Actors who were fired from/left roles
Actors who were fired from/left roles
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/15
Actors who were fired from/left roles#1
Posted: 4/16/16 at 8:23pm
Off the top of my head, I can think of Bradley Dean, Craig Bierko, and Sandy Duncan. Who else?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#2
Posted: 4/16/16 at 8:24pm
The guy from the nanny from a La Cage revival..
Actors who were fired from/left roles#3
Posted: 4/16/16 at 8:36pm
Believe Daniel Davis is his name.
Updated On: 4/16/16 at 08:36 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Actors who were fired from/left roles#4
Posted: 4/16/16 at 8:39pm
Many. The four that come quickest to mind left roles for very different reasons:
Dean Jones, COMPANY
Madeline Kahn, ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Judy Kuhn, SHE LOVES ME
Bette Davis, NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#5
Posted: 4/16/16 at 8:41pm
Thanks for the name.
Actors who were fired from/left roles#6
Posted: 4/16/16 at 8:41pm
Valerie Harper replaced by Marlo Thomas in Theives -- Boston pre-NY
Actors who were fired from/left roles#7
Posted: 4/16/16 at 8:50pm
Here's a thread: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1078901#4612148
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#9
Posted: 4/16/16 at 10:54pm
Lanie Kazan from Seesaw
Actors who were fired from/left roles#10
Posted: 4/16/16 at 10:57pm
As people have said, Daniel Davis (Georges) was fired from the 2004 production of La Cage. Another Georges has left the role too: in the 2010 revival Jeffrey Tambor replaced Kelsey Grammer after, Tambor stayed with the show for 10 days, give or take, and then withdrew from it due to 'complications from a hip surgery he'd undergone a few weeks prior', though no one bought that.
Emma Hunton left the tour of Wicked out of the blue too, a couple of weeks before it closed. I don't think there was an announcement of her replacement -something Wicked always does-, so there's that too.
Actors who were fired from/left roles#11
Posted: 4/16/16 at 11:02pm
Barbara Cook famously left CARRIE after near decapitation though she was unable to leave before the Stratford run was through.
Laine Kazan on the other hand was fired in Detroit from SEESAW for reasons even today not agreed entirely upon.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#12
Posted: 4/17/16 at 12:34am
At Cagney was fired from the original "Odd Couple" because of his drinking.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#13
Posted: 4/17/16 at 12:41am
Dolly, put down that bottle . It was Art Carney. At Cagney played Oscar.
Actors who were fired from/left roles#14
Posted: 4/17/16 at 12:44am
Contrary to rumors Betty Buckley was not fired from Into The Woods. She participated in the first workshop pre San Diego and then was in the two week pre Broadway workshop. She did not participate in the show due to negotiation breakdowns.
Actors who were fired from/left roles#15
Posted: 4/17/16 at 12:56am
Alexandra Socha mysteriously left the off-Broadway production of Fun Home. (I'm still curious about the details of that tbh)
Actors who were fired from/left roles#16
Posted: 4/17/16 at 12:59am
Socha was wonderful in the part.
Chester Gregory was replaced with Daniel Breaker as the Donkey in Shrek. Both good performers.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#17
Posted: 4/17/16 at 1:01am
Good Old Mr Selfridge, Jeremy Piven, left Speed The Plow after swallowing to many thermometers and getting mercury poisoning.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
Actors who were fired from/left roles#18
Posted: 4/17/16 at 1:13am
Faye Dunaway, (in)famously was let go from the LA production of Sunset Boulevard.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#19
Posted: 4/17/16 at 1:15am
George Sanders left Sherry out of town due to his wife's illness.
Actors who were fired from/left roles#20
Posted: 4/17/16 at 1:16am
And let's not even get into the Patti situation.
Actors who were fired from/left roles#21
Posted: 4/17/16 at 1:16am
Tony Curtis, I Ought To Be In Pictures
Lee Remick, Agnes of God
Louis Jourdan, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Dallas Roberts, The Glass Menagerie
Santino Fontana, A View From The Bridge
Mary Tyler Moore, Rose's Dilemma
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Actors who were fired from/left roles#22
Posted: 4/17/16 at 1:19am
Paul Muni left At The Grand before it was to come to Broadway. Believe it was over a pay dispute. Show closed in Frisco I believe and was reincarnated as Grand Hotel many years later.
Understudy Joined: 4/26/05
Actors who were fired from/left roles#23
Posted: 4/17/16 at 2:54am
Timothy Nolen - Michael Crawford's replacement in the original Broadway Phantom back a year or so into its run - was allegedly bought out of his contract halfway through - and replaced by Cris Groenendaal (then appearing as Firmin or Andre in the show). Lesser known, opera baritone Nolen was an odd choice for the most sought after tenor part in years (though other baritones have played the role since), reaching for the top notes (as some who have heard recordings would know). I saw him his last weekend in role with Groenendaal watching from the house...The rumor was that Lloyd Webber and Mackintosh were openly heard in a restaurant debating Nolen's casting.
A decade later, Nolen was back with ALW, starring in his ill-fated Whistle Down the Wind, in a baritone' a role. That he was a Hal Prince favorite, in a Prince-directed show- didn't hurt.
Actors who were fired from/left roles#25
Posted: 4/17/16 at 3:24am
Jeremy Jordan , FN
Actors who were fired from/left roles#26
Posted: 4/17/16 at 3:43am
The infamous nerd chorus from "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" 1.0!
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