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That's About As Likely to Happen As George Bernard Shaw Writing AWAKE AND SING

Flipping the script on miscast actors - you know, John Gielgud as Stanley Kowalski - let's take playwrights this time, as GBS writing Awake and Sing. Here's some more.....That's about as like to happen as Luigi Pirandello writing THE ODD COUPLE or Eugene O'Neill writing the book and lyrics for THE PAJAMA GAME.....about as likely to happen as Jean Genet writing the screenplay for THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE

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by Anonymousreply 15May 10, 2025 2:48 PM

As likely to happen as Neil Simon writing Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolfe.

by Anonymousreply 1May 9, 2025 1:13 AM

That's about as likely to happen as Sartre writing the stage adaptation of "It's a Wonderful Life."

by Anonymousreply 2May 9, 2025 1:53 AM

That's about as likely to happen as Billy Wilder writing "Forrest Gump."

by Anonymousreply 3May 9, 2025 2:29 AM

... about as likely as O'Neill writing a gentle comedy set in a sea-side Connecticut town on the Fourth of July.

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by Anonymousreply 4May 9, 2025 3:21 AM

about as likely to happen as T.S. Eliot writng HURLEYBURLEY

by Anonymousreply 5May 9, 2025 11:35 PM

........likely to happen as Geo S. Kaufman writing AMERICAN BUFFALO

by Anonymousreply 6May 9, 2025 11:36 PM

....likely to happen as Noel Coward wring Waiting for Godot

by Anonymousreply 7May 9, 2025 11:37 PM

.....likely to happen as Lillian Hellman writing the screenplay for The Green Bertets

by Anonymousreply 8May 9, 2025 11:40 PM

......likely to happen as Jez Butterworth writng the book and lyrics to Bye Bye Birdie

by Anonymousreply 9May 9, 2025 11:44 PM

So I take it the point of this would be to be simultaneously queeny, esoteric, and unfunny?

by Anonymousreply 10May 9, 2025 11:45 PM

...likely to happen as Dion Boucicault writing the screenplay for On The Waterfront

by Anonymousreply 11May 9, 2025 11:50 PM

about as likely as Edward Albee adapting The Sound of Music

by Anonymousreply 12May 9, 2025 11:55 PM

R10 evidences R10's own premise.

It's a terrible topic, unworkable to riff on. That's what the posters have demonstrated. Imagine if the OP was serious.

This thread not lingering in death?

That's About As Likely to Happen As Michael Bennet Returning to Write Chorus Line II: The New Breed.

See?

by Anonymousreply 13May 10, 2025 12:42 AM

About as likely to happen as TS Eliot writing an Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical.

Or ceasing to spin in his grave.

by Anonymousreply 14May 10, 2025 1:33 PM

As likely as Tennessee playing Blanche or Truman playing Holly.

But surely, that's why both roles were written?

by Anonymousreply 15May 10, 2025 2:48 PM
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