If Shirley MacLaine were to return to Broadway...

[Playbilly]

...what role would you like to see her in?

[GavestonPS]

At 80 (MacLaine's 78 and I'm assuming the project will take a year or two to get off the ground)?

The old woman in ZORBA.

And whatever parts Angela Lansbury has left laying around.

[little_sally]

I'm still not over the fact she's not playing Violet in the August film.

[PalJoey]

In this life or in her next reincarnation?

[Caring Soul]

I'd love to see her onstage again. Can't someone write a musical adapted for her talents - she deserves a career capstone.

[best12bars]

I think she would have (or would?) make a wonderful Mme. Armfeldt.

[Jordan Catalano]

Not a musical but I'd love to see her in DOUBT.

[justoldbill]

"If My Friends Could See Me NOW!!!!!"

[somethingwicked]

...they'd never believe it.

[Jordan Catalano]

That's my favorite Kathie Lee Gifford song!!!

[GavestonPS]

I think she would have (or would?) make a wonderful Mme. Armfeldt.

I agree. And it's not obvious casting, but I think she would do it very well.

[3bluenight]

IIRC, most of her stage work was in musicals. I agree that Mme Armfeldt would be very interesting.

her carlotta would be plausible to me.

[MrMidwest]

[ClapYo'Hands]

"her carlotta would be plausible to me."

I thought you meant in Phantom!

[once a month]

She'd have the EXACT SAME show she had last time, and the time before that. "I love you all..."!

[jv92]

I think she'd be too old for Carlotta Campion at this point. Liza would seem more plausible, and even she's too old, probably.

[themysteriousgrowl]

"Whatever parts Angela Lansbury has left laying around" is the phrase of the day.

[henrikegerman]

The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Visit. The plays. She could certainly do Dear World and the musical version of The Visit as well. But I have no interest in seeing them.

[Gothampc]

She should have been given the revival of Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway.

[3bluenight]

^ instead of vanessa?

re carlotta: yes, from follies. not phantom. although she might make a fabulous page boy.

ann miller was an older carlotta wasn't she? - not that it would make the age work, but precedent has been set correct?

[Rodgerdodger]

Put me down in the Mme. Armfeldt camp. I'd also be curious to see her do Berthe.

[Gothampc]

"^ instead of vanessa?"

Yes, instead of Vanessa.

[GavestonPS]

"Whatever parts Angela Lansbury has left laying around" is the phrase of the day.

Thanks. I swear I didn't post it to be snotty. I was in the studio audience for a British TV show MacLaine did nine years ago and she was hysterical.

But I think we have to realistic: the number of roles appropriate for a woman of her age are few.

[Gothampc]

"But I think we have to realistic: the number of roles appropriate for a woman of her age are few."

Oh I don't agree with that. I think all the British dames are finding roles: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Helen Mirren, Geraldine McEwan, Joanna Lumley, Brenda Blethyn, Stephanie Cole, Pauline Collins, Julia McKenzie, Annette Crosbie, Penelope Wilton, Prunella Scales

[Playbilly]

I love Lansbury as much as anyone, but I would have liked to have seen MacLaine in THE BEST MAN.

Imagine if someone could get MacLaine and Beatty in a show together? Sell out. Not that I can think of anything off the top of my head that would be a showcase for them.

[ggersten]

She should have been in the revival of "On A Clear Day..."