ALW's Bad Cinderella on Broadway - News & Discussion Thread — Page 2

jacobsnchz14 said: "Lunalaaaaaaaa said: "chrishuyen said: "I would love to see this happen, the reviews look promising and the score definitely has some great songs, and I hope Carrie Hope Fletcher would get to transfer with it "

I hope so too! Do transfers usually keep the original casts?"

West End transfers? It just depends. There's not a "usual", unfortunately. Most recently...

Tina obviously had Adrienne on both sides of the pond, the revival of Catshad Leona Lewis on Broadway but Nicole Scherzinger was in the West End production, Hadestown had everybody (but that originated in the States), Angels in America had some cast changes, nearly every principal from the Miss Saigon revival were in both productions, Michael Xavier and Glenn Close did Sunset here and in the UK, The Color Purple revival brought in Cynthia, American Psycho had a completely different cast (I believe)...

I could see them bringing only Carrie... doubtful they'd bring Ivano over, too, but probably no one else from the West End cast."

I wonder if there is the possibility Carrie won't follow Cinderella across the pond? Though I know Katharine McPhee played Jenna on Broadway and the West End (which was more of a Broadway to West End, I believe), so I agree with you about Carrie coming from the West End to also play Cinderella on Broadway. If Ivano doesn't follow, I wonder who might play Prince Sebastian hmmm.

I know this is too soon to speculate, but do we think Cinderella could be up for Tonys?

LaChanze for Godmother please.

In an Instagram Q&A thing on her page, she was asked if Cinderella came to Broadway would she want go to go and she ENTHUSIASTICALLY said [paraphrasing] she would do it in a heartbeat. I also think she said that her contract ends in July 2022. I really hope she does come because I need to see her live.

Updated On: 10/22/21 at 10:21 AM

I love how even though the show is billed as "Andrew Lloyd Webber's CINDERELLA" he never hesitates to start off by mentioning Emerald Fennell and her contributions as bookwriter and her recent Oscar win. Class act.

If I’m understanding what’s going on with the show right now, the audience sat in their seats for an hour last night waiting for the show that was eventually canceled and never happened, while backstage the actors were trying to be convinced to go on, even though there had been positive Covid cases and ignoring protocols for their safety.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Andrew-Lloyd-Webbers-CINDERELLA-Aims-for-Fall-2022-Broadway-Transfer-20220125

The article says they are looking for actors for the role of Cinderella. Please tell me that Equity did not bar Carrie Hope Fletcher! I will riot if they do this yet again! London has so many amazing actors that deserve to perform on Broadway and I do not understand why Actors Equity has to be so cruel about it!

Hopefully, it's just for the Cinderella Alternate. Carrie is so talented and deserves to perform on Broadway. I am just anxious that Actors Equity is yet again going to bar a talented actor/actress from London to perform on Broadway.

pmensky said: "Unless a big named American performer wanted to do the role, I would guess Carrie would get it. Just don’t forget how Webber is notoriously fickle. If someone he considered to be a bigger name wanted to do it, he’d drop her like a hot potato. I can’t think of anyone at the moment who would be famous enough to knock her out of contention."

Hope Webber learned his lesson after firing Patti LuPone from Sunset Boulevard all those years ago.

pmensky said: "Dylan Smith4 said: "pmensky said: "Unless a big named American performer wanted to do the role, I would guess Carrie would get it. Just don’t forget how Webber is notoriously fickle. If someone he considered to be a bigger name wanted to do it, he’d drop her like a hot potato. I can’t think of anyone at the moment who would be famous enough to knock her out of contention."

Hope Webber learned his lesson after firing Patti LuPone from Sunset Boulevard all those years ago."

Don’t forget about pulling the plug on Faye Dunaway, too."

I don't think Webber will fire Carrie as he wants her to play this role on Broadway. I am more worried that the stupid Equity may bar her because she's not "American". They have no respect for overseas talent and it's ridiculous!

Tag said: "Didn't AEA remove restrictions for international artists last year?"

I thought so, and anyway hasn’t there been an exchange program for years where as long as there’s an equal exchange, they’ve been fine with actors coming over to work?