Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Simba and Timon Together again!

Maybe I'll finally get to see Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick on stage together...

I've always regretted that I wasn't able to scrape together the clams to see this dynamic duo in The Producers, during their original run or during their very expensive comeback run.

Now I've read in this article in Playbill that the Broadway revival of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, starring the golden duo of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, will begin previews on October 4 at the Brooks Atkinson. Although Nathan will play Oscar and Mathew will play Felix, they plan to switch roles occasionally, which is pretty kewl.

The only time I've enjoyed the two of them performing together was in The Lion King movie, with Nathan voicing Timon and Matthew voicing the grown Simba. (And yes, I am on a first-name basis with both of them...)


2 Comments:

It was Ernie Sabella who played Pumba in "The Lion King", not Matthew Broderick.

Just a clarification.

I LOVE this blog.

uniongrrl
Yes, that's right. He played Pumba to Nathan's Timon. But Mathew played Simba, grown up.

Also - I saw Ernie and Nathan together on stage in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. When I closed my eyes it was like listening to Timon and Pumba up there!

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