Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL

Producers Scott Rudinand Roy Furmanannounced today Betsy Wolfe has departed the upcoming Broadway production of Carousel due to scheduling difficulties. Casting for the role of Carrie Pipperidge will be announced shortly.

Scott Rudinsaid, "We wish Betsy well and are enormously disappointed she won't be able to join the company at the Imperial."

Betsy Wolfe said, "I am so sad that I won't be able to join this beautiful production due to scheduling conflicts this fall, and wish the team all the best moving forward."

I'm hyperventilating

Why this fall, though?

Any chance she's coming to Broadway with frozen, instead of Caissie? Hmm...

She's so beautiful and so talented, but this is the second show she's been announced for and then replaced. I'm wondering if Hollywood isn't calling OR she thinks she'll have better prospects there.

NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I only hope Cinders is doing okay.

I've been saying she needs to be Elphaba in the wicked film....

i still don't get why it's scheduling conflicts for the fall. Carousel doesn't open until February. So is scott doing a big workshop for this? If so, wouldn't that mean Joshua Henry can't do that either?

The phrasing of scheduling conflicts "this fall" is so strange. Carousel ostensibly won't start rehearsals until January.

BETSEEEEH! NOOOOOO!!

I was hoping she would get her tony award from this. Now I'm full on sobbing. I love Betsy sooo much. Someone tell me it's going to be alright and she's still going to have a healthy career.

Eliza Doolittle, I wish.

She did recently take leave from Waitress for a night or two, and said on her Instagram that she has a big announcement that would be worth here being out for a few shows...maybe this has to do with it too.

And yes: weird she says this fall is the conflict, as we assume "Carousel" isn't rehearsing yet.