gleek4114 said: "theaterdarling said: "If he is coming back to Broadway in a fifteen year old show as the millionth Fiyero he needs to fire his entire management team, Star or not a star, this would be such a huge come down. Not quite sure on what planet this would occur on or on what cold day. That the mostly knowledgeable denizens of these boards would seriously float this is so puzzling to me. What a death wish for someone who otherwise seems to have very little ill-will aimed at him.
He's earned some of that nifty TV money and with that as a cushion, I can only imagine (and hope) that if he is coming back to NY for a musical it will be something more dignified and career enhancing than "Wicked." Sheesh, why don't we aim high for the guy and speculate that he is in the new Sondheim/Bunuel show especially since Mantello revealed this seems to be happening sooner rather than later and others noting on TBITB thread that a spot has opened up at The Public? Perhaps he is taking the part that Matthew Morrison did in the reading a couple of years back (I do enjoy the sorta symmetry since Harvey Weinstein replaced JJ with Matthew Morrison for the Broadway run of "Neverland" after the ART run).
Jordan was, of course, in "A Bed and A Chair" and the "Opening Doors" number for the HBO doc Six by Sondheim and WSS revival, so he seems to have the Sondheim seal of approval.
My completely uninformed but humble and hunch-y opinion, if that if not this, only something of this caliber would/could/should bring him back."
While I wouldn't call Wicked a "step down",normally I would agree that it would be a strange choice, BUT we're coming up on the show's 15th, which is a milestone of sorts, and might lend itself to more opportunities to anniversary cast members rather than any other year he might happen to join the cast."
The speculation about the Sondheim show is interesting. I'm in the camp that believes that in order to voluntarily give up a regular TV gig, he would have to be working on something pretty big as a return to the stage, and those plans would have to go back several months in order to facilitate the Supergirl writers giving him an escape route. Whatever his plans are, they did not just recently materialize. The Sondheim project would be big enough to justify that kind of commitment.