT
I'm not 100% sure that they won't cast Sheridan Smith in this tbh, although the idea is frankly horrifying
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 19, 2020 6:02:06 GMT
I agree with Mr B. I thought the production was fine but I'm surprised someone thought its good enough to travel accross the pond.
I should be more positive after months of gloomy theatre news
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 7:26:57 GMT
It's nothing new as a production - nice sets and the show is always enjoyable but that's about it.
I'm afraid the show was rather ruined for me by Laura Benanti's inability to do either a Cockney accent or more refined English accent, so I wouldn't mind seeing it with someone who can sing just as well as her but can get the accents right.
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Post by stevej678 on Jun 19, 2020 8:56:50 GMT
The only excuse I'll accept for Carly Bawden not being cast in this is if she's otherwise engaged in the West End with Romantics Anonymous.
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Post by theatreian on Jun 19, 2020 9:15:10 GMT
The only excuse I'll accept for Carly Bawden not being cast in this is if she's otherwise engaged in the West End with Romantics Anonymous. You beat me to it! Remember seeing Carly in Sheffield with Dominic West. An amazing performance in what is known as one of the most difficult female leads to sing. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 9:35:36 GMT
Amazing news! Now anyone involved with casting.... please do NOT ask Katherine Jenkins. I beg you.
I feel like they’ll need a name for Eliza though - no idea if she can act, but Perrie Edwards from Little Mix has been posting videos of herself singing the score:
There was talk years ago of Anne Hathaway being cast in a new movie adaption, could she be tempted to the West End?
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Post by duncan on Jun 19, 2020 9:36:18 GMT
The time has come for the Martine revival.
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Post by theatreian on Jun 19, 2020 9:39:29 GMT
Martine was amazing when I saw her in it at the National. I was so pleased when she did my show which was a matinee too!! I remember an audible gasp when she appeared at the top of the staircase in all her finery!
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Post by clair on Jun 19, 2020 10:45:26 GMT
I would love this to have 'names' for the older characters such as Higgins, Pickering, Doolittle, Mrs Higgins and Mrs Pearce but to give a couple of unknowns a chance as Eliza and Freddy. So many young performers who are wondering whether they'll have a profession to enter right now and it would be amazing to offer that chance out there for them
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 11:09:23 GMT
I would love this to have 'names' for the older characters such as Higgins, Pickering, Doolittle, Mrs Higgins and Mrs Pearce but to give a couple of unknowns a chance as Eliza and Freddy. So many young performers who are wondering whether they'll have a profession to enter right now and it would be amazing to offer that chance out there for them I’m pretty sure Diana Rigg could be coaxed back into it - she was very popular on Game of Thrones so is known to people of all ages now. Jude Law maybe for Higgins? |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 19, 2020 11:22:35 GMT
Ring-Ring. Ring-Ring. Ring-....
“Ye-llo babes?
“Hello, is that Alexandra Burke?
“Yes babes...
“This is the West End, we’re currently casting for My Fa...”
“YEEEEEESSSSS BAAAAAAAAABES!
“I’ll pop a contract in the post. Good afternoon.
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Post by danb on Jun 19, 2020 11:26:35 GMT
Martine was amazing when I saw her in it at the National. I was so pleased when she did my show which was a matinee too!! I remember an audible gasp when she appeared at the top of the staircase in all her finery! Lucky you! Although Alex Jay was lovely anyway, it felt like the whole of the Lyttleton willing her to be magnificent as a big ‘f&ck you’ to MM when we saw it. |
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Post by ABr on Jun 19, 2020 11:42:41 GMT
I would love this to have 'names' for the older characters such as Higgins, Pickering, Doolittle, Mrs Higgins and Mrs Pearce but to give a couple of unknowns a chance as Eliza and Freddy. So many young performers who are wondering whether they'll have a profession to enter right now and it would be amazing to offer that chance out there for them I'm all for casting like this! Give some new names a try and put some recognisable names in the smaller support roles! |
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Post by alece10 on Jun 19, 2020 18:25:58 GMT
Martine was amazing when I saw her in it at the National. I was so pleased when she did my show which was a matinee too!! I remember an audible gasp when she appeared at the top of the staircase in all her finery! I agree. I also saw her perform and she was brilliant. |
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Post by alece10 on Jun 19, 2020 18:28:00 GMT
I would love this to have 'names' for the older characters such as Higgins, Pickering, Doolittle, Mrs Higgins and Mrs Pearce but to give a couple of unknowns a chance as Eliza and Freddy. So many young performers who are wondering whether they'll have a profession to enter right now and it would be amazing to offer that chance out there for them I’m pretty sure Diana Rigg could be coaxed back into it - she was very popular on Game of Thrones so is known to people of all ages now. Jude Law maybe for Higgins? A friend of mine who is a bit of an expert on the dame and said that she does not like to revisit previous roles but in 2022 she will be 84 so something she might just consider. |
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 19, 2020 19:43:59 GMT
Controversially I loved the Broadway revival!
I can see them putting a couple of names in this (easiest being Mrs Higgins and Alfred). I think Zoe Wannamaker could be a good Mrs Higgins.
I'd like to see Harry as Henry again, and Gina Beck as Eliza.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 20:32:01 GMT
I’m pretty sure Diana Rigg could be coaxed back into it - she was very popular on Game of Thrones so is known to people of all ages now. Jude Law maybe for Higgins? A friend of mine who is a bit of an expert on the dame and said that she does not like to revisit previous roles but in 2022 she will be 84 so something she might just consider. Different works I know, but she did play Mrs. Higgins in 2011 in Pygmalion too. Looking through her list of credits I see she also played Eliza back in the day, so maybe she has a soft spot for this particular story? |
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Post by barrowside on Jun 19, 2020 22:06:33 GMT
I saw Carly Bawden in Sheffield too and she was amazing. Would love to see her take it on again. He might be a little young but Andrew Scott would be a wonderful Higgins.
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Post by llevy453 on Jun 20, 2020 0:31:24 GMT
I always thought Kara Tointon would be a good pick for Eliza
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Post by sophie92 on Jun 20, 2020 12:49:01 GMT
I always thought Kara Tointon would be a good pick for Eliza Well, she has done Pygmalion |
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 20, 2020 12:59:37 GMT
I know it's called acting, and the Coliseum is a huge theatre, but Eliza is a flower GIRL aged 18 or 19; she is not a middle-aged flower woman aged 35 or 36!
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