Arthur Darvill, of Doctor Who, is now playing Guy in Once? — Page 2

Maybe Hope & Dreyfuss will be doing the US tour??

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Why issue an announcement on March 18 saying Ben and Laura are the new Guy and Girl as of March 26 if you know you are bringing in others to take those roles 3 weeks later? It just makes no sense. Feel bad for Ben and Laura though hopefully they were given the big picture from the start.

Did they change front of house? I thought the pics out front were from the London cast with lots of info on international editions.

15minutecall,

They did change the pictures of the cast that were outside the theatre. However, it was with similar images that had been there before, only this time it said in small writing on each picture "Original London Cast." There wasn't a lot of info on international editions of the show at all. This is because there are only two productions of the show right now, one in London and one on Broadway.

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Wow. He sounds pretty amazing. Definitely back on my list of things to see. I might wait a bit so they update the Playbill. I don't want one with just a slip inside.

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Updated On: 4/21/13 at 06:16 PM

Did they change front of house?

The pre-printed cast board outside still says Ben and Laura, but that was as of yesterday (I didn't look today).

As for issuing a press release for cast members who don't stick around, Book of Mormon could tell you all about that.

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I'll wait until the playbill is officially changed. They may simply have some kind of rotation with Hope & Darvill/Dreyfuss & Christie until something with AEA is completely sorted out.

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NOW it's official: http://www.boneaubryanbrown.com/blog/2013/04/broadways-tony-and-grammy-award-winning-once-welcomes-arthur-darvill-and-joanna-christie-as-new-guy-and-girl/

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I feel bad for Davis and Dreyfuss. They get announced as being promoted from the standbys to the leads and then three weeks later they get demoted again? And why do we need British actors in these roles???

I think it is interesting that in the new announcement article they emphasize that Ben and Laura were planned as temporary all along, but in the previous article mentioning they were taking the roles, it was never mentioned as being a temporary thing.

In "Once," the music is the starring role, far more than Guy, Girl or any other- the actual act of making music, live and unplugged, is celebrated far more than any of the characters, most of which are relatively lightweight acting-wise.

This could be the anti-Chicago, stunt casting wise. More like the latter days of "American Idiot," in which famous alternative musicians who happened to be actors at least tangentially rotated into the cast for limited runs. I actually wouldn't mind seeing that in Once- it certainly pushes the music content of "play with music" far harder than anyone else ever has. It could be interesting.

And though they've probably aged out of the roles and I don't know if he could have done the required accent, I would have LOVED to see a limited run with longtime collaborators Ben Folds and Regina Spektor.

he couldnt hit the high notes, in fact some of the other ensemble helped him along and i had not seen that before

What song? In "When Your Mind's Made Up", there's this part where, when Glen Hansard sang it, he would climb to high notes that even Steve let others sing and he stayed with lower notes.

I've never seen Once; I'm just basing it off of the cast recording and the highlight reel that when the song goes "When your mind, your miiiiind, Whoa..", Steve sings the first note of "Whoa" the same way Glen did, and then takes a step down. Glen would also keep going higher and higher. Steve may have done it differently for each performance depending on how confident he was in his voice at the time.