Laura Osnes?

[magictodo123]

Posted: 4/20/19 at 11:58pm

So I know shes been doing the Broadway Princess Party tour? But I have to wonder if shes planning s return to Broadway any time soon...

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 12:19am

She’s been attached to the CRAZY FOR YOU revival, if it should ever actually materialize.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 3:32am

She was briefly excited about Marian the Librarian for four or five hours before that bubble quickly burst.

Crazy for You isn't dead, she said something about waiting for a theater, but Susan Stroman is in Seattle with Marie, Still Dancing, and then it looks like she'll spend the rest of the year working on this DreamWorks spectacular to premiere in Macau in December.

The five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman will bring her legendary talents, as director, to one of the most successful animated films of all time, Kung Fu Panda. DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda Spectacular Live is set to transform the entertainment landscape in Macau.  Performances are scheduled to commence in late December 2019 at The Venetian Theatre in Macau, with casting information and ticket details to be announced soon.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Susan-Stroman-Willliam-Ivey-Long-and-More-To-Stage-KUNG-FU-PANDA-Live-in-Macau-20190408

[magictodo123]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 8:26am

OlBlueEyes said: "She was briefly excited about Marian the Librarian for four or five hours before that bubble quickly burst.

Crazy for You isn't dead, she said something about waiting for a theater, but Susan Stroman is in Seattle with Marie, Still Dancing, and then it looks like she'll spend the rest of the year working on this DreamWorksspectacular to premiere in Macau in December.

The five-time Tony Award winnerSusan Stromanwill bring her legendary talents, as director, to one of the most successful animated films of all time, Kung Fu Panda. DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda Spectacular Live is set to transform the entertainment landscape in Macau. Performances are scheduled to commence in late December 2019 at The Venetian Theatre in Macau, with casting information and ticket details to be announced soon.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Susan-Stroman-Willliam-Ivey-Long-and-More-To-Stage-KUNG-FU-PANDA-Live-in-Macau-20190408"

Thank you! I was just curious. 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 9:17am

I know this is very definition of wishful thinking, but after seeing her stunning performance as Marguerite in the Pimpernel concert a few months ago, I would give anything to see her in a full fledged revival of the show. She was an absolute dream in that (as was Tony Yazbek). 

Updated On: 4/21/19 at 09:17 AM

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 9:23am

OlBlueEyes said: "She was briefly excited about Marian the Librarian for four or five hours before that bubble quickly burst.

A year or so after she finished Cinderella, I asked her what role she’d most like to play if she had her choice of any role in the history of Broadway musicals, and she told me that it was Marian the Librarian. So I’m guessing she was really excited about that possibility  

 

[James2]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 11:08am

Think she'll ever do something that isn't a period piece?

[massofmen]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 12:46pm

But Sutton is a much better soprano so it makes sense that...oh wait...

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 1:40pm

James2 said: "Think she'll ever do something that isn't a period piece?"

I was going to answer Bandstand but that was a period piece as you knew.

Ran four or five months and Andy Blankenbuehler won the Tony for choreography.

You could have swapped in returning Vietnam vets for returning World War Two vets but even something on Vietnam is pretty much a period piece.

 

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 1:51pm

"I was going to answer Bandstand but that was a period piece as you knew.

Ran four or five months and Andy Blankenbuehler won the Tony for choreography.

You could have swapped in returning Vietnam vets for returning World War Two vets but even something on Vietnam is pretty much a period piece."

Loved Bandstand and her performance in that show, wished it would have run longer. Quickly thinking about it, it seems to me most Broadway musicals are period pieces so it may not be that easy to find role she liked that is current.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 2:26pm

Quickly thinking about it, it seems to me most Broadway musicals are period pieces so it may not be that easy to find role she liked that is current.

That's a good point. Trying to think of new musicals set in the here and now is not that easy. Maybe it's enough to distinguish between revivals and first runs.

Laura and Tony Yazbeck are doing another four nights together at 54 Below in May and June.

You don't see a lot of Fred and Ginger acts anymore. This video is only one minute.


https://youtu.be/IQ0pandrBPE?t=389

Updated On: 4/22/19 at 02:26 PM

[EllieRose2]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 3:24pm

massofmen said: "But Sutton is a much better soprano so it makes sense that...oh wait..."

Sutton is correct for the part, nothing else to say.  She has a personality, it goes a very long way.  

 

[massofmen]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 3:25pm

She would have been great in Tootsie. Much better than Ms cooper (which is like watching paint dry on a stage)

Im also amazed Ms Osnes wasn't chosen as Julie Jordan in the carousel revival, but there aren't many other roles this season she could do.
   She is kinda in-between the young ingenue and the mom right now. Ah the life of a female leading lady on broadway.  Kelli ohara has navigated it pretty well but ms osnes might have a tougher time. 
 

[EllieRose2]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 3:54pm

I saw Laura and Steven perform Carousel in Chicago.  That should have transferred, they were incredible and their chemistry (unlike Jessie and Joshua) was electric.  Those voices!!!

[massofmen]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 3:58pm

EllieRose2 said: "I saw Laura and Steven perform Carousel in Chicago. That should have transferred, they were incredible and their chemistry (unlike Jessie and Joshua) was electric. Those voices!!!"

i only saw videos of it and it looked incredible. Why those two didn't occupy those roles in the revival is beyond me. Mr Pasquales acting and vocal brilliance along with Ms Osnes' would have made that revival soar. Instead is just fluttered. Jealous you got to see them in person

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 4:03pm

Those who saw Sutton dominate Anything Goes, but did not see her in Violet, can perhaps be forgiven for not understanding her range. I saw a couple of the early episodes of her first series, "Bunheads," and I was surprised that it was not renewed. They didn't know what they had.

[Bwayfan12092]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 4:15pm

Though it’s a ways down the road, I have a feeling she could be a replacement. (Like Victor Garber to David Hyde Pierce). 

 

RaisedOnMusicals said: "OlBlueEyes said: "She was briefly excited about Marian the Librarian for four or five hours before that bubble quickly burst.

A year or so after she finished Cinderella, I asked her what role she’d most like to play if she had her choice of any role in the history of Broadway musicals, and she told me that it was Marian the Librarian. So I’m guessing she was really excited about that possibility

"

 

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 4:25pm

EllieRose2 said: "I saw Laura and Steven perform Carousel in Chicago. That should have transferred, they were incredible and their chemistry (unlike Jessie and Joshua) was electric. Those voices!!!"

If there was one role that I thought the relentlessly cheerful Ms. Osnes could not play, it would have been quiet and melancholy Julie Jordan. But she and the show were well-received.

Osnes, who mostly has been stuck with one-dimensional ingenues and princesses thus far in her career, affords Julie a pervasive sense of melancholy — if there is one show where an actress can get away with playing the end from the beginning, this is that show. But Osnes also offers a very striking window into Julie's determination to separate from her peers, manifest vocally through the exiting crescendo she constructs for such famous lyrics as "Round in circles I'd go," where the resilience in the musical swell undermines the lyrical expression of doubt.  -- Chris Jones

There is a YouTube video of Stephen and Laura performing the bench scene, but without costume or set.

[msmp]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 9:51pm

bwayphreak234 said: "I know this is very definition of wishful thinking, but after seeing her stunningperformance as Marguerite in the Pimpernel concert a few months ago, I would give anything to see her in a full fledged revival of the show. She was an absolute dream in that (as was Tony Yazbek)."

As my grandmother used to say, from your lips to G-d's ears! I've been dreaming of her as Marguerite for a *long* time, and she's mentioned her love of Frank Wildhorn a number of times.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/22/19 at 12:08pm

A few seemed interested, so here is the bench scene with Laura and Steven Pasquale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XNQqKP-zk

After just seeing this clip, I think that Steven would rank very high on my list of Billys. I also think I have a better understanding of "chemistry" between characters.

Here is just a one minute excerpt from the first appearance of Laura and Tony Yazbeck at 54 Below.

https://youtu.be/IQ0pandrBPE?t=389

[MollyJeanneMusic]

Posted: 4/22/19 at 2:59pm

Is the Music Man revival a Roundabout revival or not?  If it isn't, I could see Laura coming in to play Marian after Sutton leaves, kind of like the Benanti/Ambrose thing with My Fair Lady.

[InnerMonologue]

Posted: 4/22/19 at 3:15pm

Believe it or not, Laura just did the recent developmental sessions for DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH. Unclear as to which role. Seems odd, but lot can happen between now and summer 2020.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/22/19 at 3:26pm

MollyJeanneMusic said: "Is the Music Man revival a Roundabout revival or not? If it isn't, I could see Laura coming in to play Marian after Sutton leaves, kind of like the Benanti/Ambrose thing with My Fair Lady."

The Music Man revival is a Scott Rudin production 

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/22/19 at 3:58pm

MollyJeanneMusic said: "Is the Music Man revival a Roundabout revival or not? If it isn't, I could see Laura coming in to play Marian after Sutton leaves, kind of like the Benanti/Ambrose thing with My Fair Lady."

No, Not Roundabout. I don't think that Roundabout could afford Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. it's produced by Scott Rudin and directed by Jerry Zaks.

 

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 4/22/19 at 4:05pm

I wonder if Laura osnes would be a contender for that magic mike musical. As the female featured role. I know she’s choosie in those situations.
Or as meg in Hercules.

Does anyone think she could play Maria in a sound of music revival (it’s been a while since last on broadway )