Actors who were fired from/left roles — Page 3

Broderick did one very early reading of PARADE. He was never attached to the Broadway production.

And, of course, the whole Christian Hoff/Pal Joey situation

I cannot remember the full story. It was something along the lines of her not being vulnerable enough. Bennett took her out to dinner one night, and the next day she was fired. She had no idea it was coming.

I am virtually certain that I read the story in Ken Mandelbaum's A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Also, I didn't know about Kelsey/Tambor. Wasn't Kelsey nominated for a Tony? I watched that season of the BH housewives and remember Camille going to the Tonys with him. So how does that work if he left after 10 days?



Kelsey was nominated because he originated the role of Georges in the revival. Tambor was his replacement who left shortly after he started his run.



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Seems unfair to get nominated for 10 days work and bailing out.

Sorry that my text wasn't clear enough. Grammer opened the production, he stayed with it from April 2010 until February 2011 and was nominated for the Tony. Tambor replaced him and left the show 10 days after that. I've just edited my original post to avoid future misunderstandings.

Updated On: 4/17/16 at 11:25 PM

Natalie Mendoza left Spider-Man very early in previews after both herself and fellow cast mate Christopher Tierney sustained injuries.



Kecia Lewis was originally cast as the Dragon in Shrek during the show's Seattle tryout, but when they split the role into three soloists she declined to reprise the role for Broadway.

The original Annie: Kristen Vigard was replaced a few days into performances during the out-of-town tryout of ANNIE. She was quickly replaced by Andrea McArdle, who was playing Pepper in the orphan ensemble. Vigard would later become McArdle's standby when the show arrived on Broadway.

"Timothy Nolen - Michael Crawford's replacement in the original Broadway Phantom back a year or so into its run "



I remember that my wife and I missed seeing Michael Crawford by a couple of weeks. It was our first "date" out alone after our oldest daughter was born. If memory serves me correctly, he was pretty good.

Henry Goodman was the first replacement for Max in The Producers before being fired after a month (and being replaced by Brad Oscar, who of course went on to play the role for years).

Also, Melora Walters in the short-lived Match, although I don't remember the circumstances there.

MoDance0934 said: "Phantom of London said: "Who was the guy who was going to take over from Bertie Carvel as Ms Trunchball in Matilta bu never happened?

It was Craig Bierko. He injured himself during rehearsals for the role. He got back into shape and I believe he went on for Ms. Trunchbull a few times but his shoulder injury got worse and eventually he left. Such a physically demanding role!"

He actually couldn't do the role in full as far as I can tell. When he went on they added a character, called Leon Grunchbunkle or something like that, who did the Amanda Thripp throw, and someone else did the jump over the vault in Smell of Rebellion.

Steven Pasquale had to pull out of The Light in the Piazza and South Pacific due to conflicts with his Rescue Me schedule. Interestingly both times he was replaced by Matthew Morrison.

Another small world coincidence is the departures of Craig Bierko in Matilda, and Jeffrey Tambor in La Cage. Both actors departed suddenly and were replaced by their understudy, Chris Hoch, before Christopher Sieber took over full time.

Speaking of the La Cage dismissals, here is an article about Robert Stack. http://nypost.com/2011/03/04/laurents-livid-stack-attack/