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musicalcastingideas · 21 days

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Succession The Musical Hypothetical Casting

I’m doing this in one shot and off the top of my head, so I will be missing characters, I do also welcome suggestions.

Logan Roy: Patrick Page

Is this the obvious first choice? Yes. Is it the correct one? Also yes.

Kendall Roy: Lucas Steele

Kendall is just Anatole if he didn’t have a close relationship with his sister.

Roman Roy: Brandon Uranowitz

He played a nice neurotic freak in Falsettos, let's see him play an evil neurotic freak.

Shiv Roy: Eden Espinoza

I'll be honest, if I was genuinely casting a Succession musical as a real casting director, I would look for a more unknown performer to play Shiv, because I firmly believe that Shiv Roy should be an alto part, heavy in the lower range (like basically a tenor). Shiv's plot revolves around trying to push past her gender to be taken seriously, and I think having her being an alto who stays in her lower register would really highlight how hard she's trying to be taken seriously. That said, I would not at all be disappointed to have Eden Espinoza in the part. She's insanely talented, and I would love to see her interpretation of Shiv.

Connor Roy: Josh Groban

So there's a clip of The Opera from "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" where the ensemble sings "Pierre, the cuckold, sits at home", and then Pierre pops up saying "No, I am enjoying myself at home this evening" while giving a sad little thumbs up, while his wife is off banging another man? That's the energy I want for my Connor Roy.

Tom Wambsgans: Brian D'Arcy James

Is he maybe a little old for the part? Sure. But age onstage is fucky, and Brian D’Arcy James would absolutely kill it as the combination ass-kisser and ruthless bastard that is Tom Wambsgans. Also he gives Minnesota.

Greg Hirsch: George Salazar

I kinda don’t feel like I have to explain this one.

Gerri: Bernadette Peters

Icons playing icons.

Frank: Mandy Patinkin

Sunday In The Park With George reunion!

Willa Ferreyra: Samantha Pauly

I rewatched her All You Wanna Do again last night (and cried again) and when I thought about Willa, that popped into my head. (Not in the sense that I think Willa is a victim like Katherine Howard, she’s a consenting sex worker, more the fact that in the succession world, women, like Willa, are only valued for their sexuality.) Anyway, Sam Pauly also just kills every part she’s in so…

Stewy Hosseini: Tony Yazbek

He’s played Billy Flynn on Broadway, so he’s good at being a smarmy yet charming asshole (I say this with love, I love both Stewy and Billy Flynn)

Lukas Matsson: Aaron Tiveit

He’s hot but can also be scary.

Hard Cuts/ Impossible:

Edward Herrman as Karl

Would he be fun in the role? Yes. Is he dead, and therefore incapable of doing it? Also yes.

Daniel Radcliffe as Roman

Barrett Wilbert Weed as Shiv

Mandy Patinkin as Logan

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mthguy · 8 months

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On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music. The musical introduced several popular and classic songs, among them "New York, New York", "Lonely Town", "I Can Cook, Too" (for which Bernstein also wrote the lyric), and "Some Other Time". The story concerns three American sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City during World War II, 1944. Each of the three sailors meets and quickly connects with a woman.

On the Town was first produced on Broadway in 1944 and was made into a film in 1949, although the film replaced all but four of the original Broadway numbers with Hollywood-written substitutes. The show has enjoyed several major revivals on Broadway in 1971, 1998, and 2014.

Here, Tony Yazbeck, Clyde Alves, and Jay Armstrong Jones, from the 2014 Broadway revival, perform “New York, New York.”

#youtube #broadway musical #on the town #leonard bernstein #betty comden #adolph green #jerome robbins #tony yazbeck #clyde alves #jay armstrong jones #2014 broadway revival #new york new york

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bestmusicalworldcup · 5 months

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Manhattan Concert Productions is producing a concert edition of Stephen Schwartz and John Caird's Children of Eden directed by Tony Yazbeck.

The cast includes Auli'i Cravalho as Yonah, Nikki Renée Daniels as Eve and Mama Noah, Norm Lewis as Father, David Phelps as Adam and Noah, Donald Webber, Jr. as Cain and Japeth, and Lucas Pastrana as Abel and Ham, along with Jennifer McGill, Jesse Nager, Marcus Paul James, Rema Webb, Runako Campbell, Dylis Croman, Karli Dinardo, Tyler Hanes, Jakob Karr, and Zelig Williams.

The concert will happen at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on February 18, 2024.

#children of eden #musicals #theater news #not a poll

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jgroffdaily · 7 months

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Bloomingdale’s has debuted its annual holiday campaign, Best Holiday Ever, with The Carousel @ Bloomingdale’s: Wonka, to be followed by its yearly window unveiling, hosted this year in partnership with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

On November 16, the retailer unveils its iconic window display at the 59th Street flagship with a night of festive celebrations, philanthropy, and must-see performances, also inspired by Wonka. The unveiling, which begins at 6 pm, will be hosted by Amber Ruffin, co-writer of Broadway’s Some Like It Hot and contributor to the upcoming revival of The Wiz. She’ll be joined by special guest Jonathan Groff. Other featured performers include Norm Lewis (The Phantom of the Opera) and Jessica Vosk (Wicked, Fiddler on the Roof).

This holiday season, Bloomingdale’s will continue to partner with customers to “b the change,” raising awareness and funds for organizations that advance its mission of building a more equitable, sustainable future for all, including its ongoing relationship with No Kid Hungry, a national campaign to end childhood hunger, and the Child Mind Institute, whose mission is to transform the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS helps people receive lifesaving medications, health care, nutritious meals, counseling, and emergency financial assistance and has been a Bloomingdale’s grant recipient for the past two years, leveraging its talented supporters from the Broadway community to add animation to its flagship store while spreading awareness.

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And from a press release at Yahoo:

The unveiling, which begins at 6 pm, will be hosted by Amber Ruffin, co-writer of Broadway's Some Like It Hot and contributor to the upcoming The Wiz revival. She'll be joined by special guest Jonathan Groff, a two-time Tony Award nominee currently starring in the smash hit Merrily We Roll Along. The unveiling will feature performances like no other from Tony nominee Norm Lewis (The Phantom of the Opera) and Broadway actor and Carnegie Hall sensation Jessica Vosk (Wicked, Fiddler on the Roof). Following, there will be whimsical customer experiences and exclusive activations throughout the store including performances by Tony Award-Honored Broadway Inspirational Voices, Emmy Award nominee and Co-Creator of S.N.O.B Preston W. Dugger III (aka DJ Duggz), Telly Leung (Aladdin, Glee), Grammy nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award nominee Brittney Mack (SIX, as original Anna of Cleves), Parsons Dance and Tony Award nominee Tony Yazbeck (Prince of Broadway).

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Note: the event starts at 6pm and Jonathan is scheduled to be on stage at 7pm?

#jonathan groff #appearance #bcefa #bloomingdales

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thehours2002 · 1 year

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so sad that james lapine didn’t really let tony yazbeck really slut it up as cary grant in flying over sunset

#he should have made out with robert sella these are the facts

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oldisnewradio · 2 months

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Tonight! Jane Scheckter, JALALA, Melissa Errico, Karen Mason, The Bistro Awards, Tony Yazbeck, Wendy Ginsberg Scherl, Michael Feinstein, an interview with Natalie Douglas on The Mabel Mercer Foundation's Educational Dept. Julia Parasram, Lincoln Johnson, Lizzie Buller & Elias Javier, Nicolas King, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire & More!

Join me for Everything Old Is New Again Radio Show on The Penthouse at 10PM(ET) as we celebrate Cabaret Month!

More info at www.oldisnew.org

#EverythingOldIsNewAgainRadioShow #45thYear #PopStandards #GreatAmericanSongbook #Jazz #Showtunes #Cabaret #broadway

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deadlinecom · 7 months

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sondheims-hat · 10 months

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August 3, 2017: Prince of Broadway begins previews at the Friedman. The revue included scenes from many of the Price/Sondheim collaborations. The cast included Tony Yazbeck, Karen Ziemba, Chuck Cooper, Brandon Uranowitz, and Emily Skinner, and was choreographed by Susan Stroman. It would be Prince's final Broadway directing credit.

#Sondheim #Hal Prince #Prince of Broadway #Broadway

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noblehcart · 2 years

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ohgod Tony Yazbeck singing “Into the Fire” is wrecking me.

#// ooc #damn he's handsome #-chinhands-#a WELCOME distraction from the beginnings of a shite afternoon #but yeah tony yaz for the role of gle.b vag.ano.v

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moxyphinx · 2 years

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FLYING OVER SUNSET at Lincoln Center Theater dir. James Lapine

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pureanonofficial · 2 years

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Happy trails to FLYING OVER SUNSET

November 11, 2021 - January 16, 2022

#Flying Over Sunset #musical theater #broadway #Harry Hadden-Paton #Tony Yazbeck #Carmen Cusack #Robert Sella #Laura Shoop #broadwayedit #theateredit #musicaledit #James Lapine #Tom Kitt #Lincoln Center Theater #fosedit #flyingoversunsetedit #broadwaydaily #pureanonedits

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belizedeservesbetter · 3 years

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Flying Over Sunset has a fantastic act one, good act two, and terrible ending

or, letting Cary Grant be gay would open his mind more than LSD

I want to start off by saying that Flying Over Sunset is probably the new musical I’ve been looking forward to most this upcoming season. When it was announced I was like “wait what the hell is this?” and that’s part of the reason why I was so intrigued. The premise - three famous artists all take LSD together - was something I didn’t expect to hit the Broadway stage, especially at Lincoln Center. Likewise, the show didn’t have an out of town tryout or anything so the plot, the music, and all the details were completely unknown. All I knew is that it had music by Tom Kitt, book and direction by James Lapine and would be starring Carmen Cusack, Harry Haddon-Paton, and Tony Yazbeck. I was very much looking forward to seeing it in March 2020.

And then, well, you know.

But now, in November 2021, Flying Over Sunset has finally started performances at Lincoln Center in their stunning Vivian Beaumont Theatre.

And it is absolutely not what I expected at all.

Like not at all.

Before I really get into it, this musical is not for everyone. I’m interested in what the critics will have to say about this one because they will either love it or hate it with no in between. The crowds at the show were pretty divided too - with some people after the show talking in the lobby about how much they hated it. Even worse, I noticed a lot of empty seats after the intermission, and the house was already pretty empty. And then, during Tony Yazbeck’s act two song, “Rocket Ship” where the main lyric is “I am a penis rocket ship,” I fully saw three people get up and leave.

But you know what? I really liked it! This is a weird musical that poses a lot of interesting questions and themes and is filled to the brim with subtly and subtext. It’s a musical that really requires you to think.

Since there isn’t much out there about the plot of the musical, I’ll give a brief synopsis: **Slight spoilers ahead**

Act one chronicles Aldous Huxley’s, Clare Boothe Luce’s, and Cary Grant’s first times taking LSD - both Huxley and Boothe Luce are guided by Gerald Heard, who has just as big of a role as the rest of them but for some reason isn’t often included in the advertisement for the show. This act also details what each of the characters are lacking in their lives, which is their reasoning behind why they take LSD. The act ends when Cary Grant runs into Clare, Aldous and Gerald at lunch and Clare proposes they all take LSD together. Then, as simply put as possible, act two is basically that day they take LSD together.

Like I said before, it’s a strange musical but there is a lot I really loved.

The score is absolutely lovely. Lincoln Center always has a large orchestra for their shows and that truly made these songs soar. I had heard that the characters only sing when they’re on LSD and I found that to be mostly true - I think the only exception was the Act One finale? Regardless, each song was beautiful. The title song, “Flying Over Sunset” was probably my favorite.

The book was also really well written. So often I feel that book scenes in musicals are severely lacking (I’m looking directly at you, Six) but the book for this musical almost felt like it could’ve been a play. It delved deep into each of the characters and the funny moments hit when they needed to hit and likewise the emotional moments landed when they needed to as well. I could’ve listened to those characters talk for hours.

And those very characters - Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce, Cary Grant, and Gerald Heard - are fantastic. They are four very different people who straddle the line between illusion and reality. They’re all deep thinkers who seemingly have it all but are missing something money and fame can’t buy. They’re missing something so important that their only way to find it is by taking LSD. Or at least they hope so.

Out of the four, it’s Cary Grant who interested me the most. Whenever he’s on the drug, he conjures his younger self, little Archie, wearing a dress his mother gave him. He tries to claim he didn’t like wearing the dress, but Archie tells him they both know that isn’t true. The musical won’t outright say that Cary’s internal struggle is about him being gay, but they sure as hell imply it quite a bit. His arc is already the most interesting of the crew, but pushing a little harder on this would’ve made it that much better. And that’s certainly how Tony Yazbeck seems to be playing him. This is heightened by the presence of Gerald Heard, who was as openly gay as one could be at that time. Heard’s LSD musings are sometimes about how he thinks Cary is hot, and the musical literally ends with Grant getting up close and personal with Heard like he’s about to kiss him, but then he doesn’t and just sits down right next to him and they both meditate. There was something absolutely fascinating about Grant throughout the whole show, but I wish they could’ve really committed to his queerness instead of trying to brush it off as “mommy issues,” which, by the way, are not my words but those of a LSD hallucination of Sophia Loren.

The performances are uniformly excellent. Carmen Cusack is phenomenal - I literally got shivers when she started singing - but I wish I cared more about her character. Most of her character basically revolves around “being sad about the deaths of her mother and daughter,” which are both very valid things to be sad about, I just wish we got more from her. The musical does seem to go to great lengths to avoid us disliking her - it’s only briefly mentioned that she’s a Republican politician and any homophobic remarks she makes towards Gerald are very quickly brushed off. Regardless, Cusack gave a fantastic performance.

(and on a brief side note while we’re talking about Booth Luce, Erika Henningsen [aka Cady from Mean Girls] was originally going to play her daughter Ann and later pulled out. I wonder if an earlier draft featured Ann more because as of now the role is incredibly small. She has very little stage time and doesn’t have a song or anything. It’s a little surprising to me that Henningsen would choose this role, considering she was just coming off a starring role in Mean Girls.)

Harry Haddon-Paton is a wonderful Aldous Huxley and really captures this anxious intellectual without making it too much. Tony Yazbeck made a really fantastic Cary Grant in a performance that was really rather subtle and relied a lot on glances and shifts in posture in reacting to others. He also has the best moment in the show with a fifteen minute tap dance in his psychiatrist’s office.

The real unsung hero of the show is Robert Sella as Gerald Heard. Again, I don’t know why he doesn’t have top billing along with Yazbeck, Cusack and Haddon-Paton. Gerald Heard is just as big of a character as the rest of them. Sella was really fantastic and I hope he’s remembered in reviews and award season.

The set design in this show is STUNNING. That set is GORGEOUS. It swirls and folds in on itself and is big and expensive and has the most gorgeous projection design. Honestly it’s one of the more impressive sets I’ve seen in a long long time.

Going back to the title of this review, Act One is truly fantastic. It hits all the emotional beats I wanted, it lays out intentions and problems the characters want to solve and introduces a lot of really interesting themes and ideas.

Act Two, on the other hand... It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. It was good, but after a really great Act One, I expected more. The problem is that Act Two revolves entirely around an acid trip, and that starts getting really repetitive really fast. However, Act Two is saved by a stunning sequence where Huxley, Grant and Heard go swimming in the ocean. The way this sequence is staged is ridiculously gorgeous and one of the most beautiful pieces of stagecraft I’ve encountered recently.

Then there’s the ending, which, unfortunately, is bad. They kind of have a song where they’re like “we’re better people now cause we met each other and took LSD.” The very last image of the play is nice but overall the ending left me unsatisfied. The musical also could’ve been maybe 30 minutes shorter.

And for a musical featuring a world renowned tap dancer as a choreographer, I wanted more tap dancing. There was barely any.

Overall, though, I really liked this musical. It was different and had something different to say and took a lot of risks and was bold. It scratches an itch I have for serious adult musicals that don’t spoon feed you everything on a silver platter, which I didn’t realize how much I missed until I saw this. I reccommend it if you can see it. I promise you won’t see anything else like it on Broadway right now.

#flying over sunset #broadway #carmen cusack #tony yazbeck #review #theatre

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mthguy · 1 year

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