Kerry Butler scheduled to depart Little Shop of Horrors on June 20th -

This is probably for the best; she is AMAZINGLY talented, but, like someone else said, if you are playing Audrey you are either going to be too much like Ellen Greene or not enough. I hadn't heard anything about her leaving, though; maybe Joey Fatone scared her off.

Does anyone know who is going to replace her (and for anyone on the other message board PLEAAAAAAAAAAASE say that jessica simpson was just a joke)

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kerry is so talented i really wish her all the best. Plus could someone tell me please, why do the tony people hate her?

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Thank God!

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I don't think the Tony people hate Kerry, per se, but I think they did snub her for Hairspray. This year the Leading Actress was just too strong I think. I'm eager to see what she is doing next; I heard some rumors about The Little Mermaid musical. She would be great in that!

Margochanning-
No argument here..i wouldn't have replaced any one of the 5 actresses with kerry. I was asking mainly because of last year and more so than her this year was that her show got snubbed(except for hunter) i also hate it that kerry is the only one that gets picked on in that show-as much as i love hunter-i think that kerry does a better job. i know that is not the opinion shared by all, but oh well. as for the tony-wow i can't imagine more talented people competing for it, it will really be an honor to whoever wins to have been up against such talented women. i think all of them deserve to win except one whose name i will not mention but i will defnitely be upset if she gets it!!!

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