Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming- Page 2

[ucjrdude902]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#25

Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:14pm

I would hope that with new "stars" coming they are "stars" to the public and not just to the Broadway community.

[givesmevoice]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#26

Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:15pm

Carolee Carmello is the obvious choice.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[showchoirguy]

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Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:20pm

How is the show going to survive without the star power?

[Phantom of London]

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Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:21pm

A New Argentina

[little_sally]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#29

Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:26pm

Actually, there's a video of Carolee singing "Buenos Aires" that makes me wish she had played the role about 10-15 years ago.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[Quiche2]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#30

Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:28pm

Forget Enrique, let's get GABRIEL Iglesias! Now THAT is a show I would pay to see.

Theatre is my life. No one can take that away from me.

[ucjrdude902]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#31

Posted: 11/26/12 at 8:35pm

How about Leslie Kritzer?

[pretendworld]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#32

Posted: 11/26/12 at 9:02pm

yes yes yes at the posters who said Anneliese van der Pol!

i would kill to see her in this since she already has such amazing history with the show

[ucjrdude902]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#33

Posted: 11/26/12 at 9:17pm

I know they talked to her and she seemed interested.

[Joviedamian]

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Posted: 11/26/12 at 9:29pm

They did say "New Stars". So most likely its not going to be anyone local and or an understudy (although it would be nice).

[ucjrdude902]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#35

Posted: 11/26/12 at 9:29pm

My prediction, Broadway star for Evita, big names for the others.

[Famebroadway2]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#36

Posted: 11/26/12 at 9:36pm

Mandy Gonzalez would be AMAZING! She would blow the roof off the theater.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

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Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:09pm

Gonzalez, Olivo, and Ramirez are all pretty exciting prospects to me. But (I haven't watched it in a few years) isn't Ramirez still on GREY'S?

I think Olivo would be excellent...sure, she's not an amazing dancer, but I'd rather have a very good dancer who can sing extraordinarily than an extraordinary dancer who sings mediocrely. In other words, she'd be a big step up from Elena (who I actually didn't mind in the role as much as others).

[givesmevoice]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#38

Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:11pm

One of the reasons I liked Roger so much is that she was so different from LuPone vocally. I would really hate to see someone who isn't as wildly different from LuPone and have them come across as a pale imitation. (I'm not saying that would be the case with anyone suggested so far, but it's definitely a concern I'd have.)

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#39

Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:25pm

I'd love to see Karen Olivo play the role so badly though they'd be lucky to get Mandy Gonzalez too. Enrique Iglesias would be such a joke as Che, but I guess to a lot of people so was Ricky Martin.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#40

Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:38pm

I really hope they direct whoever replaces Martin to actually...oh, I don't know...act like a REVOLUTIONARY and not a cheery, wide-eyed chorus boy.

[somethingwicked]

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Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:41pm

Mandy Gonzalez does one hell of a "Rainbow High," and her incredible vocal stamina is legendary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNOtSx_TlXE

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 11/26/12 at 10:41 PM

[bobs3]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#42

Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:42pm

I can't help but laugh. I suppose they are joking because the posts who are suggesting that 63-year old Patti LuPone return to play Eva (who ages from about 16 to 32 in the show) are out of their minds. Should Mandy Patinkin and Bob Gunton also return to the show?

[CapnHook]

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Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:50pm

Anna Kendrick as Eva.
Sacha Baron Cohen as Che.
Javier Bardem as Peron.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[showchoirguy]

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Posted: 11/26/12 at 10:52pm

I miss Bob Gunton

[sbflyfan]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#45

Posted: 11/26/12 at 11:13pm

I can't help but laugh. I suppose they are joking because the posts who are suggesting that 63-year old Patti LuPone return to play Eva (who ages from about 16 to 32 in the show) are out of their minds. Should Mandy Patinkin and Bob Gunton also return to the show?

Yes they should. Again, if a 60-year old Ted Neeley can play a 33-year old Jesus, a 63-year old Patti can play a 32-year old Eva. It's called makeup.

:-P <-- And that is a tongue-in-cheek smiley. It indicates sarcasm.

"I'm seeing the LuPone in Key West later this week. I'm hoping for great vocals and some sort of insane breakdown..." - BenjaminNicholas2

[ACL2006]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#46

Posted: 11/26/12 at 11:16pm

surprised Martin didn't extend, if just for 3 more months. he's said in interviews how much fun he's having.

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[zepka102]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#47

Posted: 11/27/12 at 12:24am

I've heard Shoshana Bean sing "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" and it's absolutely gorgeous. Controlled, which I know is something people would prefer from her. It won't happen I'm sure, but she could sure belt it!

::bust a move::

[Dallaslive]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#48

Posted: 11/27/12 at 12:49am

Idina Menzel... Who just happens to have a clear concert schedule from Jan 2013 to June 2013....hmmmmmm

[Born in a Ditch]

Breaking News: Martin, Roger & Cerveris to Depart EVITA January 26, 2013; New Stars Coming#49

Posted: 11/27/12 at 12:54am

I don't know how solid proof this is, but Mandy Gonzalez was in a studio next to a reading I was doing a few months ago, and you could clearly hear her singing "Buenos Aires".