# Help me cast Blazing Saddles: The Musical

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 27, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252 "2003-01-27T16:02:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252/21 "2003-01-30T22:12:43Z")

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Jesse Ventura as Mongo

Lea Salonga as Miss Saigon

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252/22 "2003-01-31T01:29:21Z")

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Wait- much better choice than Gary Cole for The Waco Kid- and I know he can sing and does musicals-

Scott Bakula.

If you want to go younger, Eric McCormack.

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252/23 "2003-01-31T01:59:57Z")

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I’ve always said that _Blazing Saddles_ is a movie about geology.

After all, the opening line of the title song goes:  
_“Erode a blazing saddle…”_😉

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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252/24 "2003-01-31T03:04:55Z")

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Giants rookie tight end Jeremy Shockey was born to play Mongo.

Denzel Washington as the smooth, sophisticated Bart.

James Woods as Hedley Lamarr… but can he sing? (Maybe he could just sneer his way through it.)

Tim Robbins as the Waco Kid.

Parker Posey as Madeline Kahn (as Marlene Dietrich).

Who would play the racist old lady who has a change of heart and bakes Sheriff Bart a pie? How about a bit of stunt casting… Karen Grassle? (She played “Ma” Ingalls in the “Little House on the Prairie” series.) 🙂

[Whew! I’m… so… tired!]

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**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252/25 "2003-01-31T03:29:01Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Sampiro \*  
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> [Gary Cole](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cole,+Gary+(I)) as Waco
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He’d be greaaaat;)

Seriously, he seems pretty laid back, could be good in this part.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-cast-blazing-saddles-the-musical/151252/26 "2003-03-05T14:07:08Z")

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I just finished reading an article on [Hall-of-Famer Mike Webster](http://www.profootballhof.com/players/mainpage.cfm?cont_id=99958). His son Garrett would make a great Mongo. All 6-foot-9, 340 pounds of him.

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