ROMY WHITE IS HEADED TO BROADWAY!!!!!!!!!

[Jordan Catalano]

With Chazz Palminteri and Jeremy Shamos. I haven't been this excited in years.

[Wynbish]

I thought you meant Romy and Michelle, then I was going to make some sub-par joke about hoping Alan Cumming is in it.

Damn.

But YAY! This sounds good!

[Jordan Catalano]

Uh, YES ROMY & MICHELE! MIRA SORVINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wynbish]

I thought you meant a stage version of Romy and Michelle.

[tazber]

He did mean Romy and Michelle!

I will always think of her as Aphrodite from Mighty Aphrodite.

ETA: I just got that you thought jordy was referring to a stage version of Romy and Michelle, Wynbish.

That would be AMAAAAZING!

ETA2: we posted at the same time.

[Wynbish]

[Jordan Catalano]

That hurt.

But it looked really good.

[followspot]

If Romy were coming to Broadway, it wouldn't be her first time on stage. She and Michele were born as minor characters in Robin Schiff's stage play LADIES' ROOM. The two were such a hit with audiences that Schiff spun them off into the screenplay for ROMY & MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION.

[Jordan Catalano]

I really pray that R&M musical never happens.

[Wynbish]

What about a straight play?

[Jordan Catalano]

No. Why's the point? Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow ARE Romy and Michele. Anything else will be a second rate parody of them.

Unless the two of them do it, I don't see there being any reason to do it.

[Wynbish]

They should do it! Mira, Lisa, Alan, Janeane, all of 'em. It could be like a benefit.

[Jordan Catalano]

I'd sell everything I own to see that.

[japhun2]

Romy and Michele??? That would be amazing! Seriously??

[nasty_khakis]

Intersting, followspot, I've heard Lisa Kudrow say they were characters in a play (based off a Groundlings sketch Kudrow did), then a sitcom pilot, then based off Kudrow's fame from Friends she got the movie made.

Such a wildly funny movie/performances all around.

[tazber]

Yea, that's really interesting followspot. I had no idea R&M was a spin-off.

[After Eight]

I guess it's asking too much to expect one to actually list a performer's real name in the title of a thread.

So that, like, everyone would know who one is talking about.

[Jordan Catalano]

I guess it's asking too much to expect After8 to actually just disappear from a thread.

So that, like, everyone would know they no longer have to suffer his inane posts.
Or like, whatever.

[WhizzerMarvin TrinaJasonMendel]

I love Romy & Michelle, but Sorvino is the best in Mighty Aphrodite! Such an awesome performance.

I haven't seen it yet, but she is in Union Square with Tammy Blanchard, Patti LuPone and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Did this come and go from theaters already?

[tazber]

I think it was dropped into 2 or 3 theaters in July. I'm not sure if that was it or if it's still platforming.

[followspot]

@nasty_khakis/tazber — I actually saw LADIES' ROOM in L.A. back in the day, and Kudrow is the thing I most remember about it. I don't know who played Michele (I have the program somewhere in storage, but... ugh), but she was short, round, and brunette — not at all a Mira Sorvino type in looks — but also hilarious. The entire play took place in the ladies restroom of a club, with various characters — Romy and Michele among them — drifting in and out.

Kudrow's work in the play (and yes, with The Groundlings) helped get her the Friends gig, and she then used her popularity there to develop Romy and Michele into a feature film opportunity.

[MrMidwest]

Sorvino is iffy in spots in Aphrodite. I think Romy is her best overall performance. Her work in dramas is usually pretty lifeless. I did think Mimic was fun.

[MrMidwest]

Mira's best acting evarrrr 3:30 to 4:05

[ClydeBarrow]

And now Cher is on her way too! How thrilling!
CHER ON BROADWAY!

[Jordan Catalano]

I'm glad she's coming back so soon!!!!!!

[Rodgerdodger]

One of my all-time favorite comfort food films, and one that gets the Dodgers around the TV. Brother Dodger took last year's reunion photo from Entertainment Weekly and framed it.

Is LADIES ROOM available for purchase from DPS, or French, etc.? Sounds like something that might be up my alley?