Post by jo on Aug 18, 2015 23:58:33 GMT -5
Patrick Stewart talks about a wish-list project co-starring Hugh Jackman --
thesource.com/2015/08/18/jacki-weaver-sir-patrick-stewart-talk-new-show-blunt-talk/
If not on stage - maybe a TV special?? There have been a few revivals - the last one was with Michael Cerveris and Patti Lupone, but in the John Doyle style where the actors play the musical instruments themselves. But that was some years ago. In the UK the last revival was an award-winning revival with with Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. No Broadway transfer because Staunton was already committed to another brilliant role for her ( Rose in GYPSY).
Hugh and Imelda in a TV special, with Patrick as Judge Turpin, would be a great idea!
Hugh has mentioned in the past that Sweeney Todd is another dream role for him.
Jo
thesource.com/2015/08/18/jacki-weaver-sir-patrick-stewart-talk-new-show-blunt-talk/
Q: At this point in your career, what else is left that you want to do? What haven’t you done?
A: Well, first of all, live long enough to do these things. I mean at the moment I am healthy so I don’t see why not but still 75 is 75. There are some great classical roles that I want to play. King Lear for instance…I would really like to find some brilliant original, unique film script but then every other actor who is in movies is looking for the exact same script and there are usually only two or three of them a year that come up. I want to do more comedy on stage if I can. I would like to sing more if I can. I am singing with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra next month and we are doing a concept version of “My Fair Lady” which I have always wanted to do. I will never play the role now because I am much too old but I at least going to do it in concert which will be fun…But I would like to do one major musical before I hang up my makeup kit, I don’t know what it would be, but I would have loved, I would have given anything to play Sweeney Todd…I did do it in concert though with the wonderful Lynn Redgrave.
Q: I was picturing you as Judge Turpin when you were being whipped like that in the show.
A: Here’s my plan. I am continually trying to persuade Hugh Jackman that one of the major roles that Hugh Jackman must have lined up for himself is Sweeney. He would be an incredible—with that voice and that acting ability and the way that he looks, he would be a terrifying Sweeney Todd. But the condition is that I get to play the judge.
Q: Speaking of Hugh Jackman, “Wolverine 3,” do you think is the end of the original cast?
A: Well, they are in the middle of filming. I went up there to Montreal a couple of weeks ago. The X-Men movie will be inhabited by Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy; the youngsters. Not Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. But there is, I am told, a Wolverine movie in development that would include Charles Xavier but a very different Charles Xavier that we have seen before. And I don’t know quite what that means but I am very, very excited about that. I love Hugh and I love working with him. And James Mangold is set to direct so we shall see.
A: Well, first of all, live long enough to do these things. I mean at the moment I am healthy so I don’t see why not but still 75 is 75. There are some great classical roles that I want to play. King Lear for instance…I would really like to find some brilliant original, unique film script but then every other actor who is in movies is looking for the exact same script and there are usually only two or three of them a year that come up. I want to do more comedy on stage if I can. I would like to sing more if I can. I am singing with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra next month and we are doing a concept version of “My Fair Lady” which I have always wanted to do. I will never play the role now because I am much too old but I at least going to do it in concert which will be fun…But I would like to do one major musical before I hang up my makeup kit, I don’t know what it would be, but I would have loved, I would have given anything to play Sweeney Todd…I did do it in concert though with the wonderful Lynn Redgrave.
Q: I was picturing you as Judge Turpin when you were being whipped like that in the show.
A: Here’s my plan. I am continually trying to persuade Hugh Jackman that one of the major roles that Hugh Jackman must have lined up for himself is Sweeney. He would be an incredible—with that voice and that acting ability and the way that he looks, he would be a terrifying Sweeney Todd. But the condition is that I get to play the judge.
Q: Speaking of Hugh Jackman, “Wolverine 3,” do you think is the end of the original cast?
A: Well, they are in the middle of filming. I went up there to Montreal a couple of weeks ago. The X-Men movie will be inhabited by Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy; the youngsters. Not Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. But there is, I am told, a Wolverine movie in development that would include Charles Xavier but a very different Charles Xavier that we have seen before. And I don’t know quite what that means but I am very, very excited about that. I love Hugh and I love working with him. And James Mangold is set to direct so we shall see.
If not on stage - maybe a TV special?? There have been a few revivals - the last one was with Michael Cerveris and Patti Lupone, but in the John Doyle style where the actors play the musical instruments themselves. But that was some years ago. In the UK the last revival was an award-winning revival with with Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. No Broadway transfer because Staunton was already committed to another brilliant role for her ( Rose in GYPSY).
Hugh and Imelda in a TV special, with Patrick as Judge Turpin, would be a great idea!
Hugh has mentioned in the past that Sweeney Todd is another dream role for him.
Jo