AUDRA GYPSY Reviews — Page 16

pagereynolds said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "ACL2006 said: "Cancelling an hour prior to curtain is so amateur especially since the box office was telling people earlier that Audra would be on today."

Just another example of why Box Office employees should never have to be tasked with servingas unofficial spokespeople for a production. It's not their job to know who's on.

Their union should crack down on this to remove them from that equation."

I mean, yes, and no. Really, if someone had asked this morning, they could have just said they didn't have any information that the full cast wouldn't be on."

they also sold rush tickets to both shows this morning. maybe there was some hope they could perform today, but then a few other cast members became ill this morning?

I’m guessing that somebody failed their COVID test last minute. No Broadway show should have only one understudy per role nowadays. So dumb. For example, I assumed Brittney Johnson was covering Louise or June. Nope. She’s just ensemble. Huh?!?

Jordan Catalano said: "If everything is so minute-to-minute with this production, I’m curious how they’re so certain they can resume tomorrow."

They can’t be certain. Just cancel now and resume for a new week on Tuesday. Gives the cast and crew more time to get better. And also not make audiences crazy with this “on again, off again” mess. No?

the show has 8 swings, which is a good amount. i wouldn't expect more swings added anytime soon outside of vacation swings down the road.

• Tryphena(standby) is the only cover for Rose.
• Natalie Wachen(standby) is the only cover for Tessie Tura, Electra & Miss Mazeppa.
• Ken Robinson(swing) is the only cover for Georgie, Kringelein, Pop, & Uncle Jocko.
• Joe Osheroff(swing) is the only cover for Andrew Kober's roles and Weber/Pastey/Phil.
• Cole Newburg(swing) is the only cover for Tulsa.
• Sasha Hutchings(swing) is the only cover for June.
• Hunter Capellan(ensemble) is the only cover for the 3 Newsboys.
• Shanel Bailey(swing) is the only cover for Louise.
• The roles of Herbie, Baby Louise, Angie, Yonkers & Little Rock have two covers.

They can’t be certain. Just cancel now and resume for a new week on Tuesday. Gives the cast and crew more time to get better. And also not make audiences crazy with this “on again, off again” mess. No?

Yes. People are sick of this and don't want to be on pins and needles waiting. Especially tourists who came here specifically to see this. What a colossal mess.

I agree, Jordan. Either their management has no idea what they are doing (which I don't think is the case), or people must just still be dropping like flies and every time they think they've got covers worked out, someone else drops. So hopefully whomever they've got in terms of a cast who can pull off the show for tomorrow hangs in there. I also have to wonder if their issue isn't just cast illness, but also with illness in the crew?

As someone who can only make it to the city a couple of times per year, I really feel for everyone who has had tickets to the canceled shows as well as the cast and crew who are either sick themselves or also dealing with the "we're on, nope "we're canceled" of it all too. I hope they really are able to get themselves back up and running tomorrow.

I feel bad for the cast. I understand as audience remembers we are entitled to a full refund for a performance cancellation.

question: even though a performance is cancelled, will the cast, backstage crew, orchestra, and front of house folks still be paid? Given how they cancelled 65 mins before showtime I’m sure some members of the cast and theater employees already reported to work.

ACL2006 said: "Gonna assume that u/s board is going to be loaded.

Word is Audra is on today per the box office."


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It's honestly ridiculous for them to really be trying to push these performers onto stage at the second they won't drop dead after the first 20 minutes. Like if you want them to be on stage for new years you actually have to give the space to improve and have the axe hanging over their heads of "Tonight's Performance" isn't helpful.

Updated On: 12/28/24 at 02:24 PM

VotePeron said: "No one will ever be able to convince me the producers handled this week correctly. I feel so bad for the thousands of audience members who had their Christmas week ruined because they didn’t cancel these performances on Monday when they KNEW this was by far the likeliest outcome."

Unless most of the cast had COVID, there's zero proof they knew they would have to cancel the week on Monday.

pagereynolds said: "VotePeron said: "No one will ever be able to convince me the producers handled this week correctly. I feel so bad for the thousands of audience members who had their Christmas week ruined because they didn’t cancel these performances on Monday when they KNEW this was by far the likeliest outcome."

Unless most of the cast had COVID, there's zero proof they knew they would have to cancel the week on Monday."

They sure as **** knew before Saturday...

pablitonizer said: "Just to recap, their last performance was Sunday 12/22 and then all performances were cancelled until tomorrow, correct?



Yikes!"

I think that's right. Joy Woods' standby went on for Saturday.

When Broadway re-opened tons of shows had to cancel their Christmas weeks including Waitress and Hamilton due to all the Covid horror.