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Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL

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#1Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:35pm

Producers Scott Rudinand Roy Furmanannounced today Betsy Wolfe has departed the upcoming Broadway production of Carousel due to scheduling difficulties. Casting for the role of Carrie Pipperidge will be announced shortly.

Scott Rudinsaid, "We wish Betsy well and are enormously disappointed she won't be able to join the company at the Imperial."

Betsy Wolfe said, "I am so sad that I won't be able to join this beautiful production due to scheduling conflicts this fall, and wish the team all the best moving forward."

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#2Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:36pm

WHAT. NO. WHY. HOW. NO. 

i want answers. 

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#3Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:39pm

I'm hyperventilating 


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#4Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:40pm

Someone hold my handbag


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#5Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:40pm

Why this fall, though?


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#6Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:41pm

WHAT?!?!?!? Need details NOW! She was the main reason why I bought tickets. What is she doing that could be more important than this? 

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#7Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:42pm

Any chance she's coming to Broadway with frozen, instead of Caissie? Hmm...

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#8Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:43pm

Is scott Rudin having a big workshop for the show???


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#9Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:43pm

She's so beautiful and so talented, but this is the second show she's been announced for and then replaced. I'm wondering if Hollywood isn't calling OR she thinks she'll have better prospects there.

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#10Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:44pm

Clutches pearls.  Faints.  Wakes up.  Faints again.  Cries.

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#11Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:46pm

NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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#12Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:47pm

So disappointing!  She was the most exciting part of this production for me!!  Ah, well.

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#13Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:48pm

I only hope Cinders is doing okay.

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#14Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:49pm

I'm so sad cryingcrying

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#15Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:50pm

I've been saying she needs to be Elphaba in the wicked film....

i still don't get why it's scheduling conflicts for the fall. Carousel doesn't open until February. So is scott doing a big workshop for this? If so, wouldn't that mean Joshua Henry can't do that either?


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#16Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:52pm

WTF WHY WHATS GOING ON BETSY NOOOOO 

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#17Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:52pm

The phrasing of scheduling conflicts "this fall" is so strange. Carousel ostensibly won't start rehearsals until January.

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#18Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:53pm

Well, that's disappointing. 


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#19Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:54pm

BETSEEEEH! NOOOOOO!!

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#20Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:55pm

I'm kinda happy sher won't be in it. I don't like her voice. 

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#21Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:56pm

I was hoping she would get her tony award from this. Now I'm full on sobbing. I love Betsy sooo much. Someone tell me it's going to be alright and she's still going to have a healthy career.


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Whateverjsays
#22Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:56pm

How could she have signed on for something this high profile knowing she'd have a scheduling conflict? And this fall? The show won't start for months! 

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#23Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:58pm

Eliza Doolittle, I wish. 

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#24Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:58pm

Call_me_jorge said: "I was hoping she would get her tony award from this. Now I'm full on sobbing. I love Betsy sooo much. Someone tell me it's going to be alright and she's still going to have a healthy career."

I mean. She exited Frozen and now Carousel. Both extremely highly anticipated shows. How do you do that to your career?

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#25Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL
Posted: 9/18/17 at 10:58pm

She did recently take leave from Waitress for a night or two, and said on her Instagram that she has a big announcement that would be worth here being out for a few shows...maybe this has to do with it too.

And yes: weird she says this fall is the conflict, as we assume "Carousel" isn't rehearsing yet.


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