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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowLast week, I offered tickets to see the April 24 one-night-only Patti LuPone concert at Clowes Memorial Hall. She’ll be performing her “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda” show, which includes songs from shows she coulda, woulda and sometimes shoulda been a part of. In that spirit, I asked those who entered the contest to pick an actor or singer and suggest a song, show, film or whatever that he or she shoulda been in but wasn’t. Here are some of the more interesting responses:
Wynonna Judd in “Annie Get Your Gun.” (Jerlyn Southwick)
Bill Murray in “Laverne and Shirley.” (Tyler Koontz)
Beyonce as Sandy in “Grease.” “Maybe it’s not too late…” (Amy Johnson)
Patti LuPone as Velma in “Chicago.” (Florrie Kichler)
Sir Laurence Olivier in “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” (Dave Goff)
Bette Midler in “Sister Act.” (Linda Broadfoot)
Robert Downey Jr. in “The Music Man.” (Steve Smith)
“My brother (Douglas Crawford, equity actor) should have been Marius in ‘Les Miserables.’ He did perform on Broadway in ‘Grease’ and recently in the National Tour of ‘Jersey Boys.’ I know, shameless plug, but I’m a proud sister.” (Pamela Elliot)
“Jeremy Pivan should have been in ‘Speed the Plow’… to the end.” (Blake Jeffrey)
“How about couldn’ta, shouldn’ta, wouldn’ta. That would be Pierce Brosnan in “Mamma Mia! … ouch.” (John Lindstrom)
“Nadya Suleman should have been the mother in the TV series ‘Eight is Enough.'” (Larry Cohen)
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