Daphne Replaced?
Daphne Replaced?
#1Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:29am
I've been told by a credible source that Daphne Rubin-Vega is being replaced in Les Miz. Apparently the role has been offered to Alice Ripley.
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#1re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:32amIs she bad?
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#2re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:33amShe should be replaced...but I doubt this is true.
#3re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:35am*snort* Who's the source? When did they tell you this? Has it been posted on Playbill or a similarly reliable source? Then I ain't buying it until I see proof.
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#4re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:36amI'm not asking you to believe it. I'm just relaying what I was just told.
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#5re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:36am
methinks this is more wishful thinking then fact. or a bad game of telephone how quickly "should be replaced" can turn into "will be replaced."
Im still pissed about the person who claimed that Meryl Streep was cast in the Sweeney Todd film.
#6re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:37am
Is she bad?
Which one?
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#8re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:39am
Utter crap.
No way would they replace a featured role during press week. It would cost them more than the run can afford. Contracts have an out, but it's too late for this one...
Site your source.
And they've cast the daughter roles to match the type--and no way will people believe that Alice has an ethnic child.
I know this cast is wonderfully colorblind, but both young and old Cosette have been cast to somewhat match a "look". Not being racist here, but also not being blind. We have to believe it's her child, young and older. It's hard enough to believe the performance... (although I hear it's getting better!) 
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#9re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:40amIt opens on Thursday...there is no way she will be replaced unless they delay opening. Not happening. (if it does, i'll be shocked)
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#10re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:43am
I would absolutely love to see Alice in this role.
That said, I don't think it's really fair to say you heard this from a credible source, not give a single clue to who this might be, and leave everyone hanging.
#11re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:44amI didn't say this was necessarily happening right this second. They just told me that she has been offered the role.
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#12re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:45am
I know this cast is wonderfully colorblind, but both young and old Cosette have been cast to somewhat match a "look".
Not really. Only Kylie is Asian. 
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#13re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:45amSo she's probably being offered the role during Daphne's other show in January. That makes perfect sense to me.
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#14re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:46am
Yeah. I really want to see Daphne, anyway.
But she needs to be replaced in January, so...
#15re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:47am
Are we all sure it's not that Alice Ripley's been asked to cover that period where Daphne's off doing that other play in spring?
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#16re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:49amIf someone had a truly credible source that they may wish to have again, why would they tell their information on the internet. That doesn't make sense to me. If I ever had inside information, I would not betray the person who told me in confidence. That doesn't make sense.
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#17re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:50am
I'm leaving you hanging as far as the source, because I was asked not to say who the source is.
They did not specify when the replacement would happen, or if Ms. Ripley had accepted the role. I'm not trying to be a d*ick; I was just posting what I was told.
edit: Thank you Ashley.
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#18re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:51am
Lizzie, I was only implying that both young Cosettes and Cosette have a similar resemblance. I used to work in casting, so their "type", NOT ethnicity, is similar. I can believe she is her offspring. However, it wouldn't matter, fundamentally, since no one in the cast "feels" french anyway... hehehe
EDIT: for spelling.
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#19re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 12:57am
If someone had a truly credible source that they may wish to have again, why would they tell their information on the internet. That doesn't make sense to me.
LOL.
TheActr97J, you're certainly not a d*ck.
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#20re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 1:00am
Well thank you Lizzie.
To be honest, I wasn't even sure if it was okay to post something like this. lol
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#21re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 1:07am
I protect my sources to, so I respect that. It's a hot bed topic right now, so expect some feedback.
You made it sound like the replacement was happening NOW. That's not possible. If it is...then you must spill it. Cause your source is gonna soon...
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#22re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 1:09am
If someone had a truly credible source that they may wish to have again, why would they tell their information on the internet. That doesn't make sense to me.
LOL.
Why was that funny?
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#23re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 1:10am
lol.... sorry about that. But at least I put a question mark in the thread title, right?
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#24re: Daphne Replaced?
Posted: 11/6/06 at 1:12am
Why was that funny?
Because it makes me wish I were young and innocent again.
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