I would like to see Jimmy Saville give it a go. This might rebound on me - it could be excruciating for some of the right reasons.
I would also like to see Ronan Keating’s reviews.
Welcome to the boards, harrylentil. We have a forum specifically for discussion of the arts. I’ll move this thread there.
Moved from IMHO to CS.
Not miscast, but I saw Vanessa Redgrave play Prospero at the Globe on the South Bank, and she was terrific (though she almost stepped on my hand).
Most comically miscast I can possibly come up with (while still remaining just maybe that tiny bit conceivable) would have to be Adam Savage from Mythbusters.
Doing his lateral lisp through the whole thing…
Now my charmsh are all o’ertshrown,
And what shtrength I have’sh mine own,
Whicsh isch mosht faint: now, 'tisch true,
I muscht be here confined by you…
The name that popped into my mind when I read the OP was Rodney Dangerfield.
If I have to go with the living:
James Caan as Prospero
Jon Cleese as Ariel
Eric Idle as Caliban
Hugh Laurie as Ferdinand
Drew Barrymore as Miranda
Billy Cyrstal as the Boatswain
William Peterson as Stephano the drunken butler
Bwahaha–I’d pay to see that, Revedge.
In my production, Paully Shore shall play Prospero.
Marlon Brando (in some more or less resurrected form) shall do Ariel.