A post I'm sure you all care about re: starkid little shop
LONG TALKS W KRISTEN ON THE TWEETER ABOUT THIS it's so hard because like, there are some pretty straightforward predictable castings that ARE straightforward and predictable BECAUSE they'd be really good. but also like, why take the boring route??? like joe walker batman levels of predictable. snoozeville
basically here's what I know to be certain: dylan IS audrey II and britney IS the solo in skid row. jaime on you never know is also rly cute. beyond that it kind of all depends on who seymour is?? because different seymours need different dynamics w audrey, orin and mushnik that affect like the whole fuckin thing
I think here was my original thought long ago when this first started being a thing in my brain
seymour - aj
audrey - meredith
orin - joey (or, in my wildest dreams, pomme)
mushnik - nick strauss
this is a really good solid configuration and I see nothing wrong with it. BUT. aj is proper theatre famous now?? so kind of like, maybe not............ which leads us to brosenthal as seymour being the next most obvious choice. I think p much the only people I can see as seymour are class of '11 bros or thereabouts. but do I like meredith with brosenthal as romantic leads or is that weird? at what point do you change audreys?
also, this was all pre-jeff. jeff is the O B V I O U S choice for orin, and I think, REALISTICALLY, if starkid were ACTUALLY doing it, they'd cast him. it's his character archetype that he plays a lot PLUS the vocals are EXACTLY his vocal range which would be great. like honestly I'd love to just watch his performance of it's just the gas isolated out of context and not necessarily the whole show omg. but JEFF has such great rapport with RACHAEL that I think at that point rachael would need to be audrey?? even though I KNOW meredith said it's her ~dream role or whatever but I honestly can't see jeff and meredith as a thing. so then who's the rachael seymour?? ROBERT???? again, in the version of this that actually potentially happens in the real world, this seems like a real decision starkid would make. plus I know robert genuinely wants to play seymour almost as much as I do so like, shrugsville
but here's the thing: kristen likes ROBERT as ORIN. which like. how fun and wacky would that be!!!! I especially love him in the context of "the actor who plays orin also plays every random person in the meek shall inherit" like I'm crackin up at him being the editor's wife. still can't decide who I like as seymour in THAT context though. brosenthal still??? I feel like they're almost a tiny bit too similar. but I have a hard time imagining anyone outside of brosenthal, aj, and maybe joey as seymour. EXCEPT
this occurred to me in the shower I was like LIAM WOULD BE THE MOST PRECIOUS??? and I LOVE liam and meredith as romantic leads together, like that's cute as shit. and I think literally any of our options for orin work with liam seymour. but where THIS one falls apart is mushnik - I don't think nick strauss could be mushnik to a liam seymour. I think it has to be dan. WHICH IS FIINNNNNE AND GREAT honestly one of the hardest casting decisions is which strauss to be mushnik because it's a role that's soooo well-suited to both of them. I think nick is more fun to have on mushnik and son but dan would be fucking great at a lot of the non-music scenes just being a deadpan asshole dad (like he is in real life oop). so liam and dan is like just great just freaking great
but again there's no real SOLID option for seymour because would liam even do the thing??? so we have like. AJ who's genuinely famous so it's hard. brosenthal who's an easy slightly less interesting choice and matches up weird with any of the audrey options. rob who's in fucking australia. liam who is questionable at best. and then
emily's wild-card scenarios, the first of which will honestly never occur and the second of which will LITERALLY NEVER OCCUR OUTSIDE OF MY BRAIN JUST HAVING FUN LITTLE DAYDREAMS
HA AH HA IT IS A JOKE. but omg the version of this show where marty is seymour??? this is not the starkid version I guess, it's the verse factory version or something. noah ginex audrey II puppet instead of nick lang audrey II puppet. BUT NA TU RA LLYYYYY in the world where marty is seymour, ali is audrey. they're downtown new york trash children in love, can you not just SEE marty's dumb MARTY FACE doing the sad "but then there's AU~DREY~" part of the meek shall inherit?? I think any of the orins would work with this combo, but jeff or joey best. god I wanna watch marty and joey do a thing. HOWEVER, this is the one context where I think maybe neither of the strausses for mushnik?? I'm thinking more like....nick gage??? THIS IS THE WACKY FANTASY VERSION I TOLD YOU but like having nick be so small compared to tall-ass gangly marty would just make this SO funny and I am really into having nick gage as mushnik at least once in these elaborate dreams of mine. the corey version is stupider than stupid and involves JAIME as audrey, the weirdest version yet, and dan as mushnik. and I think this is a great context for the robert orin. hehehe
(also I then went even further down the rabbit hole and started thinking about joey debettencourt as seymour but that's like, a real thing that might possibly happen in reality and I made myself stop before I cried)
TL;DR this is how my brain spent the entirety of the shower I took on wednesday night here I am world get on my level, here's the five best versions of this show - 1) instinctual, 2) after careful consideration, 3) realistically what would happen, 4) the verse factory alt version, 5) my wildest dreams:
seymour - aj/brosenthal
audrey - meredith
orin - joey/pomme
mushnik - nick strauss
audrey II - dylan
urchins - britney, jaime lyn, rachael
seymour - liam
audrey - meredith
orin - joey
mushnik - dan strauss
audrey II - dylan
urchins - britney, jaime lyn, rachael
seymour - robert
audrey - rachael
orin - jeff
mushnik - either strauss
audrey II - dylan
urchins - britney, jaime lyn, ali
seymour - marty
audrey - ali
orin - jeff/joey
mushnik - nick gage
audrey II - dylan
urchins - britney, jaime lyn, either sarah or sophie scanlon
seymour - corey
audrey - jaime lyn
orin - robert/joey
mushnik - dan
audrey II - dylan
urchins - britney, ali, rachael (or a scanlon sister too)
and now you know more than you ever wanted to know about me as a human being, goodbye