Announced But Never Played
Announced But Never Played
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 5:54pm
My friend has an ad for the musical Triumph of Love where Elayne Boosler was going to be in it (the Nancy Opel role). Obviously that didn't work out.
Can you name other actors/shows where someone was announced but never appeared?
Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#2Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 5:57pm
Eden Espinosa was announced as Shelia in Hair, but never did it.
There's also Mya in Chicago.
Updated On: 2/21/14 at 05:57 PM
#2Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 5:59pm
Julia Murney in Dance Of The Vampires (She was listed in the NY Times AD)
Jenna Elfman in Nine
#3Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 5:59pmJudy Kuhn in The Woman In White
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#4Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:00pmDidn't we just read that Dianne Carroll has pulled out of Raisin?
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#5Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:01pmWait! Wasn't Lauren Ambrose supposed to star in Funny Girl?
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#6Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:02pmYet another! Hugh Jackman in Houdini.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:03pmPatti LuPone in Sunset Boulevard (was it actually announced that she would do the Broadway show or was that always just speculation based on Patti's contract?)
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#8Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:04pm
^ I think it was announced.
Alan Cummins and Rachel Woods in Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark.
#9Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:06pmRoger Moore in Aspects of Love
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#10Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:07pm
Antonio Banderas in Zorba.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/ZORBA-Starring-Antonio-Banderas-Confirmed-for-Fall-2011-20100518#.UwfcRnlGiDU
#11Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:10pmMarcia Rodd and Kelly Garrett in Mack & Mable
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#12Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:11pmTommy Tune - Busker Alley . Show was cancelled when Tune busted his ankle.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#13Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:21pm
Dorothy Loudon in Annie 2
#14Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:22pmVanessa Williams was expected to be in The Wild Party
Emma White
Featured Actor Joined: 2/11/13
#15Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:26pmWasn't someone announced for Hope Harcourt in the Roundabout's Anything Goes, but was later replaced by Laura Osnes? I can't remember who, though.
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#17Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 6:56pm
Rita Hayworth in APPLAUSE
Robert Stack in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Faye Dunaway in SUNSET BOULEVARD
Will Chase in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#18Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/21/14 at 7:03pm
Rita Hayworth in Step on a Crack
Shirley Booth in A Loss of Roses
Barry Sullivan in Goldilocks
Shelley Winters in Invitation to a March
Lee Remick in Agnes of God
Jo Van Fleet in The Great Indoors
Ethel Merman in Sadie Thompson
Ron Silver in La Bete and Broken Glass
Dennis O'Keefe In Jennie
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#19Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/22/14 at 1:02amTrini Alvarado was announced for (and even appeared in early advertisements) for the role of Bella in Rags (she was billed above the title with Teresa Stratas) but Judy Kuhn ended up playing the role. I don't know what happened.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#20Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/22/14 at 1:18amTopol in THE BAKER'S WIFE but he was replaced out-of-town by Paul Sorvino. The show closed in previews and never officially opened.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#21Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/22/14 at 1:27amI cannot remember his name but there was a well known opera tenor who was cast in the role of Eric but he was replaced in rehearsals by Edmund Lyndeck (the original Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd).
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#22Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/22/14 at 3:09am
Quit or fired:
Tony Curtis - I Oughta Be in Pictures (Ron Leibman)
Barbara Barrie - Fiddler on the Roof (Nancy Opal)
Barbara Hershey - Einstein and the Polar Bear (Maureen Anderman)
Roger Rees - The Red Shoes (Steve Barton)
Farley Granger - Grand Hotel (John Wylie)
Eve Arden - Moose Murders (Holland Taylor)
Christine Andreas - Legs Diamond (her role was cut during the long preview period)
Illness or death:
Rita Hayworth - Applause (Anne Baxter)
Irene Worth - Ring Round the Moon (Marian Seldes)
Dorothy Loudon - Dinner at Eight (Marian Seldes)
David Burns - 70 Girls 70 (Hans Conried)
#23Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/22/14 at 8:55am
Edward Villella of NYC Ballet and Eleanor Parker in Pal Joey at Circle in the Square back in the mid-70's. I can't remember why Villella withdrew, but Parker then left allegedly because he had, there was much drama and the production was almost cancelled. At the last minute, Christopher Chadman and Joan Copeland took over. Dixie Carter, Janie Sell and Marilu Henner were in supporting roles.
ETA Thanks, Demitri, for reminding me it was Villella and not Baryshnikov. I've since read that Villella asked Jerome Robbins to watch a final run-through. Afterwards, Robbins told him it would it would damage his reputation to appear in New York in this production. I saw it with Chadman. Despite fine work from Carter and Sell, among others, the show was long, slow-paced and very flawed, often a real chore to sit through.
Updated On: 12/10/14 at 08:55 AM
#24Announced But Never Played
Posted: 2/22/14 at 9:07am
Lily Rabe & Richard Easton, HAMLET in Central Park (replaced by Lauren Ambrose & Sam Waterston, respectively)
Laurie Metcalf, THE ANARCHIST (replaced by Debra Winger)
Lisa Emery, ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE (replaced by Jan Maxwell)
The ill-fated first attempt to revive GODSPELL had an announced cast that included Gavin Creel, Josh Henry, and Diana DeGarmo
Diahann Carroll in both RAISIN and ON GOLDEN POND (replaced by Leslie Uggams)
Shia LeBoeuf, ORPHANS (replaced by Ben Foster)
Zoe Caldwell, LA FILLE DU REGIMENT at the Met (replaced but Marian Seldes)
In reference to Patti LuPone from earlier in the thread, it was announced from the very beginning that both her and Kevin Anderson would star in the London and New York productions of SUNSET BLVD, and that was the company line right up to the minute Glenn Close and Alan Campbell were announced as their replacements.
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