Bye Bye Matt Morrison, New Link Larkin in town.

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:07pm

Matt Morrison is leaving Hairspray on January 13, and will be replaced by Richard H. Blake. That's the broadway.com article below /

http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=32009&CT=38

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:09pm

A.) Damn..
B.) Rich as Link.. I amit
C.) That is MY job damn it!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:09pm

Wow. I'm surprised Adam Fleming didn't get it. I bet Richard was kicking himself after turning down the understudy role originally. I saw the "Saturday Night Fever" tour in DC and it wasn't pretty!!!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:12pm

I was hoping Adam would get it or they give it to me! ::pouts::

can I hire a hit man>??

[Al Dente]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:13pm

Of all the beautiful men in musical theater, why Richard Blake? I agree BG2, you'd be much better.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:14pm

Al Dente, that's not a good picture of Richard. He's actually very cute.

[WhatDoINeedWithLove?]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:15pm

That sucks Adam didnt get it!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:18pm

A.) I know the script.. I own it
B.) I know the choreo
C.) I can amcth Morrison, Fleming, and Hill note for note... haven't heard Martin as Link yet..
D.) I have NEVER beena fan of Richard's..... he was disappointing in FEVER.. if they HAD to give it toa former Tony, why not Sean Palmer.. if they HAD to give it to a former Mark/Roger.. why not Ashton Holmes??
E.) Richard in those shorts?? My GOD! Please make him shave those legs!!!!! EEEWWW!!!!
F.) Is this suddenly a Weissler production of GREASE!?? Rich can't pass for a high schooler student if his life depended on it!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:20pm

Just imagine how Adam feels right now. That's one of the difficult things, being an understudy that doesn't get moved up. But it happens all the time.

Were you seen for it, Broadwayguy??

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:21pm

To clarify, January 11th, a sunday is Matts last show. January 13th is a tuesday and the first day his replacement will go on.

-Christina

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:21pm

I haven't been seen YET.. I submitted a headshot and resume for it.. maybe, hopefully, I can get called in.....



Bad pic???? Rich is not cute in that pic OR in person!!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:27pm

OK, I'll take your word for it (with regards to Richard's picture).

With regards to auditioning for Link...be persistent. In my acting days, I mailed my picture to the Les Miz people every week and then one day they called. Though I never got in, I was called in periodically after that.

Break a leg!!!

Updated On: 11/4/03 at 06:27 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:30pm

Persistant is my middle name!Just ask a few people on this site! LOL


I was actually gettin ready to mail one off this week.

I wonder if sleeping with Mitchell would help........

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:34pm

After all of your persistence, I want to be the first to know when you get the role.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:38pm

He is definitely a bit long in tooth and then some. Again, why Blake? BG2, keep plugging away.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:38pm

Oh trust me.. WHEN I get that role, it will be ON this board!! Pics included!!

Now.. who wants to help me find away to get Rich out of this show....... LOL. All's fair in love and theatre!

[PennyLou]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 6:58pm

I knew he was going but it's still sad to read it in print .


Richard looks a little old to be playing a high school student at least in the picture they have of him he does. Not as old as the tour Seaweed but still He looks to old. At least Adam looks the age and he has done the part before.

Oh well, I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 7:01pm

Sad to read?? I am ECSTATIC to read.. how someone can be all ga ga over Morrison I will NEVER know

[PennyLou]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 7:08pm

Ya know what I would think you would be happy because I'm one less person al "ga ga" over your man. I can Like who I want thank you very much! This is America the land of freedom meaning I have the freedom to be "ga ga" over Matt is I want to be. I am I love MM!! :P

Updated On: 11/4/03 at 07:08 PM

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 7:28pm

i gotta say the original is okay in the role, but not the "typecasting" i expected. The road cast with Austin Miller is closer in expression and look to what Link appears to be written for. i'm not saying that Matt's uninteresting, or untalented. He just didn't fit the "surface picture" of the character as Harvey or Mary or Marissa did. i know he moved up into it when the SNF lead left. i don't know this new Link, but Adam was closer to what i picture the ideal to be, personally. The show is very specific about who in the cast's make-up are to be all-American BMOC and teen queens and who are slightly "off", and with all his talent, charisma, and even sex appeal, Morrison seems more "off" than "leading man juvenile" to me.

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 7:43pm

I saw Adam when I saw the show, and he was phenomenal. Poor guy. This replacement doesn't look so good. I have to go back, to see Matt before he leaves. GOOD LUCK BROADWAYGUY!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 7:47pm

Thanks!

Bernie -- call me! I AM Link!!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 8:34pm

Really? I didn't know Link was a Big Screaming Queen. (Said with love.) Must be revealed in the sequel.

7 years later: "Um, Trace, I have to tell you. I love you. You're my BEST FRIEND. You are the funniest person I have ever met IN MY LIFE. But I just don't love you that way. You know how Judy Garland died this week? Well, up in New York, something's happening... Sketch and Fender called and told me all about it. There's this bar, it's called the Stonewall Inn and [cue music] in the Stonewall Inn, somethin's happenin, cops were such a drag, Trace come be MY HAG!"

Updated On: 11/4/03 at 08:34 PM

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 9:30pm

Of course Adam is amazing! Too bad he didn't get the role. The new guy looks too old and he scares me!

"The clothes are going to be fun to wear. Except for the gym outfit-I don't like those short shorts! I am more of a jam short kind of person, a longer short kind of guy."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 9:32pm

Dont pay bwayguy any mind pennylou.

-Christina