Pippin cast changes?
Pippin cast changes?
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#1Pippin cast changes?
Posted: 2/16/14 at 11:14am
Hey all
so I know Annie Potts just started off in Pippin but what about the other principle cast (Patina, Rachel, Charlotte, Terrence, Matthew) I am sure we would have heard by now being that we are close to a month a way from the show being on broadway for a year. also a lot of the acrobatics is probably hard to learn. will Patina extend cause she won the tony?
thanks!!
Updated On: 2/16/14 at 11:14 AM
#2Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/16/14 at 11:21amInterested to know this as well, as I'm seeing it in early March. My understanding is that none of this info is public yet, but we should find out soon. Updated On: 2/16/14 at 11:21 AM
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#2Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/16/14 at 12:14pmI am curious too. I heard that there would be some changes in March so we'll see if that's true/if there's an announcement coming soon.
Stevie72
Stand-by Joined: 1/19/14
#3Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 1:33amI would be really happy for a none big name to enter the show but the annoying and money making producers will have different ideas.
chrisampm2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/26/07
#4Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 2:22amSure. The "annoying and money-making producers" who produced this Tony winning revival and have so far put in nothing but phenomenal performers like Christopher Sieber, Tovah Feldshuh, and Annie Potts.
#5Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 2:55amOh those annoying money making producers. Why can't they just do it for the art? Have they no souls?
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#6Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 7:48amI could see Krystal Joy Brown as the Leading Player and Jessica Lea Goldyn as Fastrada!
#7Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 2:15pmJessica Lee Goldyn as Fastrada? She's not even 30.
"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
#8Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 2:31pmShe seems to enjoy working on Broadway, Fantasia as The Leading Player in the future?
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#9Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 2:42pmFantasia doesn't have the voice compared to Patina Miller.
TommyFlanagan4
Swing Joined: 11/20/13
ElphabaGoodman
Broadway Star Joined: 4/2/10
#11Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 5:24pmI think Kendra Kassebaum would be a great choice for Catherine.
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#12Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 5:27pmCatherine is a lot like Glinda in terms of humor so yes I could see Kendra as that role!
#13Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 5:57pm
Nicole Scherzinger was a false report, but she would be wonderful.
I would LOVE to see what Naya Rivera could do in the role, since her work with Ryan Murphy has hinted at her talent without really letting it out to shine. (Do you think they will EXCLUSIVELY look to non-white female actors for the role, or can it be cast any way? Pink would be an interesting Leading Player if they don't stick to people of color- she is pretty well-versed in the kind of aerial stunts the Leading Player does.)
#15Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 6:19pmBebe Neuwirth has a hip condition and could not do the dancing and stunts that Fastrada performs.
#16Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/17/14 at 9:05pmNeuwirth just turned 55 also. Maybe Berthe??
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#17Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/18/14 at 11:15am
Here's my wish list for replacements:
Pippin- Johnathan Groff
Charles- Norbert Leo Butz/Robert Cuccioli
Fastrada- Rachelle Rak
Catherine- Laura Benanti
Leading Player- Pink/Raul Esparza
Berthe- Jan Maxwell
Updated On: 2/18/14 at 11:15 AM
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#18Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/18/14 at 11:33am
Neuwirth can't play Berthe for the same reason she can't play Fastrada-too much of a risk with the hip.
I think Robert Cuccioli as Charles would be great
Jonathan Groff seems like he might be a little mature to play Pippin-I think part of the character's charm should be his innocence
Berthe has been played by the 60+ crowd thus far, I'm guessing they're trying to keep it that way (in my heart of hearts I'd love to see Bernadette do it)
Rachelle Rak as Fastrada=brilliant
Leading Player-no clue (wish Scherzinger had turned out to be true because I think she'd be pretty amazing)
Catherine-A former Glinda (someone on the 'older end' of the spectrum given what they've done with the production would be most appropriate)
OR-how about Kacie Sheik as Catherine?? She's very funny and I could see it working.
Updated On: 2/18/14 at 11:33 AM
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#19Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/18/14 at 11:48am
ANNALEIGH ASHFORD= Catherine
Updated On: 2/18/14 at 11:48 AM
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#20Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/18/14 at 11:55amAnnaleigh=too young given what they do with the script
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#23Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/18/14 at 12:50pmA while ago I thought Jane Krakowski would make a great Catherine.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#24Pippin cast changes
Posted: 2/18/14 at 12:52pmShe's too big of a name to consider being a replacement I think.
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