Avoiding doing work that is due at 8 am tomorrow

[deelaundry]

So y'all know I'm weird, right? Some weird bullet points:

- We just saw Chicago last night, and I have a huge yen to see RSL in the Roxie Hart role. I think he would throw himself into it and have a grand ol' time. Maybe have the entire cast be opposite gender from their characters? Not with a wink and a nod, "hey we're in drag" mood (although that would be very fun as well) -- but completely serious, as if each actor is inhabiting a person of the opposite gender. Casting suggestions?

- Speaking of Wilson (oh, we weren't? I guess we weren't), Jane Adams, aka Ex-Mrs. Wilson #2, is going to be in a new HBO series called "Hung," about a regular guy who decides to become a male prostitute. LOL.

- Little Miss Thang at work, you best step off, or we are going to throw down! Most authorities on American English recommend the use of the serial comma, Bee-yotch, so you cut one more out of my communications drafts and I'm'a CUT YOU.

When linguistic prescriptivists battle, they battle, AMIRITE?

Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Don't you think he'd love the role? He'd dig into it and have a grand old time.

Jason Alexander from Seinfeld said once that he really wants to play Hamlet but the way he looks prevents people from casting him in the role. What I think would be interesting about casting all the roles with actors of the opposite gender would be trying to see them get beyond the body type we expect and represent the soul of the character.

I once saw a local production of Sound of Music with a multi-ethnic cast, and in which one of the high-level Nazis walked with crutches. At least for me, the physical appearance of the actors faded with the strength of their assertions of the characters' voice, expressions, and bearing.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

...okay, to be honest I can't imagine him taking said hypothetical role unless it was Truly Srs Business (which I imagine rules out the fishnets) but I'D LOVE IT XD

Yes, I guess acting is one of the last professions (modelling, too) where looks are legally regarded as part and parcel of the job requirement. And I think something like that'd be very interesting, but would probably be regarded very much as 'stunt casting'.

I've seen all-Asian productions of Cabaret and Little Shop of Horrors. Really, if the acting and the script are good, you get over the "novelty" very quickly.

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Yes, Jason Alexander can't play Hamlet because the script says Hamlet was tall and handsome. Oh, wait, it DOESN'T. It does say he was young, though. Actors playing Hamlet and Juliet when they're old enough to be the characters' parents is a personal beef of mine.
I was totally thinking of "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" when you were talking about commas.