Playbill.com polled our readers via Facebook and Twitter. Their responses follow:
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| Kristin Chenoweth |
Jay Goldsworthy: Kristen Chenoweth.
Kloe James: Kristin Chenoweth would be AMAZING!
Jennifer Wilkins: Kristin Chenoweth in Goldie role
A Tony Award winner for her performance as Sally Brown in the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, stage and screen star Kristin Chenoweth is also known for originating the role of Glinda in the international hit musical Wicked. She is set to return to Broadway in 2015 in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of On Twentieth Century opposite Tony nominee Peter Gallagher.
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| Megan Hilty | ||
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Shannen Banzhoff: Megan Hilty was my first thought
Cherish Angelica: Megan Hilty, Megan Hilty, Megan Hilty!
A Drama Desk Award nominee for her performance in 9 to 5, Megan Hilty has also been seen in Wicked as well as on the NBC television series "Smash."
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| Sherie Rene Scott | ||
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Ben Rimalower: Sherie Rene Scott
Gaspar Marino: Sherie Renee Scott?
@BrunoGabs: @playbill Sherie Renee Scott!
@AndrewRyHolder: @playbill SHERIE!
Sherie Rene Scott, who made her Broadway debut in 1993 as Sally Simpson in The Who's Tommy, was Tony-nominated for her performances in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Everyday Rapture. Scott is a Clarence Derwent Award winner for Most Promising Female Actress for her performance as Amneris in Aida.
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| Laura Benanti |
@TarrynNSteyn: @playbill I think @LauraBenanti would make a great Elise Elliot!
A Tony Award winner for the 2008 revival of Gypsy, Benanti has been seen on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Wedding Singer and the 2002 revival of Into the Woods. She also starred as Baroness Elsa Schräder in the NBC live television broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
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| Stephanie J. Block |
Block made her Broadway debut as Liza Minnelli in The Boy from Oz, opposite Hugh Jackman. She received a Tony nomination for her performance in the title role of the 2012 revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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| Annaleigh Ashford |
Ashford originated the role of Lauren in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She was also seen in the original cast of Legally Blonde as Margot and is set to star in the 2015 revival of You Can't Take It With You with James Earl Jones.
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| Karen Ziemba |
Betsy Boo: Karen Ziemba!
Karen Ziemba is currently starring in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway as Eden Brent. She has also been seen on Broadway in A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Crazy for You and Contact, for which she won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
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| Allison Janney |
Noah Gipson: Allison Janney.
Four-time Emmy Award winner Allison Janney made her Broadway debut in the 1996 revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter. She has also been seen in the musical version of 9 to 5 and a revival of A View from the Bridge, both of which earned her Tony nominations.
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| Alice Ripley | ||
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Tracey Chiriboga: Alice Ripley
Lindsay NeptuneL: Alice Ripley!!
Hunter K.: Taylor Alice Ripley would be perfect!! I can just imagine her in the scene where she's screaming at her husband and therapist!
A Tony Award winner for her performance as Diana in the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, Ripley has also been seen in Les Miserables, Sunset Boulevard and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. She was also the first actress to be co-nominated, with Emily Skinner, for a Tony Award for her performance as conjoined twin Violet Hilton in Side Show.
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| Kerry Butler |
Kerry Butler made her Broadway debut in the original production of Les Miserables. She received a Tony nomination for her performance in the 2007 production of Xanadu, and also starred in the original Broadway casts of Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors and Catch Me If You Can.
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| Joanna Gleason |
Joanna Gleason originated the role of the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She was also Tony-nominated for her performance in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
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| Lesli Margherita |
Alanna Perkovich-Smith: Lesli Margherita would be perfection in this role. Her voice, facial expressions and energy would definitely do Bette Midler justice!
Alison Loughlin: Lesli Margherita
Lesli Margherita made her Broadway debut in Matilda The Musical, a performance that earned her an Astaire Award nomination for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show. She is a Laurence Olivier Award winner for her performance as Inez in the West End production of Zorro.
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| Emily Skinner |
Emily Skinner was Tony-nominated, alongside Alice Ripley, for her performance as conjoined twin Daisy Hilton in Side Show. She has also been seen in Jekyll & Hyde, The Full Monty and Billy Elliot: The Musical.
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| Bette Midler in I'll Eat You Last. | ||
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Nathan Bottorff: Bette Midler! It's a no brainer!
Mike Canestraro: Bette Midler.
David Bowen: Bette could still play that part!
@scottyspec: @playbill how about @BetteMidler?
Bette Midler was most recently seen on Broadway in the one-woman show I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, for which she received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. She also received a Special Tony Award in 1974.
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| Mary Testa | ||
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Noël Soisson: I second Mary Testa
@kingduncan42: @playbill The only real answer is Mary Testa, right?
A two-time Tony nominee, Mary Testa was most recently seen in the Broadway company of Wicked. She has also been seen on Broadway in Guys and Dolls, Barnum, Xanadu and 42nd Street.
