Islander_fan said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I don't know anything aboutMIDNIGHT's intentions or FLOYD's casting process, but if MIDNIGHT is aiming for Broadway in Spring 2024 then they may have only wanted to cast people in the Chicago run who are also available next Spring."
As was stated earlier in the thread, no one knows what the future would hold for the Midnight post Chicago run. Sure, it may aim for Broadway but not make it. It may aim for Broadway and end up making it there. We just don’t know. But, the thing to add on to what was said earlier is this. Remember, it’s two different contracts for Midnight. One for the Chicago run, and then a totally new one if they do in fact take the show to Broadway.Pasquale, should he be offered the role in Floyd Collins, would then have to make a choice.
I’m drawing a blank, but didn’t a similar thing happen this season with an actor who was in both out of town runs of The Notebook and Water for Elephants? I am forgetting who it was but I believe they decided to go to Broadway with The Notebook instead of Water for Elephants."
They're technically two different contracts but in the case of MIDNIGHT and most other pre-Broadway engagements at a nonprofit, everything was set up by the commercial producer. So yes they're on a Goodman Theatre contract, but an actor of Pasquale or JHG's stature is going to have a not-unsubstantial Right Of First Refusal agreement + probably a little extra money from the commercial side to offset a regional theatre scale salary.
You're thinking of Ryan Vasquez, who did the out of towns of The Outsiders, The Notebook, and Water for Elephants. He chose to stick with Notebook. That stuff happens. Sometimes a show has a clear trajectory and timeline for Broadway, sometimes it does not. Sometimes it THINKS it does and then they realize it's worse off than they think :)
Regardless, it's a waste of all our time to speculate when nothing has been announced.
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