Book of Mormon cast as of late? — Page 20

Call_me_jorge said: "I’m old enough to remember when they would replace the two leads with a new duo every year. It seems like ever since the show came back from the pandemic they’ve been actively against replacement casting. Curious if this is a directive from management/the producers or the creatives. I could see it beingMatt and Trey have completely checked out from the show and are not signing off on new auditioners."

Yeah normally with long-running shows (i.e. Wicked, SIX, Hamilton, etc.) they do change the leads every 1-2 years.

Is it harder to find actors who can do the role of Elder Price and Elder Cunningham? I would think every year there's a new batch of actors moving to NYC who could audition for those roles (or other brother roles since they'd be in their 20s.)

Has anyone been there recently? How is it

I saw it last week with a lotto win and my partner has never seen it. It is tiiiiiiiiiired and showing its age. The understudy for Cunningham was the best thing about it. I saw happy Cody was out, I saw him in 2016!!

Has anyone seen Keziah? She's been with the show for over a decade but I don't think has ever been a full time Nabalungi prior to now-but I might be wrong. Happy for her!

Book of Mormon needed new life heading into 2020. The COVID pause did that. BOM was one of the first shows I saw when Broadway reopened and it was electric. Saw it again last year, and it's not in good shape. Weekends have a ton of understudies and swings on, majority of the cast is milking it for a paycheck and the leads have been there for 10+ years. Matt & Trey need to step in and get some fresh faces or close the show.

"Saw it again last year, and it's not in good shape. Weekends have a ton of understudies and swings on, majority of the cast is milking it for a paycheck and the leads have been there for 10+ years. Matt & Trey need to step in and get some fresh faces or close the show."

Was always led to believe that understudies/swings were supposed to be able to deliver a quality performance. You would think on weekends they would be excited to actually perform. I understand it is a paycheck, but I would think if I was in show for 10 years I would want to move on and do something different. I would hope all shows have people that care and check in on the shape of a show, especially long running ones. There are plenty of actors who would die to be in an award-winning show, so it upsets me that there are many in the show milking it for a paycheck. People pay big money for this show so giving it your best effort would be nice -lol.

Yeah, it's a bummer when a show you love has cast members who regularly just walk through it. That happened a lot in the late 1990's and 2000's with Cats, Les Miz and Miss Saigon. Actors who were there at the time have even said that the show's quality was going downhill due to actors just not giving a hoot. When I saw Cats and Miss Saigon the ensemble just could care less and one could easily tell there were members having private, nothing to do with the show conversations.

In Germany actors in long runs are up for replacement every year. Based on feedback from the resident director, stage manager, dance captain and heads of departments actors will have a meeting with the company manager about 3 months before the end of the first year, about whether they would like to stay for another year or leave. At the same meeting, management will give reasons why they want that actor to stay or leave. They have a conversation. Sometimes management wants them to stay but can't offer some of the things that the actor wants...for example being an official first cover. Other times management will straight out tell the actor that the actors backstage behavior (for example having a bad temper all the time or yelling at the costume people or always calling out sick or acting like an entitled diva.....) is the reason they want to part ways with said actor.

And I believe in London, Cameron Mackintosh has a policy of having actors in his long runs only allowed to stay for 2 years MAX. Though he would in the past have principals come back to do various runs, particularly Les Miz Valjeans. He hates the pink contract on Broadway because he finds it leads to staleness in the ensemble cast, which is a VERY fair point. Those of us might recall how he, due to AEA rules, had to close the B'way company of Les Miz to essentially fire those in the cast who had been there too long. That is when the national tour came in around the 9 year mark of the original run. A lot of the actors complained and blamed stage management for not keeping them on their toes (but that was a nonsense argument-it's not the stage manager who is meant to ensure that you do what you were hired to do).

I also believe Hal Prince would pop in unannounced to watch Phantom to make sure it sustained itself at a high level, which I believe it did-I don't recall people saying Phantom ever got stale (not that the ensemble really does THAT much in the show)

I must have gotten lucky when I saw Book of Mormon (and years ago Hairspray) as the entire cast was fantastic long long into their runs.

Dr. Russell M. Nelson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has passed away today. We should probably expect a lyric change that mentions the sitting president of the church. Dallin H. Oaks is next in line to succeed.

ACL2006 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Dr. Russell M. Nelson, president of theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has passed away today. We should probably expect a lyric change that mentions the sitting president of the church. Dallin H. Oaks is next in line to succeed."

why? Nelson isn't mentioned in the show, is he?"

There's a lyric in I Believe that says "I believe the current president of the church (insert name) speaks directly to God"

It hasn’t been Thomas Monson since 2018 when Russel M. Nelson became the president.

Call_me_jorge said: "Cody departs October 26th and the current standby has only been in that position since August. Any ideas who the show will be bringing in?"

Either the standby is being bumped or it's someone new. Shocked there's no announcement yet.

Strangely, Diego is still listed on the tours website. The tour is expected to resume performances this Tuesday after a summer layoff.

New leads announced.



https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Diego-Enrico-Sydney-Quildon-and-More-to-Join-THE-BOOK-OF-MORMON-on-Broadway-20251014