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Beth Leavel to Join YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN?
#25re: Beth Leavel to Join YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN?
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:05pm
I wonder if Leavel agreed to work for cheap?
According to the Reidel article, they told the leads to either take a 50% paycut, or leave the cast. I can't imagine Bart, Hensley, or Fitzgerald would accept such a drastic paycut, considering two of them are Tony winners.
#26re: Beth Leavel to Join YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN?
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:06pmAll three of them have kids to support, so I'm sure they'll stick around even with the pay cut.
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#27re: Beth Leavel to Join YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN?
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:13pmNow, if they could only get Douglas Sills to take over for Bart, it MIGHT be worth seeing again.
#29Beth Leavel to Join a lousy show
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:32pmI love Beth Leavel - but I can't think of a single reason to see that mess of a show again.
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#30re: Beth Leavel to Join YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN?
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:40pm
I think Beth Leavel is a wonderful performer. I haven't seen YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - it just doesn't look like something I'd really enjoy. But it saddens me to see some of these comments - as if replacing someone on Broadway is the death knell for a person's career. Once upon a time there were lots of new shows going up on Broadway. That number is not so big anymore. If Beth Leavel has a chance to be in a Broadway show and wants to take it then I say more power to her! I don't doubt there are Beth Leavel fans out there that will go to the show just to see her in it.
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#31Beth Leavel to Join a lousy show
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:40pm
I'll definitely go back to see the show with Leavel...very odd casting but I'm sure she'll pull it off.
I have faith in her.
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#32Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:41pm
I bet she'll be absolutely fantastic! I think Beth is the perfect choice.
Albeit, it is odd that she'd do a replacement role... but as someone said: "Girl's gotta eat!"
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#34Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 1:28pmIt is one of the best roles in the show. Iconic. And Leavel with surely score with "He Was My Boyfriend". Perhaps, she could care less about career moves and just wants to play a great role where the show isn't on her shoulders.
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#35Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 1:36pmI'll probably see the show a second time for Beth Leavel, but I wish she was taking over the Megan Mullally role. That would get me back to see the show a lot faster.
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#36Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 5:16pm
Or maybe she is just killin' time till "Dancing in the Dark" finds its theatre?
I agree that i would love to see Leavel as Elizabeth.
#39Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 6:30pmDamn, that means she probably won't be doing Billy Elliot
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#40Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 6:39pm
But it saddens me to see some of these comments - as if replacing someone on Broadway is the death knell for a person's career.
I think people mean that Young Frank. is a career killer...
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#41Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 6:43pmYoung Frankenstein isn't the best show but it's not as bad as everyone is making it out to be, and i definatly don't think it's a career killer, for an example Sutton Foster already has another leading role in Shrek
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#42Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 7:53pmBeth Leavel will be AMAZING in anything that she will ever do. I think its good how she did the opposite of what everybody else thought and did somthing different. She is going to be FANTASTIC and I cant imagine how it would do anything bad to her career.
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#43Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:17pmI feel so sorry for Beth. She's too amazing a performer to be stuck in this truly bad show. She deserves better.
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Broadway Star Joined: 3/25/04
#44Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:18pmI really like this show---and I just ordered tix to see (hopefully), both Beth and Megan (before she's scheduled to leave). I think Beth will make a great Frau B. (maybe they'll put a drink in her hand---she plays a great drunk!)
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#45Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:29amI'm sure she wouldn't have done it if she didn't want to. You guys are acting like she's been forced to do this show. It's her career. I'm sure she could do something else, but the fact is, it's a leading role in a well-known stage musical on Broadway.
#46Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:31amhey andrea martin is doing the part she's a Broadway legend, well at least I think so
#47Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:51amI'm sure she'll be great in it and it's possible that she won't be there for long before either Dancing In the Dark comes to Broadway or another show comes along that she'll be in.
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#48Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:38am
This is not a "career killer." It certainly makes ME want to see the show again.
I'm sure it's temporary. Beth is much "in-demand" these days.
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#49Beth Leavel to Join YF
Posted: 6/24/08 at 4:15am
Well, this most certainly means that Leavel is not going to be in BILLY ELLIOT as everybody else has stated. I do wonder how long she is contracted with the show though.
Although I prefer Andrea Martin, I do think that she will be a hoot in the show. Now if only the rest of the replacement cast were in the same caliber as Leavel...that would have been fantastic.
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