CONFIRMED: Audra McDonald-led GYPSY to begin previews Nov 2024- Page 31
CONFIRMED: Audra McDonald-led GYPSY to begin previews Nov 2024
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#750
Posted: 7/27/24 at 10:48am
WldKingdomHM said: "No way! I give her 3 weeks and then that’s it
I don't know about Merman, but Lansbury, Daly and Peters all performed 8 shows a week.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#751
Posted: 7/27/24 at 11:20am
Jarethan said: "I don't know about Merman, but Lansbury, Daly and Peters all performed 8 shows a week."
The people who came before her are irrelevant to this conversation. Some People (hehe) are concerned that Audra did only 7 shows a week in LADY DAY, and after missing a number of PORGY & BESS performances reduced to 7. Now she's scheduled to do all 8 a week in GYPSY. (She has done 8 a week with other roles, for what it's worth.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#752
Posted: 7/27/24 at 11:49am
Broadway is not a free-for-all where principals can come and go from their shows! Everyone has a contract, and getting out of one Broadway show to do a different Broadway show is rarely ever part of a principal contract unless the "out" is negotiated for a specific show at the time of signing! Pigs fly occasionally, but for the love of god manage expectations!
SUFFS and NOTEBOOK run through Jan 5 and Dec 29 respectively. Kevin McCollum and Jill Furman are not going to lose a top player out of the goodness of their heart. Not to mention Joy would be balancing RAGTIME, whose rehearsal process would fall squarely in the middle of GYPSY's. (Sutton Foster was the difference between SWEENEY staying open vs closing after countless "no"s from bigger Lovett candidates, and her agents could dictate her schedule)
Nikki M. James would be a great Rose Alternate if they need to cross that bridge after the show opens.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#753
Posted: 7/27/24 at 1:24pm
Dying to know who the other possible lovetts were.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#754
Posted: 7/28/24 at 4:30pm
Jarethan said: "I don't know about Merman, but Lansbury, Daly and Peters all performed 8 shows a week."
So did LuPone.
I’d like to add Heather Headley to the list of potential Rose alternates.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#755
Posted: 7/28/24 at 4:56pmThe brilliant Heather Headley is no one’s alternate.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#756
Posted: 8/12/24 at 9:01pm
Rehearsals start September 9 table read. Expect casting announcement soon
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#757
Posted: 8/12/24 at 9:19pm
Broadway Flash said: "Rehearsals start September 9 table read. Expect casting announcement soon"
The first rehearsal will be 9/30/24, unless they've inexplicably added three weeks of rehearsal since the casting notice went out in mid-June, or unless they're doing a one-off table read ahead of actual rehearsals beginning.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#758
Posted: 8/12/24 at 9:38pm
Maybe they feel they need more time?
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/30/17
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#759
Posted: 8/12/24 at 9:43pm
Nikki M. James would be a great Rose Alternate if they need to cross that bridge after the show opens."
No, thank you. No.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#760
Posted: 8/12/24 at 9:49pm
Broadway Flash said: "Maybe they feel they need more time? "
They need to work on their New Orleans dialects, obviously.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#761
Posted: 8/12/24 at 9:52pm
Surprised by the lack of rumors for this production. Seems like when this was announced it was, “Just wait ‘til you hear who else they have lined up!” to no casting news or rumors for weeks. Makes me wonder which way this announcement will end up going.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#762
Posted: 8/12/24 at 10:07pm
If it’s a radically reimagined revival, I could see them wanting more time to try things and see if it works. Yes the New Orleans and race aspect of it they’re adding in.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#763
Posted: 8/12/24 at 10:57pm
corninthesky said: "Surprised by the lack of rumors for this production. Seems like when this was announced it was, “Just wait ‘til you hear who else they have lined up!” to no casting news or rumors for weeks. Makes me wonder which way this announcement will end up going."
Well, seeing as all the rumors were wildly wrong..........
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#764
Posted: 8/12/24 at 11:11pm
Broadway Flash said: "If it’s a radically reimagined revival, I could see them wanting more time to try things and see if it works. Yes the New Orleans and race aspect of it they’re adding in."
The 7.5 weeks of rehearsal & tech that they already have prior to previews is quite luxurious for a musical revival. It is virtually unheard of for a Broadway musical in contemporary times to have 10+ weeks of rehearsal. You'll run out of things to do in the studio, and you can't be in tech forever because the costs are astronomical. This isn't the era of Jerome Robbins and Gower Champion and criminally low salaries.
Spend that money on the production's Po Boy budget.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#765
Posted: 8/13/24 at 12:19am
it sounds like they are workshopping the show before real rehearsals begin. I mean it makes sense, they’re opening cold on Broadway. Most revivals have a previous life before coming in, these days either from City Center or London or a regional theatre production. I heard first table read September 9 with dance rehearsals starting the following week
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/10
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#766
Posted: 8/13/24 at 3:21am
Is Coleman Domingo too young for Herbie? He is a Broadway baby!!
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#767
Posted: 8/13/24 at 8:22am
There are about two weeks of work leading up to the 30th.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#768
Posted: 8/13/24 at 10:00am
Joviedamian said: "Is Coleman Domingo too young for Herbie? He is a Broadway baby!!"
For the umpteenth time, Herbie will be played by a white actor.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#769
Posted: 8/13/24 at 10:35am
Rumors are Joy Woods is dropping out of Ragtime to be Louise.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#770
Posted: 8/13/24 at 10:43am
I don’t want Joy Woods in Ragtime or Gypsy because she’s a complete bore on stage. Saw her as the understudy for Audrey in Little shop. I felt nothing. And then for The Notebook. Also nothing.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#771
Posted: 8/13/24 at 11:14am
berniesb!tch said: "Rumors are Joy Woods is dropping out of Ragtime to be Louise."
Last I heard, this was trying to be worked out. But haven’t heard any updates in a while.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#772
Posted: 8/13/24 at 11:21am
Joviedamian said: "Is Coleman Domingo too young for Herbie? He is a Broadway baby!!"
Yessssssssssssss.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#773
Posted: 8/13/24 at 11:40am
I thought the concept was to have Louise be dark-skinned and June mixed race and light skinned? Joy Woods would seem to be more of a June in this case...
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#774
Posted: 8/13/24 at 11:47am
If the concept is indeed to have a June that could feasibly "pass" as mixed-race or even white, then I disagree that Woods fits that description.
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