Posted: 5/19/15 at 3:50pm
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:14pm
Am I wrong on Ana Gasteyer's age, or is she a titch young to have mothered Jonathan Groff?
I still cannot wait!
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:17pm
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:19pm
Aaron Lazar? Wonderful. So glad I have a way down-front ticket!
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:20pm
And perhaps a younger mother is really what's called for with this show. I'm terribly excited. I was in LA doing a gig when this ran off-Broadway in '98...so I've never seen it on stage. I'm so excited to be remedying that in June!
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:21pm
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:28pm
I love the show so much...I'm giddy with excitement for this.
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:29pm
Ya know...for a show I love so much due to the cast recording, it's weird I've never sought out the script. I mean...there's like three songs from this show in my audition book. I'm a terrible actor.
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:38pm
Not gonna lie, I'd kill to hear you sing "And They're Off".
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:41pm
I played the Minister in a very successful regional production (William Finn's old babysitter played the mother in our production!) and I love everything about this show. It's such a tight score, I don't think there is a single second that is wasted in the entire show.
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:42pm
Now I have to go play the cast recording.
Posted: 5/19/15 at 4:52pm
"Not gonna lie, I'd kill to hear you sing "And They're Off"."
That's my go-to for auditions. I'm not terrible at it. 
Posted: 5/19/15 at 5:22pm
Sweet Jesus, please, tell me Jenni's doing the Cheno track!
Posted: 5/19/15 at 5:50pm
"Am I wrong on Ana Gasteyer's age, or is she a titch young to have mothered Jonathan Groff?
I still cannot wait!"
I'd Mother Jonathon Groff
Posted: 5/19/15 at 6:33pm
"Sweet Jesus, please, tell me Jenni's doing the Cheno track!"
She is!
https://twitter.com/jennibarbs/status/600767973301821441
Posted: 5/19/15 at 7:43pm
This is indeed a great cast. As others have said, Ana Gasteyer in real life could have been a very young mother to Jonathan Groff (who for some reason I always forget is only five years younger than myself), and for the purposes of these handful of performances I certainly wouldn't be bothered by worrying about how old she would have been when she had him.
Hoping I'll be able to fit it in around the rehearsal schedule for the show I'll be working on at the time.
Posted: 5/19/15 at 9:03pm
Ana Gasteyer has always played older then she is.
Posted: 5/20/15 at 12:11am
Why doesn't Encores! record their shows more often?!? This is another concert I would love to have in my collection, along with several other Encores: Anyone Can Whistle, Bells Are Ringing, The Most Happy Fellas, Fiorello and Victor Garber, Victoria Clark, Michael McGrath and Donna Murphy in Follies.
Posted: 5/20/15 at 12:35am
Aaron Lazar singing "Sailing"? COUNT ME IN. That's going to be stupid gorgeous.
Posted: 5/20/15 at 8:06am
I've been told that the original cast recording is missing a few songs and it isn't a good representation of the show.
If this is true, hopefully, Finn, Lapine, and Encores will recognize it and record a new album.
Posted: 5/20/15 at 8:09am
"Why doesn't Encores! record their shows more often?!? This is another concert I would love to have in my collection, along with several other Encores: Anyone Can Whistle, Bells Are Ringing, The Most Happy Fellas, Fiorello and Victor Garber, Victoria Clark, Michael McGrath and Donna Murphy in Follies."
Because cast recordings cost money, and if someone isn't stepping forward and writing a check, a recording isn't going to be made.
Posted: 5/20/15 at 8:14am
I would love nothing more than to have this cast preserved.
But the OCR still holds up really well and I don't see this being recorded.
Hope I'm wrong.
Posted: 5/20/15 at 10:02am
This announcement has me even more excited. Can't wait.
And, for what it's worth, the OCR is what hooked me on this show. I certainly won't be angry if they choose to record this cast (like, I really won't be angry), but I think the original recording is pretty solid and worth checking out.
