When I saw the show on Broadway, George Wendt played Edna and Darlene Love was Motormouth Maybelle.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M-D November Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 3:59 PM To: TVorNotTV Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's next live December musical Agreed - it's an excellent choice - it checks a lot of boxes (including the fact that racial equality/civil rights is a major storyline). Fully acknowledging that Harvey is the originator of the (musical version of the) role of Edna, I'd rather see Michael McKean (who also played Edna on Broadway) do the TV version. Do they bring Walken back to play Tracey's dad? On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 5:24:41 AM UTC-5, Dave Sikula wrote: It -is- a great choice, and (as someone who's played Edna Turnblad) is going to be another one where the lack of live audience response bites them in the ass. Zadan and Meron have explained why they don't want an audience (they think it's old-fashioned or something), but there are three or four numbers in this one that can fall flat without feedback and soar with it. I anticipate they'll have a talent contest for a girl to play Tracy (and why they don't make a miniseries out of it, I don't know) and sign a big name for Edna (I'd love to see Harvey Fierstein reprise the role) and TV names for everyone else. I can hope they'll finally change their minds about the audience, but don't expect it. --Dave Sikula On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 11:02:39 AM UTC-8, MelissaP wrote: Great choice. It’s the first one in the series I’m actually looking forward to. NBC announced that Hairspray will be the next live musical. I saw it as a tweet and I'm sure there will be linkable articles later today. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
