Re:Casting The Defunct DS Musical

[Mary]

These ideas are hysterical!!  I love it!  OK, here's my suggestion for Marilyn Manson -- I think he'd make a great Buzz, except we'd need to beef up the part, so maybe we could combine Buzz's character with Jeb, like Buzz could turn out to secretly be the Leviathan leader -- oh wait, that was one of the worst storylines on the show -- um, we could skip a lot of that story but use the parts where we could see MM calling all the zombies up out of their graves, marrying Carolyn (and having a psychedelic honeymoon -- LOL!), and being chased off Widow's Hill to his death by the shadow all to insane hallucinatory MM music -- LOL!!

[Annie]

Hi Connie i would love to see Selby in a Top Hat
or Anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  YUMMY   Love Anne 

[Patti Feinberg]

LOLOLOL!!!! Marilyn Manson as JebEZ Hawkes!!!!

But, even better, Marilyn Manson as SABRINA!!!!

(okay, I'll be good now!!)

Patti

[danfling]

I was thinking of Betty Buckley or Cleo Laine as Dr. Julia Hoffman.     Both of these actresses worked with Rupert Holmes in his Mystery of Edwin Drood musical (based on a Charles Dickens work).

[Brian]

Okay, so I've been thinking about this for a few weeks now and have come up with not only my dream cast (see below), but I've actually started writing DS The Musical (I know. . .I know, I've said here that DC has no business writing a musical, but that Rupert Holmes and Robert Cobert could certainly write a good Broadway show--and since I've written my own share of musical theater pieces in the past 3*%^-odd years, I decided to give it a try, and the opening sequence is almost complete.  But y'all will have to wait until it's finished to read it.

Meantime, here's a cast I would love to have in the show (BTW, the 1790s cast will be featured only in a "dream sequence" at the end of Act One that tells the story of how Barnabas became a vampire).

Cast of Characters
VICTORIA WINTERS                        Ruthie Henshall
ELIZABETH COLLINS STODDARD      Julie Andrews
ROGER COLLINS                             Richard Gere
CAROLYN STODDARD                      Kristen Chenowith
DR. JULIA HOFFMAN                       Donna Murphy
MAGGIE EVANS                              tba
MRS. JOHNSON                              Nancy Barrett
WILLIE LOOMIS                             Bronson Pinchot
JOE HASKELL                                 Marc Kudisch
PROFESSOR T. ELIOT STOKES         George Hearn
BARNABAS COLLINS                      Hugh Jackman
DAVID COLLINS                             tba
ANGELIQUE                                   Catherine Zeta-Jones
   
1795 Flashback Dream Sequence
NAOMI COLLINS                            Julie Andrews
JOSHUA COLLINS                          Richard Gere
JOSETTE duPRES                           Ruthie Henshall
JEREMIAH COLLINS                       Marc Kudisch
ABIGAIL COLLINS                         Nancy Barrett
MILLICENT COLLINS                     Kristen Chenowith
NATALIE duPRES                          Donna Murphy
BEN STOKES                                George Hearn

Any comments?

Brian

[Mary]

Uh oh -- um, I don't know who some of those people are!  Eek!  Have to confess my ignorance -- oh dear. LOL!  OK, who are Ruthie Henshaw, Marc Kudisch, George Hearn, and Donna Murphy?  I've heard of those last two, but can't think where right now.

Bronson Pinchot as Willie cracks me up!  Now there's an idea!  LOL!

Good luck with your musical!  How cool! 

[Brian]

. . .I don't know who some of those people are. . . who are Ruthie Henshaw, Marc Kudisch, George Hearn, and Donna Murphy?

Mary, no problem.  If you can find it, pick up the DVD of Stephen Sondheim's review PUTTING IT TOGETHER starring Carol Burnett.  You'll also find George Hearn, Ruthie Henshall AND Bronson Pinchot in this fun Broadway show.

You can find Marc Kudisck as Conrad Birdie in the 1995 TV remake of BYE BYE BIRDIE, but he's mainly a Broadway name.

And Donna Murphy is currently in WONDERFUL TOWN on B'way, but try to find the DVD of Sondheim's PASSION and you'll see her give a wonderful performance  as Fosca.

Brian

[Mark Rainey]

George Hearn is probably best-known (at least to me) for playing Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street -- a most wonderful musical. He's also done a lot of voice acting for cartoon shows.

[Mary]

Thanks, Brian!