It was pretty much music to our ears when reports surfaced yesterday that tween superstar Justin Bieber was the dream choice to play Marius in Toronto’s 2012 restaging of Les Misérables. Isn’t “A Heart Full of Love” basically a fancier version of “Baby”? Anyway, all of this got us thinking about other musical roles the Biebs could undertake. Here are our top choices.
Billy Elliot
An easy choice, considering Bieber’s dance moves can easily rival Billy’s. And personally, we would love to see Bieber in a tutu.
Oliver!
Picture this: Bieber and Ludacris, together again, as Oliver and Artful Dodger, belting out “Consider Yourself” with some serious beats. Yeah, we think it’s a pretty dope idea too.
Grease
Now that the Biebs is, you know, older (or at least one year away from the age of majority), he’s ready to be taken seriously as a grown up young adult. Landing the role of bad-boy heartthrob Danny Zuko just might do the trick, and if real-life girlfriend, Selena Gomez, was cast as good girl Sandy? Well, we got chills that are multiplyin’.
Annie
Okay, calm down, Bieberites: we know Annie is a girl, but let’s face it: Bieber can easily pass as a young woman on the best of days, and isn’t Usher kind of like a Daddy Warbucks figure? Although, we have to admit it would be tough to get through Bieber singing “Hard Knock Life.”
Bye Bye Birdie
This might be the role Justin Bieber was born to play. Modeled after the heartthrobs-of-heartthrobs, Elvis Presley, the role of rock-star-sensation, Conrad Birdie, with a legion of teenaged-girl fans, seems tailored made for Bieber. Plus, the “One Last Kiss” contest featured in the musical rings eerily similar to one Bieber has done before.