Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
#1Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 1:28am
I think Jessie is such a brilliant and versatile actor! She's one of the best we have so what roles would you like to see her play?
Fanny Brice - Funny Girl
Eliza Doolittle - My Fair Lady
Amalia - She Loves Me
Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd
Maria Von Trapp - The Sound of Music (even though she's probably to old)
Annie Oakley - Annie Get Your Gun
Charity - Sweet Charity
Mame - Mame
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#2Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 1:46am
How is she too old to play Maria von Trapp and yet you've dream-casted her as Mame and Mrs. Lovett? Mary Martin was in her late forties when she played Maria, and Angela Lansbury was 41 and 54 when she played the other two.
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#3Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 1:48am
Nellie from South Pacific.
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#4Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 3:39am
I don't think she's to old, but they seem to cast maria younger and younger nowadays. Like Benanti who was 19 when she replaced Luker in the last revival, or Kerstin Anderson (I think she's 20?), who's playing the role on tour. I would actually love to see an older girl to play the role so its not like a young girl marrying an old ass man with 6 kids. They seem to do that stuff today. Im happy its not like that with the She Loves Me revival.
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Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#5Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 11:04am
I need to see her in something else because I was not moved by her performance in Into the Woods at all, but everyone on this board just goes on and on and on about her ad nauseum so I must have missed something.
#6Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 1:19pm
Eliza in My Fair Lady
Fantine in Les Miserables
Belle in Beauty and the Beast
Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun
Elizabeth in Young Frankenstein
Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes
Louise in Gypsy
Lucy Harris in Jekyll and Hyde
#7Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 1:30pm
"I don't think she's to old, but they seem to cast maria younger and younger nowadays. Like Benanti who was 19 when she replaced Luker in the last revival, or Kerstin Anderson (I think she's 20?), who's playing the role on tour. I would actually love to see an older girl to play the role so its not like a young girl marrying an old ass man with 6 kids. They seem to do that stuff today. Im happy its not like that with the She Loves Me revival."
You do realize that Maria's husband was 25 years older then her, don't you? It may seem like she's marrying an "old ass man", but when she married at age 22, her husband was 47. It may seem wrong to you, but casting a young actress against a middle aged actor is faithful to the story.
And an "older girl" is a woman. An adult female is not a girl; neither is Jessie Mueller. She's a 32 year old woman.
#8Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 3:50pm
Does it even say those ages in the show?
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#9Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 4:17pm
She'd be a pretty freaking great Fanny Brice.
Mabel in Mack and Mabel
Mother in Ragtime
Marian the librarian
Mary in Merrily we roll along
Anna in The King and I
Dot in Sunday In the Park with George
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#10Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 4:19pm
I need to see her in something else because I was not moved by her performance in Into the Woods at all, but everyone on this board just goes on and on and on about her ad nauseum so I must have missed something.
I can agree to this. I thought Jessie's performance in Beautiful was wonderful but I don't think she is the answer to the theater Gods prayers, like she is being hyped up to be. Her Cinderella left me completely cold (as did the whole production). I'm excited to see what she does in Waitress. I hope it's completely different from her work in Beautiful.
#11Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 4:25pm
It's heavily implied that there is a significant difference in age, simply because Maria is a young postulant and Captain von Trapp is a widower with seven kids--including one that is already 16. Most parents of 16 year old children aren't 30 and most postulants aren't 35. The Captain is also supposed to be high ranking and well regarded military leader, something you wouldn't expect at a young age.
If Jessie Mueller were to be Maria, you'd need an older captain for it to believable. I love Rebecca Luker, but even when I saw the show when I was 11 or so, she struck me as too old to be someone who wasn't even a young nun yet.
#12Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/25/15 at 4:54pm
One thing you have to understand is, the stage is more forgiving than film when it comes to casting actors or actresses in roles that are technically supposed to be young.
I mean when Glenn Close played Nellie Forbush in the TV "South Pacific" she was not right age at all. Nellie is supposed to be someone who is like fresh out of nursing school and very young.
#13Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/28/15 at 2:38am
any more?
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#14Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/28/15 at 4:34am
"Does it even say those ages in the show? "
Yes--and it also says in the script that you're an idiot.
#15Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/28/15 at 5:10pm
are u sure
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#16Dream Cast Jessie Mueller!
Posted: 7/28/15 at 8:30pm
I'm glad Fanny was first on OP list. She's my first choice if they do get the revival together. She did Cinderella but would love to see her do the Baker's wife. Narrator in Joseph. Definitely Elizabeth in Young Frankenstein.
