The Casting Game: King Lear

Round one of the casting game is to take the show you’re working on and cast it with famous people, your “dream cast”.

 
King Lear - Vincent Price

Goneril - Bebe Neuwirth

Regan - Susan Sarandon

 
Cordelia - Christina Ricci

Albany - Kelsey Grammer

Cornwall - Barry Bostwick

Edmund - Brad Pitt

Edgar - Alfonso Freeman

Gloucester - Morgan Freeman

Kent - Bruce Willis

Fool - Johnny Depp

France - Kick Gurry

Oswald - David Hyde Pierce

Round two of the casting game is to take the show you’re working on and cast it with muppets. (The cast must include at least one human guest-star and must be at least half muppets.)

EDIT: 04/01/2008

I got it!  The main cast came together easily, but I was having trouble casting the Gloucester family.  At first I thought it would be funny to have Scooter play Gloucester. (I’ll let you figure our why.  It might take you a while, but the same joke works with his replacement.  You’ll get it.)  Then I picked Sam as the pretentious bastard and Sweetums as the sweet brother because I thought they were good types.  Better than that would be Scooter playing Edgar, and Skeeter playing Edmund.  She’s kind of the bastard muppet anyway…here’s the final cast:

King Lear - Peter Ustinov

Goneril - Miss Piggy

Regan - Janice

Cordelia - Prairie Dawn

Albany - Kermit

 
Cornwall - Gonzo

Edmund - Skeeter

Edgar - Scooter

Gloucester - Scooter

Kent - Michael Douglas

Fool - Fozzie

France - Guy Smiley

Oswald - Robin