<p>Bullet, you crack me up! :D</p>
<p>ITA re Lea Michelle in Funny Girl! (They could also do Cabaret with Lea as Sally and Chris Colfer in the Joel Grey role. But that’s no fun, because obviously they would be great!)</p>
<p>Seriously? Are there no “name” actors that can both sing and act? Why don’t we start there?</p>
<p>Or like others have said: at least cast people who can sing and act in the main roles and use names in the supporting cast. </p>
<p>I would love to see them do Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Very family friendly and fun. Although Donny Osmond is getting a bit old for the part.</p>
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Which was a remake of the 1937 version of “A Star Is Born,” starring Janet Gaynor and Frederic March. Which was itself a near-remake of the 1932 film “What Price Hollywood” with Constance Bennett. For my money, the Garland-Mason version is a can’t-miss and the others are decent. The Streisand version is my least favorite.</p>
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Will Ferrell as Anchorman Ron Burgundy playing Professor Higgins.</p>
<p>Neil Patrick Harris can only do SO many shows before it gets old.</p>
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<p>No! Please don’t let Lea Michelle ruin Funny Girl.</p>
<p>^^^^Catherine Zeta Jones, Queen Latifia come to mind, as well as Anne Hathaway. Hugh Jackman as a male role.</p>
<p>Joseph Gordon-Levitt in anything! Take your pick. Maybe West Side Story.</p>
<p>I’m not fond of Lea Michelle and the twerk-tongue Cyrus is off the list for me.</p>
<p>[After</a> ‘Music,’ NBC plans new live musical](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2013/12/10/nbc-the-sound-of-music-live/3950409/]After”>After 'Music,' NBC plans new live musical)</p>
<p>I can count how many musicals I went to with my fingers so I am pretty easy to please. I would not be able to tell the talent gap between those in NYC and those in DC. But I think Carrie Underwood was pretty bad. I can only think the only reason some people like her is because they like country music or they are her fans or both.</p>
<p>To those who said she had a big shoe to fill or she’s “brave”…blah blah. It’s not her <em>duty</em> to play the role. Many less famous stage actresses would love to take her place and they would be way better than her. Brave? People like her love getting attention and aren’t afraid of anything like that. She knew she was asked because of her fame only. If she’s really nice about it, she would have declined and given it to someone else that would be much better. I call that shameless.</p>
<p>Eleanor Parker dies at 91 yesterday; played baroness in ‘The Sound of Music’</p>
<p>[LA</a> Times](<a href=“http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78492361/]LA”>http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78492361/)
RIP “Baroness”</p>
<p>I can definitely see Blake Shelton as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls.</p>
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<p>I wonder what kind of ratings it will get?</p>
<p>The best musical I’ve ever seen was the London revival of “Guys and Dolls,” starring Ian Charleson as Sky Masterson.</p>
<p>At the time, we assumed it was “stunt casting.”( Charleson had won the Academy Award for Chariots of Fire. ) Then he started to sing…He was amazing.</p>
<p>Of course, we were dumb Americans who didn’t know Charleson had sung in other roles.</p>
<p>Love the songs in “Guys & Dolls.” Sure is nice when folks casted can sing and act–used to be one of the funny things about opera, as many were pretty wooden. Now, many are able to sing and act, plus many even look their parts! :)</p>
<p>Interesting, I saw Tom Wopat (he of “Dukes of Hazard” fame) in the NY revival several years ago, and was surprised how good he was as Sky Masteron,both acting and singing. It was a stellar cast, and he handled the role very, very well.</p>
<p>Good question, Jonri. I’m sure it will be a highly viewed broadcast. I know that all this talk made me nostalgic for the original so I popped in the DVD on my laptop and my earbuds and sang along. Amazing how I remembered most of the lyrics.</p>
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<p>I am neither a country music fan nor an Underwood fan. That doesn’t stop me from appreciating her vocal talent and finding her SOM performance enjoyable. You know what’s annoying to me? Every time I go to a Broadway musical and I have to listen to a Broadway singer sing in a thin, nasal voice. It’s like nails on a chalkboard.</p>
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Chariots of Fire won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture, but none for acting. It was Ian Holm, not Ian Charleson, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Chariots of Fire.</p>