I'll be over here, squeeing

[selenak]

For anyone who hasn't already watched it, here's a divine birthday gift for Stephen Sondheim, courtesy of Christine Baranski, Audra McDonald and Meryl Streep:

Watch on YouTube

And there's a multipart Sandman audio adaption coming, starting in July, which I hadn't heard about before, and which, forgive the inevitable pun, looks like it has a dream cast - I think my favourite choices so far are Miriam Margolyes as Despair, Joanne Lumley as Lady Johanna Constantine (!!!! I love her! I mean, I'm also cool with Taron Egerton as John Constantine, but Johanna is my fave Constantine bar none), and Andy Serkis as Matthew the Raven. (Of course!) Arthur Darvill, Rory himself, is Shakespeare, while Michael Sheen is Lucifer. (Which means we will finally get Lucifer as written in the comics. No offense to Tom Ellis. But it's a completely different character. Also go Sheen for playing another (fallen) Angel as written by Neil Gaiman.) Morpheus himself is James MacAvoy, which would not work for me in a visual format, but audio-wise, I'm cool with it. In general I think an audio adaption should work perfectly since it doesn't have to blow a budget in special effects.

Comments

[kore]

//screams at both pieces of news

DARVILL AS SHAKESPEARE, oh my heart

[selenak]

IKR! Talk About perfect casting. Am looking forward for him playing thoses meta scenes about storytelling with MacAvoy as Morpheus.

[kore]

I got a little tired of MacAvoy's face, but he has a beautiful voice! I also think I enjoy full cast sound dramatic adaptions of books over filmed ones. They still give my imagination and book head-pictures room to breathe.

[musesfool]

Oh, that's a cool cast, and that video is amazing.

[selenak]

Isn't it just?

[princessofgeeks]

wow!

for Sandman I will dip a toe into audio.

With Audible would it be like a podcast? Do you download it like an ebook and listen on your phone? How does that work?

[selenak]

You need an Audible app, but if you have one, you can hear it on whatever device you want as long as it has the app -phone, iPad, Computer...

[linaerys]

Michael Sheen as Lucifer? ...I actually love it.

(And I say this as a huge fan of that character in the Sandman comics and the Mike Carey series, who hasn't seen the TV show.)

[selenak]

The tv is amusing as its own thing, but it has really very little to do with Lucifer in the Sandman Comics and the Mike Carey series beyond sharing the premise that he quit hell and owns a night club in Los Angeles where he plays the piano at times. I'm really looking Forward to hear Michael Sheen in the role!

[lynnenne]

That was pretty great. :)

[selenak]

I thought so, which is why I had to share. :)

[iberiandoctor]

OMG. Talk about a dream cast, indeed! I am really stoked for this, especially re: Darvill and Sheen. IA Macavoy wouldn't work visually for Dream, but he has a lovely voice and IMO is a really fine actor - recently watched him in the Jamie Lloyd Cyrano and he blew my socks off (am so nominating it for this year's Yuletide!).

[iberiandoctor]

Plus, Audra McDonald, marry me <3 <3

[selenak]

She's Wonderful! And I agree about James MacAvoy being a fine actor and having a lovely voice. In a medium where it doesn't matter what he looks like, he should be great in the role!

[shadowkat]

I'm curious as to why they didn't make the Sandman audio adaptation animated? I know a Sandman series was in the works - so maybe they shifted it to audio due to well..the current situation?

Michael Sheen as Lucifer is an interesting choice - since we don't see him, it won't matter. But he can most definitely due the vocalization well.