Monday, May 12, 2014
THAT RHYMES WITH P, AND THAT STANDS FOR POOL: Apparently, at upfronts this morning, NBC announced that after Peter Pan: Live!, their next live musical will be The Music Man. For once, NPH/Anne Hathaway is actually plausible, but let's try and be a little more innovative. (Cristin Milioti as Marian, especially since she's got an NBC sitcom in the fall?)
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My suggestions: Timberlake/Foster, or Lin-Manuel/Foster.
ReplyDeleteAnd thinking of two people who made Broadway debuts this year and who have ties to NBC? Zachary Levi and Zach Braff, though both probably read too earnest for Harold Hill.
ReplyDeleteNorbert Leo Butz & Sutton Foster. Boom, done.
ReplyDeleteNBC's version: Zach Braff and Taylor Swift.
I would think Levi could handle it--his voice acting as the cad in Tangled was solid.
ReplyDeleteHis ties to CBS might muck it up, but Johnny Lee Miller would be a good HH along side Sutton Foster's Mariam. I'd love to see Audra play Marian. Hell, let her and her hubby, Will Swenson, take the leads; that'd be fun. Or Cheyenne Jackson. I agree w/ Finn that NLB is kind of perfect for the part, but I'm guessing they'd cast him as Marcellus.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen The Music Man, but, after last night, I'm proposing Dinklage in the male lead, and, in the female lead, also Dinklage. I know that's gonna be tough in a live show, but I have faith in Dinklage.
ReplyDeleteFoster as Hill, Milioti as Marian.
ReplyDeleteNot an a-list celeb, but Kate Baldwin did a lovely Marian Paroo in the Arena Stage (DC) production a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteKristen Bell could make a great Marian. She proved with Frozen that she can sing it.
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