Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
#2Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 3:35pmAmazing! I can't wait to see this show!
#2Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 3:37pm
No Charley yet?
Stanley is a very interesting choice for Gussie.
Updated On: 10/11/11 at 03:37 PM
#3Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 4:22pmColin Donnell as Frank is perfection, so excited for this!
#4Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 4:23pm
Elizabeth Stanley is such a boring performer.
This whole cast is kind of a snooze-fest right now. Was this really the best they could muster up?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#5Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 4:29pmYikes. This was not what I was expecting at all.
gcal
Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#6Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 4:33pmBetsy will be an excellent Beth. Can't wait to hear her "Not a Day Goes By"!
#7Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 4:34pm
They seem too old to be young and too young to be old.
I liked it better when they were cast older to begin with (the cast led by John Rubenstein, Heather MacRae, Chip Zien, Marin Mazzie, and Mary Gordon Murray was my favorite).
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#8Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 4:35pmI don't know the show well enough to judge how appropriate any of this casting is, but I love everyone involved so far. I recently saw Stanley as Lucy in Jekyll and she was anything but boring- she ran away with the whole show.
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#9Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 4:53pmElizabeth Stanley was wonderful in the Chicago production of "Xanadu." I think she'll be great in the role.
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#10Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 5:18pm
They seem too old to be young and too young to be old.
I actually think casting older performers is the the most effective for this show. It's heart breaking and pathetic to see how their dreams and aspirations crumble; IMHO, watching younger cast members go through this usually never has the same effect.
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#11Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 5:28pmI think you can be flexible with the age of the actors playing the roles. Yes, perhaps older actors bring more gravitas, but the ages of these actors for the concert seem appropriate. Frank, Charlie and Mary are only about 40 (give or take) at the very beginning anyway.
#12Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 5:29pmBetsy Wolfe seems like more of a Mary and Celia Keenan-Bolger more of a Beth. Interesting.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#13Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 5:31pmPoor Leslie Kritzer.
#14Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 5:34pm^ She was a finalist for the role. For whatever reason, I guess they decided to go with CKB.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#15Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 6:46pmI know, Leslie just cannot catch a break.
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#16Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 9:41pmIt's so strange to me that her career has never... I guess, taken off? I mean, she gets work, but no huge star turn.
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#17Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 10:24pmHave there been no rumors about who's playing Charlie Kringas?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#18Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 10:44pmAfter Lapine eliminated Booby S. he had two excellent finalists for Charley, then he decided to keep looking, he's being a real nudge about it.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#19Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 10:48pmBooby S?
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#20Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 10:51pmBobby Steggert?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#21Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 11:06pm
I, for one, think that Elizabeth Stanley is a brilliant actress and I'm happy to see she's cast.
Re: Kritzer, It's not like Celia Keenan-Bolger has had a "star turn" either, and I think shes a better choice for the part here. Leslie'll get her due.
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#22Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 11:20pmI am not too familiar with Merrily, but I look forward to seeing Betsy Wolfe. She is a wonderful performer.
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#23Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 11:28pmNot too enthused about Elizabeth Stanley. Never really got her appeal, just a personal preference. I've grown to appreciate Celia, and I'm happy to see Colin in something new. Just keeping fingers crossed they can find a Charley that will tie everything together properly.
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#24Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley to Star in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at Encores!
Posted: 10/11/11 at 11:51pm
Josh Grisetti, Daniel Breaker, Jesse Eisenberg, Lin Manuel Miranda - trying to guess who finalists along with Bobby Steggart might be for Charley Kringas...
Updated On: 10/11/11 at 11:51 PM
