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Into The Woods casting updates
#100Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 2:53pm
Even if it is perceived this way or even worse reported this way in the press if they review again, Katrina Lenk joining Into the Woods shouldn’t be considered a ‘redemption’. We were lucky to have her in Company and we’d be lucky to have her in Into the Woods. Sheesh. If people or so called ‘critics’ just want to hear mindless belting Wicked is still open.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 8/4/22 at 02:53 PM
#101Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 3:00pm
You guys. It could be Bette Middler as The Witch who needs a redemption after the TERFy comments. I genuinely doubt she can handle the role though.
(this is a joke, a poor attempt at ~satire~ if you will, please don't drag me)
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
Updated On: 8/8/22 at 03:00 PM
Emmeline Carter
Understudy Joined: 1/26/22
#102Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 3:04pm
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/INTO-THE-WOODS-Featuring-Entire-Original-Cast-to-Extend-Broadway-Run-by-Two-Weeks-20220804
The entire original Broadway cast will extend until September 4th.
singer234
Leading Actor Joined: 8/31/08
#103Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 3:09pm
Could also be Joaquina as the Witch if there’s truth to the Tony Award rumor?
Edit: I see someone already mentioned that!
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#104Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 3:14pm
Valentina3 said: "You guys. It could be Bette Middler as The Witch who needs a redemption after the TERFy comments. I genuinely doubt she can handle the role though."
OFFS
#105Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 3:17pm
This whole thread is such a delicious tease! When is the official announcement happening?
OhHiii
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/16
#106Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 4:16pm
Anyone else get a knot in their stomach on the "critically slammed" comment? Beanie flashed before my eyes and I shuddered at the thought of her as the Baker's Wife.
It said recently closed show, so my money would be on Katrina. I'm SURE Sondheim's favorites are top of mind for Jordan, and it's widely known that Sondheim is who handpicked Katrina for Company after that JRB concert and other more A-list names had turned down the role.
#107Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 7:19pm
Anyone ever sat in the rear mezz of the St. James? Trying to buy tickets but am deciding between splurging for an orchestra seat or settling for rear mezz.
#108Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 7:25pm
I sat there for ITW. I had a hard time seeing the front of the stage at times because of people leaning forward. I’d splurge for the orchestra.
rg7759
Leading Actor Joined: 5/6/16
#109Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 7:28pm
Surprised everyone is so comfortable with calling this cast ' original cast'. While technically true it's misleading. It's not accurate for this production and people could obviously also mistake it for...the actual original broadway cast.
wicked4l
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/06
#110Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 7:38pm
"Could also be Joaquina as the Witch if there’s truth to the Tony Award rumor? Edit: I see someone already mentioned that!"
Adrienne Warren.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#111Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 9:04pm
rg7759 said: "Surprised everyone is so comfortable with calling this cast ' original cast'. While technically true it's misleading. It's not accurate for this production and people could obviously also mistake it for...the actual original broadway cast."
No one would ever think that.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#112Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 9:56pm
I mean it is the originally cast of this run so... not wrong?
#113Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 10:00pm
I can’t picture AW as the witch. Now let’s get Deborah Cox
#114Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 10:09pm
OhHiii said: "Anyone else get a knot in their stomach on the "critically slammed" comment? Beanie flashed before my eyes and I shuddered at the thought of her as the Baker's Wife."
Beanie would be such a good Little Red though. I'm not joking
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#115Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 11:16pm
“While technically true”
..while actually true. It’s the original cast of this production. Nothing to fight over here
#116Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/4/22 at 11:46pm
Sorry, I posted a link that I just realized was posted earlier.
Updated On: 8/5/22 at 11:46 PM#117Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 5:22am
Understand it’s not popular for everyone but the dream for me would be they are talking to Patti to have her close the show for the last 4 weeks or so to give a boost to the box office assuming things slow a little after Sara etc leave (I know we are hoping it’s the next Chicago but still). Patti’s ‘Last Midnight’ would be pretty special. Sondheim is her greatest musical artist influence and after so many years of playing second fiddle to Bernadette in the 80s and 90s it could be yet another successful outing for her to stick it to Bernadette in her very successful career revival/peak she has had in the last 20 years. So I could see it happening. This is just too good for diva gay fan service gossip to not think about! (I know some may believe the competition between them is exaggerated but I have heard directly from ‘insiders’ that Patti certainly is/was not indifferent to Bernadette’s success). Of course, Bernadette will hopefully be just fine having the last laugh in ‘Square One’.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 8/5/22 at 05:22 AM
#118Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 6:13am
WldKingdomHM said: "I can’t picture AW as the witch. Now let’s get Deborah Cox"
THIS. I LOVE me some Deborah Cox!
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#119Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 8:29ambinau said: " Sondheim is her [Patti's] greatest musical artist influence and after so many years of playing second fiddle to Bernadette in the 80s and 90s it could be yet another successful outing for her to stick it to Bernadette in her very successful career revival/peak she has had in the last 20 years. "
Um... What? Lol. Kinda nonsense to pit these artists against each other outside of an competitive awards setting. Patti was not a second fiddle to anyone, neither was Peters.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#120Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 9:18am
Valentina3 said: "binau said: " Sondheim is her [Patti's] greatest musical artist influence and after so many years of playing second fiddle to Bernadette in the 80s and 90s it could be yet another successful outing for her to stick it to Bernadette in her very successful career revival/peak she has had in the last 20 years. "
Um... What? Lol. Kinda nonsense to pit these artists against each other outside of an competitive awards setting. Patti was not a second fiddle to anyone, neither was Peters. "
Patti LuPone tried to replace Bernadette in Sunday but wasn’t cast as Sondheim famously said he didn’t want belting, was in the running for the Witch but wanted to play Cinderella and later negotiations ‘broke down’ but then “then Bernadette [Peters] got billing and everything else I wanted”. Meanwhile her career is hurting because of Sunset and Bernadette performs Whistle at C Hall, debuts her Sondheim concert, and wins her second Tony. Patti said she was ‘convinced Sondheim hated me’. Sam Mendes has lined up Patti to star in Gypsy but Laurents stops her from doing the role and gives it to Bernadette (before doing a complete 180 and directing her himself just a few years later). It doesn’t actually stop there, with Patti calling Trevor Nunn about Night Music who ‘didn’t call her back’ and then Bernadette eventually doing the role after Sondheim recommended her personally.
While it’s easy to dismiss their rivalry as gay fan gossip and maybe it is, I have heard from people that have worked with Patti it hasn’t gone unnoticed. However, my speculation that she is enjoying her career revival in this context has no basis what so ever but it’s hard to think someone with Patti’s strong personality wouldn’t. It’s only in the last 15-20 years, essentially since Sweeney Todd that Patti really established herself as a Sondheim girl - who according to her became her biggest musical artist career influence (David Mamet biggest play influence) - holding her own against Bernadette’s position. Between Sweeney, Gypsy, War Paint and Company in my opinion Patti has become the most important Broadway diva in the last 15 years - taking the crown off Bernadette. I think their careers peaked at different times.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 8/5/22 at 09:18 AM
InTheKnowEvenIfYouDontBelieve
Understudy Joined: 7/21/22
#121Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 10:35amrg7759 said: "Surprised everyone is so comfortable with calling this cast ' original cast'. While technically true it's misleading. It's not accurate for this production and people could obviously also mistake it for...the actual original broadway cast."
If this confuses someone they could simply try being less dumb.
InTheKnowEvenIfYouDontBelieve
Understudy Joined: 7/21/22
#122Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 10:38am
I really don’t want to kill everyone’s excitement but I would bet a million dollars (if I didn’t have $3 in my bank account) that Patti will never being doing a full musica again. You might see her so A song at A concert but it won’t be more than singular songs at big events. You might see a cabaret show or concert. But Patti has said goodbye to the Broadway musical stage.
#123Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 11:17am
InTheKnowEvenIfYouDontBelieve said: "But Patti has said goodbye to the Broadway musical stage."
Never say never! I feel like we all said this after the hip replacement and War Paint. I think that the right project/director would get her back on Broadway.
"Ok ok ok ok ok ok ok. Have you guys heard about fidget spinners!?" ~Patti LuPone
InTheKnowEvenIfYouDontBelieve
Understudy Joined: 7/21/22
#124Into The Woods casting updates
Posted: 8/5/22 at 11:20am
Treading carefully but the circumstances are a bit different since War Paint. It’s really not LuPone. If it was, id be milking this scope for tik tok views.
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