Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 3:32pm
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104215.html
Philip Casnoff, star of famous flops Shogun, Chess, and Rockabye Hamlet will succeed Huey Lewis as Billy Flynn, beginning January 15. He is playing the role through March 25, opposite Bebe Neuworth.
Updated On: 12/14/06 at 03:32 PM
#1re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 3:34pmHe's very talented and should do well as Billy Flynn.
#2re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 3:41pm
I have to get him to sign my Shogun playbill and my Chess CD cover. Definitely seeing this show again with him. Thanks for the info!!!
Maybe I can ask him about when he got injured during a press preview of Shogun (I think the set fell on him or something like that)
#3re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 3:46pmHe was the standby for Hamlet in Rockabye Hamlet! I wonder if he ever went on...
#4re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 3:47pmI have to say, he was terrible in both Chess and Shogun, imo.
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#5re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 3:59pm
Rockabye Hamlet had 21 previews and 7 performances (28 total) so I highly doubt that Philip Casnoff went on as Hamlet or Laertes.
Then again, High Fidelity only had 18 previews and 14 performances (32 total) and the star has missed 3.5 performances so far.
So I guess by that logic, Philip could have gone on for one of the 28 shows back in 1976. Maybe I will ask him.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 6:44pm
Shogun was alledgedly to be an opera according to the composer
I saw it & the production was georgeous. Even with an explanation in the Playbill, it was hard to follow. It was folly to try & compress that big of a book for a musical
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#7re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 7:06pm
"...Shogun was alledgedly to be an opera according to the composer..."
Paul Chihara, the composer, was also quoted in TheatreWeek magazine declaring his score for SHOGUN to be the finest American score since Show Boat.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy Flynn
Posted: 12/14/06 at 7:33pmSeems to be quite modest
Broadway Matt
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/17/03
#9re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy
Posted: 12/15/06 at 12:23amIt's about time! Casnoff is an amazing talent who has quite obviously not had much of a chance to shine on Broadway. Not that he's been hurting for work over the last 20 years.
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#10re: Flop Lovers Delight: Chess/Shogun star Philp Casnoff is the Next Billy
Posted: 1/1/07 at 8:21pmJust ordered my Chess CD (surprisingly, i didn't own it yet) and a Shogun playbill off of ebay to prepare for Casnoff's arrival in Chicago. I'll probably see it sometime in the end of January.
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