Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?- Page 2

[MichelleCraig]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#25

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:10pm

Richard Burton and Robert Goulet in CAMELOT...but Goulet became Burton later on. 

[Notreallysilent 2]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#26

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:31pm

steven22 said: "WICKED cast members return all the time after they leave! 

 

"Yeah a ton of them do. Off the top of my head I know Christine Dwyer actually returned 3 times to wicked in a matter of a year. And I guess more if you count going from the tour to Broadway.

 

[non-stop26]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#27

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:31pm

Didn't Andrew Rannels replace him early on in the run for a short period of time? 

[pupscotch]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#28

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:39pm

Alan Cumming returned to the Emcee in the last revival of the show.

[LizzieCurry]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#29

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:42pm

non-stop26 said: "Didn't Andrew Rannels replace him early on in the run for a short period of time? "

 

If by "Rannels" you mean "Rannells," and by "him" you mean JCM, then yes.

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[non-stop26]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#30

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:49pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "non-stop26 said: "Jonathan Groff, Hamilton"

Well, this is just patently false (at least at this moment in time).

 

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Didn't Andrew Rannells replace him for a short period of time early on in the run though?

 

[Call_me_jorge]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#31

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:50pm

LizzieCurry said: "non-stop26 said: "Didn't Andrew Rannels replace him early on in the run for a short period of time? "

 

If by "Rannels" you mean "Rannells," and by "him" you mean JCM, then yes.

http://www.playbill.com/personlistpage/person-list?production=00000150-aea8-d936-a7fd-eefc73630001&type=op#oc

 

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I think non-stop was referring to the groff convo.

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[non-stop26]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#32

Posted: 4/18/16 at 9:52pm

LizzieCurry said: "non-stop26 said: "Didn't Andrew Rannels replace him early on in the run for a short period of time? "

 

If by "Rannels" you mean "Rannells," and by "him" you mean JCM, then yes.

http://www.playbill.com/personlistpage/person-list?production=00000150-aea8-d936-a7fd-eefc73630001&type=op#oc

 

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Haha stupid auto correct, but I was trying to quote a different message and it didn't really work 

 

[EvanK]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#33

Posted: 4/18/16 at 10:10pm

Idina Menzel returned to Wicked for London. 

 

Shoshaba Bean/ Megan stepped in for 3 stops on tour.

 

Laura Bell Bundy stepped in on tour for legally blonde. 

 

Eden Espinoda / Megan did wicked LA... 

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#34

Posted: 4/18/16 at 10:32pm

Shoshana Bean     Eden Espinosa

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[ClumsyDude15]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#35

Posted: 4/18/16 at 10:36pm

Nic Rouleau has returned to Elder Price in Book of Mormon several times, but he's never really left - just changed companies. 

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[Alex10]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#36

Posted: 4/18/16 at 10:37pm

Not quite the same thing, but Laura Michelle Kelly originated Mary Poppins in London and later played the role on Broadway.

[lucillefrank]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#37

Posted: 4/18/16 at 10:39pm

My first thought was Carolee Carmello in Mamma Mia. She left to do Lestat and then returned to play the role for 3 more years. 

i've got 99 problems and a revival of parade would solve like 94 of them

[@z5]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#38

Posted: 4/18/16 at 10:40pm

Nathan Lane in It's Only a Play

Idina for If/Then, she toured on it on off, if that counts.

Michael C. Hall in Hedwig last year for a week after JCM was hurt.

Billy Porter in kinky Boots (I believe)

 

[Queen of the Night]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#39

Posted: 4/18/16 at 11:21pm

Oh, and several of the ladies in Chicago keep coming back....like Amra-Faye Wright as the multi-repeat Velma and Charlotte D'Amboise as the eternal Roxie.

[haterobics]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#40

Posted: 4/18/16 at 11:30pm

I was once in a midtown restaurant, and Idina Menzel was there with her party before a matinee and she was eating a bagel, but just barely picking on it, while they all talked. The entire party got up to leave, and Idina excused herself, doubled back, put the rest of the bagel in her purse, looked at me, put her finger over her mouth and said "Shhhh!" and then left the building. Does that count?

[LimelightMike]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#41

Posted: 4/18/16 at 11:39pm

Jeff McCarthy, the original Officer Lockstock in Broadway’s URINETOWN, returned to the role to close the show in 2004.

 

How he didn't get a TONY nominations and win is beyond me... 

[Timmer]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#43

Posted: 4/19/16 at 12:22am

In Kelli O'Hara's case, I think she left South Pacific due to pregnancy.  She was replaced by Laura Osnes.  Then when her leave was up, she resumed the role.  I believe that when she left the show again, they went back to laura Osnes.  Replacing teh same actress in the same role in the same production twice is quite a feat!  

[sorano916]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#44

Posted: 4/19/16 at 12:48am

Here's one that's a little bit interesting:

 

Joshua Henry originated the featured ensemble role of "Favorite Son" in American Idiot . He stayed from March 2010 to July 2010 before heading off to The Scottsboro Boys at the Guthrie and then Broadway, where it closed in December 2010. He then return to American Idiot back as "Favorite Son" from March 2011 to its closing about a month later. He received a Tony nomination as Best Actor that season for The Scottsboro Boys.

[neonlightsxo]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#45

Posted: 4/19/16 at 8:02am

Nic Rouleau in Book of Mormon. 

Also, Will Swenson came back to play Javert for awhile in the current Les Miz after he left the company. There are hundreds of examples.

Updated On: 4/19/16 at 08:02 AM

[haterobics]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#46

Posted: 4/19/16 at 8:34am

neonlightsxo said: "Also, Will Swenson came back to play Javert for awhile in the current Les Miz after he left the company."

 

 

Didn't he just take a 10-week leave of absence to do Bull Durham in Atlanta? Not sure he ever officially left the show and then returned.

[neonlightsxo]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#47

Posted: 4/19/16 at 8:39am

This is a separate incident. He came back after officially leaving the show when Earl Carpenter was injured. But please, argue with me some more.

[Call_me_jorge]

Have Broadway actors ever returned to a role after leaving?#48

Posted: 4/19/16 at 8:39am

^he actually returned, because the person who replaced him(earl carpenter?) received an injury.

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