Britney Spears at the VMA Awards/Wireimage.
Barry Weissler Exclusive:
Day 11
By Barry Weissler, Britney Hope Valentine
Tue Jan 29, 2008
Last year we were in talks with Britney Spears to star in Sweet Charity. In order to have a serious conversation about this, we had to fly her into New York. Flying Britney Spears into New York doesn’t mean just booking her a ticket. It means flying and accommodating her, two sets of parents, kids, nannies etc. So we talk, and I see she doesn’t have to play Charity Hope Valentine, she IS Charity Hope Valentine. She is a sweet girl who just wants love and keeps on picking the wrong guy. She is hopeful, sensitive, and still a kid trying very hard to grow up. At the end of the day she decided she wouldn’t do the show because it would mean being away from Kevin. Could you imagine Charity doing anything else?
Until tomorrow…
Broadway producers Barry & Fran Weissler are the recipients of five Tony Awards®. Their numerous Broadway credits include acclaimed productions Othello with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, My One and Only with Tommy Tune, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Kathleen Turner and Charles Durning, Gypsy with Tyne Daly, and the Tony Award-winning productions of Falsettos and Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters and Reba McEntire, among others. They are currently represented on Broadway – and across the globe -- with the international smash hit Chicago, which earned six 1997 Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival, as well as countless other awards in the U.S. and abroad.