HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#1HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 6:43pm
Wow, this is unexpected. Guess the plans to bring him along fell through.
http://www.broadway.com/Hair-Broadway-Revival-Cast-Will-Not-Include-Jonathan-Groff/broadway_news/5015921
Updated On: 11/20/08 at 06:43 PM
being.jeremiah
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#2re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 6:53pmAnd that's the truth, Ruth.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 6:53pm
Good.
Now just dump Diane Paulus, too, and I'll be entirely thrilled.
#3re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 6:53pmBummer. I was looking forward to getting to see him play Claude.
#4re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 6:59pmThis sucks. I'm sort of not interested now.
#5re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 6:59pmWhile I still love the show itself (and have no plans to go to NYC due to financial issues) that still just blew all my intrest in this out the door.
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#6re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:03pmMaybe he saw the logo...
#7re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:04pmWell...that is a damn shame.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#8re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:10pmMaybe he wants to do a show where he gets to wear pants for the full performance.
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#9re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:13pmGood. All the boy has going for him is a pretty voice. He's boring. Does this mean Christopher J. Hanke will step in or will they be getting someone new? And who sang the song "Shelia Franks" because she should be replaced. Her voice was nothing spectacular.
#10re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:15pmWell, the show didn't really need him to sell tickets. There are dozens of young Broadway actors who could tackle the role.
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#11re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:17pmI am a huge fan of this show, and would say to anyone who did not see the show last summer...don't let Mr Groff's absence discourage you. I never got to see him as Claude and I enjoyed each viewing immensely (went 3 times). The rest of the cast (especially Mr Swenson) was great, and the show is very powerful. Just my humble opinion.
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Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#12re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:17pm
"Well, the show didn't really need him to sell tickets."
You're right. It needs someone bigger.
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#13re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:17pm
I don't get it.
He must have gotten a more lucrative gig.
#14re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:18pm
RentBoy86, there is no such song in HAIR.
If you are referring to "I Believe In Love (which beings with "Sheila Franklin, second semester, NYU...,") THAT was sung by Caren Lyn Manuel, who is being replaced for the Broadway production.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#15re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:21pmIs anyone else thinking that this will go the way of the recent Godspell "almost" revival?
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
#16re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:26pm
Maybe he wants to do a show where he gets to wear pants for the full performance.
FYI-Groff did not remove his clothes in HAIR (at last summer's show at Central Park Delacorte Theater) He was never nude in the show!
J*
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#17re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:30pm
Thanks, J*. Didn't realize that.
With that being the case, I no longer care whether Groff is in HAIR or not.
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
#18re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 7:58pm
Groff's character, Claude does not get nude at the end of the Act 1. Everyone else has the option to go nude, but Claude never gets naked.
so it's not like it was his choice to keep his clothes on. it's written that way in the script.
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AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#19re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 8:04pmI;m really surprised and dissapointed to here this.
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Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#20re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 8:05pmUnfortunately, I didn't get to see it last summer so what I see in February will not be up for comparison. However, after seeing Rock of Ages, I do hope and pray that Will Swenson will be part of the revival. He was terrific in ROA.
BroadwayEd
#21re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 8:21pmTrekkie, I love your avatar.
#22re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 9:50pm
"All the boy has going for him is a pretty voice."
And a pretty face, and a hot bod.
#23re: HAIR casting -- Groff NOT transferring with the production...
Posted: 11/20/08 at 9:53pmLogo? What does the logo look like?
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