Betsy Wolfe as Elsa in FROZEN???

I was so excited about this. LOVE her voice and she actually looks like Elsa! This article made it seem like it was pretty official, but no announcement ever came from Disney? Does anyone know what ever happened with this?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadways-FROZEN-Crowns-its-Fearless-Queen-Meet-Betsy-Wolfe-20160420

Updated On: 4/23/18 at 04:46 PM

Aw....honey....I hate to break it to you, but that article is 2 years old, and, was for one of the workshops, I believe. It's not happening in the near future.

LOL no no yeah I knew they tapped her for the workshop, and that the workshop actors don't always make it to stage. but she seemed like SUCH a perfect fit for the role :/

Yeah, it fell through. Didn't Michael Grandage make some shady remark about Wolfe in an interview after the fact, too? Like how Caissie was "more what they were looking for" in Elsa?

“Murin’s been with the show from the first reading, but Disney couldn’t offer her the part until she was paired with the right Elsa.

‘I needed someone who could act the role, which is difficult, who’s beautiful and on top of that is a belter,’ Grandage says. ‘Usually you have to prioritize. Caissie came in with it all.’”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2017/09/14/first-look-at-frozen-the-musical-already-melting-hearts-in-previews/amp/

Updated On: 4/23/18 at 04:55 PM

Thanks for finding that, Jorge. So shady.

Betsy would've been incredible. The show is horrendous anyway, and while Caissie belts "Let It Go" to the rafters, I honestly thought she was only serviceable in the acting department. I couldn't help but think about Betsy during the show.

Did she have a boy or a girl?

BroadwayRox3588 said: "An alien."



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robskynyc said: "‘I needed someone who could act the role, which is difficult, who’s beautiful and on top of that is a belter,’Grandage says. ‘Usually you have to prioritize. Caissie came in with it all.’”


well that was a crappy thing to say. LOL. sounds like this Grandage has a massive ego.

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I don’t think that is necessary Grandage being ‘shadey’ but simply a director talking about the process of casting a particular role from scratch.

Directors want the cast of their choice, it’s entireky natural if you are taking on a project after a development period, that for whatever reason the producers felt needed to go a different way, that you as a director want a cast that, as far as possible comes with no baggage from the previous process.

A director like Grandage, is at the very least going to want a new leading lady, I cannot see a man with his ego agreeing to anything less than that. The quote on casting, to me is him speaking as though he is starting with a blank slate not as though he had to boot the previous actor for not having met the requirements.

^Not at all how this industry works but ok