Beth Leavel to Join YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN?- Page 2

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:05pm

I wonder if Leavel agreed to work for cheap?

According to the Reidel article, they told the leads to either take a 50% paycut, or leave the cast. I can't imagine Bart, Hensley, or Fitzgerald would accept such a drastic paycut, considering two of them are Tony winners.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:06pm

All three of them have kids to support, so I'm sure they'll stick around even with the pay cut.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:13pm

Now, if they could only get Douglas Sills to take over for Bart, it MIGHT be worth seeing again.

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:15pm

Why, Beth, WHY?

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:32pm

I love Beth Leavel - but I can't think of a single reason to see that mess of a show again.

[meredithchandler73]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:40pm

I think Beth Leavel is a wonderful performer. I haven't seen YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - it just doesn't look like something I'd really enjoy. But it saddens me to see some of these comments - as if replacing someone on Broadway is the death knell for a person's career. Once upon a time there were lots of new shows going up on Broadway. That number is not so big anymore. If Beth Leavel has a chance to be in a Broadway show and wants to take it then I say more power to her! I don't doubt there are Beth Leavel fans out there that will go to the show just to see her in it.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:40pm

I'll definitely go back to see the show with Leavel...very odd casting but I'm sure she'll pull it off.

I have faith in her.

[MovieGuy1031]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:41pm

I bet she'll be absolutely fantastic! I think Beth is the perfect choice.

Albeit, it is odd that she'd do a replacement role... but as someone said: "Girl's gotta eat!"

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 1:14pm

I'm excited, I think she'll be fantastic!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 1:28pm

It is one of the best roles in the show. Iconic. And Leavel with surely score with "He Was My Boyfriend". Perhaps, she could care less about career moves and just wants to play a great role where the show isn't on her shoulders.

[Raspberry]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 1:36pm

I'll probably see the show a second time for Beth Leavel, but I wish she was taking over the Megan Mullally role. That would get me back to see the show a lot faster.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 5:16pm

Or maybe she is just killin' time till "Dancing in the Dark" finds its theatre?

I agree that i would love to see Leavel as Elizabeth.

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 5:52pm

no she's too perfect for Frau

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 5:52pm

no she's too perfect for Frau

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 6:30pm

Damn, that means she probably won't be doing Billy Elliot

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 6:39pm

But it saddens me to see some of these comments - as if replacing someone on Broadway is the death knell for a person's career.

I think people mean that Young Frank. is a career killer...

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 6:43pm

Young Frankenstein isn't the best show but it's not as bad as everyone is making it out to be, and i definatly don't think it's a career killer, for an example Sutton Foster already has another leading role in Shrek

[broadwaylove3]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 7:53pm

Beth Leavel will be AMAZING in anything that she will ever do. I think its good how she did the opposite of what everybody else thought and did somthing different. She is going to be FANTASTIC and I cant imagine how it would do anything bad to her career.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:17pm

I feel so sorry for Beth. She's too amazing a performer to be stuck in this truly bad show. She deserves better.

[justafan2]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:18pm

I really like this show---and I just ordered tix to see (hopefully), both Beth and Megan (before she's scheduled to leave). I think Beth will make a great Frau B. (maybe they'll put a drink in her hand---she plays a great drunk!)

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:29am

I'm sure she wouldn't have done it if she didn't want to. You guys are acting like she's been forced to do this show. It's her career. I'm sure she could do something else, but the fact is, it's a leading role in a well-known stage musical on Broadway.

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:31am

hey andrea martin is doing the part she's a Broadway legend, well at least I think so

[Dre2387]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:51am

I'm sure she'll be great in it and it's possible that she won't be there for long before either Dancing In the Dark comes to Broadway or another show comes along that she'll be in.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:38am

This is not a "career killer." It certainly makes ME want to see the show again.

I'm sure it's temporary. Beth is much "in-demand" these days.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 4:15am

Well, this most certainly means that Leavel is not going to be in BILLY ELLIOT as everybody else has stated. I do wonder how long she is contracted with the show though.
Although I prefer Andrea Martin, I do think that she will be a hoot in the show. Now if only the rest of the replacement cast were in the same caliber as Leavel...that would have been fantastic.