GROFF is out tonight - Oops...wrong!
GROFF is out tonight - Oops...wrong!
#1GROFF is out tonight - Oops...wrong!
Posted: 12/15/22 at 8:36pm
Anybody know why?
OOPS - My mistake. Franklin Shepard JR’s alternate was on
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
#2GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 9:00pm
Still in shock over the Square One announcement hoax.
#3GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 9:01pm
What?!?!?
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.
halfhourcheckwithmerman
Stand-by Joined: 9/25/22
#4GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 9:07pm
ACL2006 said: "What?!?!?"
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Sorry-Sondheims-SQUARE-ONE-is-Not-Coming-to-Broadway-20221215
(Don't know anything about Groff)
"I feel safe with you, and complete with you / I'm always finding money in the street with you."
-Sheldon Harnick
#5GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 9:15pm
halfhourcheckwithmerman said: "ACL2006 said: "What?!?!?"
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Sorry-Sondheims-SQUARE-ONE-is-Not-Coming-to-Broadway-20221215
(Don't know anything about Groff)"
I'm assuming this is in regards to MERRILY. Is is COVID? It's a one week run, suck it up!!
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.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#7GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 9:25pm
ACL2006 said: "halfhourcheckwithmerman said: "ACL2006 said: "What?!?!?"
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Sorry-Sondheims-SQUARE-ONE-is-Not-Coming-to-Broadway-20221215
(Don't know anything about Groff)"
I'm assuming this is in regards to MERRILY. Is is COVID? It's a one week run, suck it up!!"
One week? Its running for two months...its started performances around Thanksgiving and going thru 1/22.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#8GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 9:26pm
steven22 said: "Who is on? Corey Mach?"
He's the only u/s for Groff.
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.
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#9GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 9:38pm
ACL2006 said: "halfhourcheckwithmerman said: "ACL2006 said: "What?!?!?"
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Sorry-Sondheims-SQUARE-ONE-is-Not-Coming-to-Broadway-20221215
(Don't know anything about Groff)"
I'm assuming this is in regards to MERRILY. Is is COVID? It's a one week run, suck it up!!"
Wtf are you talking about, it isn’t a one week run.
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#11GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 11:26pm
Willing to bet the OP saw the signs in the theater saying
AT THIS PERFORMANCE Franklin Shepard, JR WILL BE PLAYED BY...
Which references the child actor playing Franklin's son, Frankie, and NOT Groff who plays Franklin Shephard, Sr. It confuses a lot of people.
#12GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 11:27pm
My friend went tonight and raved but didn't mention the absence. I'll follow up.
There's a little sign at the box office that indicates "At Tonight's Performance The Role of Franklin Shepard Jr will be played by..." And the GASPS from the queens picking up tickets echoed throughout the lobby. Folks thought that meant Jonathan Groff wasn't performing but of course it just indicates which child actor is on for the evening. It's possible someone mistook the sign for his absence.
Jesus saves. I spend.
#13GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/15/22 at 11:28pm
popular_elphie said: "Willing to bet the OP saw the signs in the theater saying
AT THIS PERFORMANCE Franklin Shepard, JR WILL BE PLAYED BY...
Which references the child actor playing Franklin's son, Frankie, and NOT Groff who plays Franklin Shephard, Sr. It confuses a lot of people."
Ahhhhh,,,,,,,thanks.......YAY!
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#14GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/16/22 at 12:06am
They should change that sign to say “Frankie” because it’s very confusing . There were multiple gasps and then the box office people saying “no that’s not Jonathan Groff”
52889j
Featured Actor Joined: 12/8/15
#15GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/16/22 at 4:20pm
raddersons said: "They should change that sign to say “Frankie” because it’s very confusing . There were multiple gasps and then the box office people saying “no that’s not Jonathan Groff”"
The sign has the children's headshots on it.
#16GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/16/22 at 6:55pm
Was Jonathan Groff in tonight, Friday, Dec 16... and potentially in the show on the weekend? My tickets are for Saturday Dec 17 matinee. Fingers crossed.
#17GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/17/22 at 1:03am
StageDoor3 said: "Was Jonathan Groff in tonight, Friday, Dec 16... and potentially in the show on the weekend? My tickets are for Saturday Dec 17 matinee. Fingers crossed."
Yes, he was in on Friday night. The couple in front of me looked at the slip in the program announcing who was on as Frank Jr. and thought it meant Jonathan was out, too.
#18GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/17/22 at 7:03am
Can we edit the subject title so we don't mislead? Seems unfair if people read the subject to think Groff is missing performance when he isn't. Between Square One and this that is enough Sondheim fake news for one day!
"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
#19GROFF is out tonight
Posted: 12/17/22 at 6:09pm
binau said: "Can we edit the subject title so we don't mislead? Seems unfair if people read the subject to think Groff is missing performance when he isn't. Between Square One and this that is enough Sondheim fake news for one day!"
Done.
