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#1

Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:44pm

From Broadway.com:

Daily Show Alum Mo Rocca to Join Spelling Bee 4/17
by Broadway.com Staff

Mo Rocca, special correspondent to The Tonight Show and alum of The Daily Show, will join the cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Vice Principal Douglas Panch for a limited engagement beginning April 17 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre.
The hit musical will also welcome spellers from the San Francisco/Boston company to the cast, beginning the same night: Aaron J. Albano as Chip Tolentino, Stanley Bahorek as Leaf Coneybear, Jenni Barber as Olive Ostrovsky, Sara Inbar as Logainne Schwartzandgrubiennaire and Greta Lee as Marcy Park. Jared Gertner, the sixth speller from the San Francisco/Boston company, joined the Broadway cast on January 30. Also new to the Broadway Bee will be Jennifer Simard (Forbidden Broadway, The Thing About Men) as Rona Lisa Perretti, a role she performed on the national tour, and James Monroe Iglehart as comfort counselor Mitch Mahoney, also from the San Francisco/Boston company.
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Does this mean the whole Broadway cast is basically getting the axe, or is this just a limited time thing as well.
#2

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:48pm

The current actor playing Mitch will be joining the cast of LITTLE MERMAID.

It seems as if the entire cast is being replaced.
"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
#3

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:48pm

Oh, that is BRILLIANT. I love Mo Rocca on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#4

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:48pm

Or is the entire cast just leaving and the casting directors just decided to put in san francisco and tour people?
#8

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:50pm

Even though, I have no doubt that this new cast will be good, I think it's wrong to replace people who haven't even been there that long (Barret Foa for one) are they deciding to leave?

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#9

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:51pm

This is possibly the saddest news I've heard...ever.
#11

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:52pm

Oh my god, that sounds fantastic.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#12

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:52pm

This is possibly the saddest news I've heard...ever.

Not for MEEEEEEEEE!! :)
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#14

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:53pm

They've been doing it for what, 2 years?

They'd be fired NOW.

Note the saracasm.
#15

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:54pm

Well that's random. I hope some of the tour men don't get on Broadway. I don't think they do the show justice.
#17

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 9:55pm

*sigh* I knew they'd all have to leave eventually, but I expected them to trickle out one by one. Not all just go at once.

Now I'm off to beg my father to somehow let me see their last show.


Edit:// Apparently I never learned the difference of There/Their/They're.

Updated On: 3/20/07 at 09:55 PM

#19

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 10:03pm

liotte-
Was it a cast decision to all leave on the same day, or were contracts up for originals left (Sarah, Lisa, Jose, Derrick, Deborah) and they all just decided to leave with them?

Was anyone forced out?
#20

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 10:06pm

Wow that is upsetting, but great for them to all go together! Just will be such a different show with them gone....
#21

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 10:06pm

Wow, this was definitely NOT what I wanted to hear.
Although I am excited to see Jenni Barber as Olive.
Chrissy*J
#22

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 10:07pm

It is really odd that they're all leaving at once.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#23

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 10:08pm

I'm not answering a question like that. That is between the actors and producers and people involved with the show, not our business and info for a message board.

I find it interesting that this is the way it was first presented that they are all leaving. I think they deserve more than a passing word in an article about one person coming in for a limited time. Hopefully the official announcement will give them all the credit they deserve for such a long and amazing run. And generate some buzz for their next project.
#24

re: Broadway Bee Cast Replaced?

Posted: 3/20/07 at 10:09pm

Barret has had the date of his last show on his site for, like, a month.
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