Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting

[being.jeremiah]

Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#1

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:04pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/112886.html

"Directed by former Encores! artistic director Walter Bobbie, Nanette will feature the previously announced Rosie O'Donnell as Pauline and Tony winner Beth Leavel as Lucille Early. Joining the duo onstage will be Sandy Duncan as Sue Smith, Fred Willard as Jimmy Smith, Shonn Wiley as Tom and Mara Davi as Nanette.

Randy Skinner will choreograph the production with musical direction by Rob Fisher." Updated On: 11/17/07 at 01:04 PM

[Keelay]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#2

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:14pm

Sounds amazing! I love this show given the type of show it is and when it was originally produced.

All the women cast seem more than appropriate for their parts and very promising!

Who'd have guessed Fred Willard?! Love the idea.

And who's playing Billy Early?!

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#2

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:36pm

Now when are they going to announce the APPLAUSE cast? I thought they would have announced it before the NO, NO, NANETTE cast.

"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"

[folkyboy]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#3

Posted: 11/17/07 at 2:37pm

does anyone know when Encores! sends tickets to new subscribers? i subscribed a long time ago and still haven't gotten mine

[Heybeenfood]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#4

Posted: 11/17/07 at 5:15pm

I was kind of hoping for Mara Davi to play Eve Harrington in "Applause," but I am glad to see her in this too.

[RyToast1]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#5

Posted: 11/17/07 at 5:21pm

FolkyBoy,

Tickets for Encores subscribers were mailed out a few weeks ago. PM me, and I can look into it when I get to work on Monday.

[TomMonster]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#6

Posted: 11/17/07 at 5:35pm

I got my season tickets 2 weeks ago. You should get them shortly!

"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

[bwayjuvinile]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#7

Posted: 11/17/07 at 7:09pm

Should be good, I like this show, even though its a little old fashion...still fun night out!

http://hometown.aol.com/bwayjuvinile/bwayvids

[alterego]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#8

Posted: 11/17/07 at 9:03pm

Next stop Broadway! I do hope that they have Donald Saddler as some sort of Choreographic adviser. His choreography for the 70's revival was magic (and it won him a Tony too).

[theaterkid1015]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#9

Posted: 11/17/07 at 9:42pm

Ray, I thought the same thing.

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

[alterego]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#10

Posted: 11/18/07 at 6:56pm

Sandy Duncan is perfect for the role of Sue. APPLAUSE isn't much of a show, I think there is more interest in NANETTE, and they have their star for APPLAUSE in Christine Ebersole.

[theaterkid1015]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#11

Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:31pm

You're probably right, but I would still rather know in chronological order.

That may just be my neuroses speaking.

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Encores! NO, NO NANETTE additional casting#12

Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:45pm

Well, I think APPLAUSE is a pretty mediocre show and Ebersole is not enough to get me to buy tickets so I need them to announce more casting to decide whether I want to see the show or not.
If Erin Davie, Annie Hathaway, Anika Noni Rose, or someone of that sorts ends up playing Eve Harrington, I'll definitely head there come February. That's why I'm a bit impatient about the press release about the casting.
Same thing happened last year with FOLLIES, when Clark was announced I wasn't convinced, the second I learned Donna Murphy had been cast, I went online and got a ticket.

"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"