Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice? — Page 3

Looking at instagram, it seems Zachary Levi was in. Im not sure about everyone else, although Jane and Laura were out.

The Broadway illuminati must be in a panic right now.  Their conspiracy against ticket-buyers has been discovered!

LMAO LMAO LMAO

Poor OP. He didn't even take a picture of the board to share with us.

Haha. Yeah, now that the truth is coming out that the male leads did in fact perform this evening there is no way that there were two understudy boards as previously reported. One had to have been the cast list. 

Plannietink08 said: "You mean you saw a fantastic Broadway show with performers who have been training their whole lives to get on that stage and are incredibly talented plus you didn't get a refund at the end?

 

My heart bleeds for you. 

 

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he didn't even watch the show.

I actually want to see a show where the ENTIRE cast is out. That would be fun.

So there we have it. Laura Benanti,  Jane Krakowski, Laura Shoop,  and Allison Cimmet are the entire cast. Everyone else on stage is just there because they feel like being up there. If I knew that, I would have joined them when I saw it.

This thread has been a wild ride.

I'm still back on the ol' bait-n-switch methodology of live theatre, for shows to pay stars thousands of dollars, then have them not show up so people [who stop and think] demand refunds, resulting in massive financial losses while they laugh at our consternation.

Updated On: 6/19/16 at 03:46 AM

I don't find the OP to be overly dramatic as others have suggested, and some of the responses here probably increased that person's subsequent defensiveness. And yes, the subject line did the OP no favors since the entire cast most definitely was not out, but still.

If you don't got to theatre very often, you don't necessarily understand the process about understudies and swings, nor do you know that the week after the Tony Award's is often hit or miss for leads. You don't necessarily know to look at Telecharge or other appropriate sites to see if a vacation or other absence notice has been posted since you bought your tickets months ago. You just assume you'll get the show as advertised. Nor do you necessarily know to go to the box office and try for a refund because someone over the title is out.

And if you don't live in NYC or nearby, it is easy to forget that those of us who travel in periodically for shows do often plan months in advance. We also have hundreds if not thousands of dollars involved with flights, hotels, and the like. Maybe the trip and/or the tickets are a gift or a special night out for someone who is a deep fan of one of the performers more than a theatre lover overall.

So joining the board today (which often seems to engender automatic suspicion) and posting a comment that to Broadway or board regulars seems a bit melodramatic and out of touch with how things happen might actually be just what the OP says it is: a frustrated and disappointed patron who was trying to get a sense of what just happened from people who might know.

Before any of us became Insiders, we also were on the outside looking in, not totally clear on how things work. And even insiders can be unsure of things when they find themselves on the outside of a new experience as evidenced in the She Loves Me broadcast thread and all the questions there.

Updated On: 6/19/16 at 04:58 AM

SweetLips said: "When did a musical become a play?

 

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I was actually waiting for this to show up lol

Dancingthrulife2 said: "SweetLips said: "When did a musical become a play?"

I was actually waiting for this to show up lol"

 

Performers themselves actually call it a play even if it's a musical. 

Really, Gypsy? You're gonna call someone a loser? You're being just as dramatic, girl.