What If Britney Spears Starred in Sweet Charity? 10 "What If" Exciting Castings 

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Dream-casting Broadway productions is a national pastime of theatre lovers. Choosing the actors for the next revival or new production is how we entertain ourselves waiting for the train, sitting in class or while perusing the online message boards. But who knows what might have been if some of our most famous stars had actually taken their Broadway bows with productions that fell through?

Half the fun of being a Broadway fan (theatre nerd, drama dork, show queen, musical maven, Broadway baby, however you identify) is seeing shows and talking about them. Another favorite hobby, though, is anticipating shows (and talking about them). Just as sports fans have fantasy football, we thespians love to debate and handicap the coming season.

I\'ve already come to blows with three close friends over the 2016 Best Musical Tony and the 2015 nominations haven\'t been announced yet. Even hypothetical shows inspire great passion. In high school math classes, I used to doodle dream casts for shows: Betty Buckley in Annie Get Your Gun, Mandy and Bernadette in Sweeney Todd, that kind of thing. Of course, part of the heartbreak of the Rialto is the shows that get announced and then don\'t happen, or they happen, but not with the star you were promised.

Click through to read my selections for the Top Ten "What Ifs" from Broadway History.

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