who's leaving in spring awakening?

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 10:53pm

i just saw a comment on a skylar astin message board about someone going to see the show in december, but was upset because he was leaving?

i know krysta rodriguez has left... but is anyone else supposed to leave? who and when? and has it been confirmed?

[jg4892]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 10:59pm

Gideon's leaving August 25th.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 11:07pm

Sklar Astin (and probably Phoebe Strole) is leaving at the end of the year to do Next To Normal (formally Feeling Electric) Off-Broadway in the spring.

Updated On: 7/30/07 at 11:07 PM

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 11:10pm

^ No they aren't.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 11:13pm

There's a Skylar message board?

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 11:30pm

antiandrewx, from Astin's own mouth last month: "I'm leaving for a few months at the end of the year to do Next To Normal Off-Broadway. If all goes well, I'll come back to the show once it finishes."

I assume Strole will also be apart of the Second Stage run as I was told they're retaining most (if not all) of the cast from the last workshop.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 11:33pm

Oh, okay. It's just that Pun (a producer - runs the Myspace) just posted today that Skylar and Phoebe will NOT be doing Next To Normal because it would be a severe pay cut and it wouldn't be worth it to leave.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 11:36pm

antiandrewx, things could have changed by now as Astin said that when they were probably in the midst of negotiation the contracts, but that was his stance at the time.

We'll see if it worked out or not.

Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:43am

as you've heard, rumors are flying about lea michele leaving for elphaba in wicked.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:44am

Over my dead body she'll get Elphaba.

[jg4892]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:47am

Haha, how do you plan on stopping her glinda? :)

Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:56am

I agree, I dont' want her to get it either, but she's definately famous enough for it.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:57am

I can't stop her. And I'm not going to try because she could totally take me!

[TapTapTapioca]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:59am

Is that the project that Anthony Rapp was also working on?

I have a friend who is going in for a callback tomorrow, but she is relatively young so I guess there is a part of a teenager in it.

Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:13am

What are you talking about??

Oh, Next to Normal. Yep, Senor Rapp is returning as Dr. Madden. !!

[lite2shine]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:35am

So Next to Normal will be played in spring 2008? On 2nd stage site, it says winter 2007. But when you say "winter" 2007, will it be like December 2007? "Winter" is Dec through Feb(or March) to me in NYC. I would love to see the show and I keep my fingers crossed so that Ben Schreder will be in the cast too.

[desiree armfeldt]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:21am

I've heard tons of rumors that Lea Michele is going to leave. And I also heard that Skylar is no longer with Feeling Electric. I don't know about Phoebe Strole.

[broadwayboy1017]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:33am

lea michele IS leaving in october, she is still in talks with wicked. marc platt still believes she is too young to play elphaba and she is asking fro WAY too much money.

[playbilled]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 3:14pm

Okayyyyy...

Skylar and phoebe don't know about whether or not they're leaving yet because Next to Normal is still casting for the off-broadway run...just because they did a reading doesn't mean they are coming back...or can. They also are still trying to decide if they would even leave for that.

Lea...guys this is a very old and very false rumor. Someone made up an october date earlier that was completely false. Her contract is until November anyway. She even stated on her myspace that this was a rumor that had gotten out of hand. It is not happening.

[stageagent13]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:52pm

What about the rest of the cast? Where is Gideon going and who is replacing him?

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:08pm

A guy named Blake Daniel will be replacing Gideon.

[OnMyWay]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:57pm

Broadwayboy, do you have any proof for what you said?

[bjh2114]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:02pm

Gideon is going to the Roundabout production of "Speech & Debate" in October.

[stageagent13]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:19pm

Is there news about the others?

[silversurfer2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 9:41am

As far as I have heard, JGallagher is in contract negoitations. No word on anyone else.