CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018- Page 9

[Valentina3]

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Posted: 9/3/17 at 11:09pm

Robbie2 said: "Now that GC closed...they have 5 months to get the Imperial ready"


Seems like the perfect amount of time for a play to do a small stint.

Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.

[CindersGolightly]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 12:05am

I hope they announce the rest of the cast soon. Each day I'm getting more and more excited about this revival.

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

[AC126748]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#202

Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:06pm

Michael Paulson is confirming Wolfe, Alexander Gemignani and Margaret Colin at the Imperial. Previews beginning 2/28/18. Opening night 4/12 (super long preview period).

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Updated On: 9/4/17 at 07:06 PM

[BroadwayConcierge]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:07pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com//article/Breaking-News-Betsy-Wolfe-Alexander-Gemignani-and-Margaret-Colin-Join-CAROUSEL-on-Broadway-Full-Cast-Theatre-Announced-20170904

[MattRVA]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:08pm

Paulson just confirmed it, via Twitter: Next at Imperial Theater: "Carousel." Previews 2/28; opens 4/12. Betsy Wolfe, A. Gemignani, Margaret Colin join Henry, Mueller & Fleming.

[CindersGolightly]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#205

Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:09pm

OH MY GOSH. I CAN'T WAIT FOR BETSY WOLFE TO FINALLY GET A TONY NOMINATION.

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

[kade.ivy]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:10pm

YAYUS!!!! Betsy Wolfe!!!!

[BroadwayConcierge]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#207

Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:10pm

CindersGolightly said: "OH MY GOSH. I CAN'T WAIT FOR BETSY WOLFE TO FINALLY GET A TONY NOMINATION."

Me too!!! Taking Carrie over Elsa now looks like the much smarter choice for her!

[CindersGolightly]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#208

Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:17pm

I now officially, 100% accept Betsy not being Elsa. This is Betsy's YEAR, y'all. AND she'll still be getting that "Frozen" money from the lab. Amen.

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

[wish i were here2]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:17pm

Omg! Yes. Yes. Yes. Damn this Spring 2018 part of this season is going to make my bank account look quite barren. 

[JBroadway]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:20pm

Meh.

I like Betsy but I bet I could come up with 20 more interesting choices for the role. Excited to see Alex Gemignani as Enoch though. And I've been ecstatic about Josh Henry since day 1 (actually since before then, because by a crazy coincidence, I dreamcast him as Billy Bigelow about 2 weeks before his casting was announced). 

[gypsy101]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:21pm

eh i still think she would have been fabulous as Elsa but this should be a fun role for her!

"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

[Call_me_jorge]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:27pm

I believe I was the first one to call the Betsy casting! I'm sooo happy right now. Can't wait to order tickets!

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[Call_me_jorge]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#213

Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:35pm

Happy to see Nicholas Belton will be back at the imperial.

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[Call_me_jorge]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:38pm

Also Alex and Joshua are reuniting in their third(?) show together? Violet, Hamilton Chi and then this!

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[SomethingPeculiar]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:50pm

Opening exactly one week before MY FAIR LADY!

Very excited to hear Jonathan Tunick's new orchestrations for this (though I think the originals are perfection) -- and I assume the large Imperial means we'll hear plenty of strings.

[ACL2006]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 7:59pm

I'm assuming it'll take a while for them to put the Imperial back as a theater. So no way something pops in there for the holidays.

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.

[SomethingPeculiar]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 8:03pm

Would be great to see either a "name" or a Broadway legend as the Starkeeper.

[Call_me_jorge]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 8:08pm

ACL2006 said: "I'm assuming it'll take a while for them to put the Imperial back as a theater. So no way something pops in there for the holidays."

If I'm not mistaken, Mimi lien said they can take down the set within a day. So, I think it is possible for a show to make its way for the holiday season.

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[BroadwayConcierge]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#219

Posted: 9/4/17 at 8:10pm

Call_me_jorge said: "If I'm not mistaken, Mimi lien said they can take down the set within a day. So, I think it is possible for a show to make its way for the holiday season."

I'd imagine it doesn't take too long to take it all down, but it'll take quite a bit of time to put a proscenium theatre back together again. 

[Jakeevan942]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 8:11pm

ACL2006 said: "I'm assuming it'll take a while for them to put the Imperial back as a theater. So no way something pops in there for the holidays."

I wouldn't bet on that-Great Comet started previews 6 weeks after Les Mis closed last year, subtract 2 weeks for tech with cast on stage, which puts total load in + focus/dry tech process at about a month. Load outs generally take 1/4 to 1/2 the load in time, assume the higher end, since they need to do a bit more restore than normal. That should have the imperial restored, ready for a new show in about 2 weeks.

[CindersGolightly]

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Posted: 9/4/17 at 10:43pm

Found this lovely think-piece earlier today. Really really love this new light it sheds on Enoch and Carrie.

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

[GeorgeandDot]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#222

Posted: 9/4/17 at 11:26pm

Oh yeah, Enoch is emotionally abusive to Carrie.  We get to see that Billy is scary, coarse and physically abusive, but we also see Enoch who is kind, sweet, but controlling and manipulative.  I think this is shown in the PBS concert, hopefully they play it up for this new revival.

[somethingwicked]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#223

Posted: 9/5/17 at 12:24am

That is a blindingly white principal cast for a production with an African-American actor playing Billy Bigelow.

What a disappointment.

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.

[@z5]

CAROUSEL Broadway Revival Officially Set for Spring 2018#224

Posted: 9/5/17 at 12:31am

somethingwicked said: "That is a blindingly white principal cast for a production with an African-American actor playing Billy Bigelow.

What a disappointment."

Really.... stop trying to cause drama where there simply isn't any.