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[Jon]

Dianne as Donna would be interesting as that would make her one of the youngest Donnas as they tend to be older but actually would still work.

[musicalgeek]

Dianne is 37 and the girl playing Sophie is 27. Anyone else see something wrong there?

[Titan]

As long as the girl looks 18 then its ok. However I do find it a bit of an odd casting choice both in terms of age and also voice

[Jon]

Sophie's meant to be 20 in the show so its possible to have a youngish Donna,

[Princeton]

Linzi Hateley was around 37 when she first played Donna and it didn't really matter that she didn't look old quite enough - indeed it looked odder that her best friends seemed to be at least 10-15 years older than her.  As for Diane's voice - although she has done her fair share of soprano/ingenue roles - she did play Grizabella in the tour of Cats - so she can belt like the best of them.

[popcultureboy]

Melissa Jacques was much younger than that when she was 2nd cover in the original (or was it first replacement?) cast, I think. Isn't the whole point that she had Sophie when she was really young herself?