Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#1Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:33am
Confirmed...
Rodriguez and Levi to lead FIRST DATE
#2Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:42amOooo what HUGE stars. This should last at least a week now.
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#2Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:45amZachary Levi is a fairly popular TV star - isn't he?
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#3Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:47amVery surpised at the cast changes, I wonder how the originals feel about this?
#5Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:49am
I would say he's marginally popular. CHUCK was only a cult hit that lasted on NBC so long because they didn't have much else going on during those years.
Krysta was on SMASH and we know how well that did.
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#6Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:55amWasn't Megan Hilty involved in readings or out of town at some point?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#7Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:59amMmm Hmmm. There goes Krysta stealing people's parts again. Look what happened to Erin Dilly...
#8Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 12:02pmShe's STILL on a break!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#9Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 12:06pmZachary Levi, talented though he is, certainly isn't enough of a name to really fill seats for this thing.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
wicked4l
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/06
#10Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 12:09pmOk now I am .1% excited to see this. I really like Krysta and Zachary! Still won't last a week after opening.
#11Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 12:10pm
As much as I love this, I still probably will never see this show. Maybe they should have tried to get Mandy for a reunion.
I See the Light
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
broadwayfever
Featured Actor Joined: 6/15/08
#12Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:34pm
I adore Krysta. I think she is the most underrated performer on Broadway. I was lucky enough to see her in Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, In the Heights, and Addam's Family.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#13Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:41pm
I must be out of the loop. Do shows actually open in the summer?
"Mmm Hmmm. There goes Krysta stealing people's parts again. Look what happened to Erin Dilly..."
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
(I love Krysta!!)
#14Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 3:43pm
OK. Now I feel slightly less ashamed in admitting I bought tickets for this when they went on sale several weeks ago.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#15Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 4:41pmThanks to the Vulture.com SMASH updates, she'll always be "Midriff" to me.
#16Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:22pm
Being a fan of Krysta, I'm excited for this, and hope it can succeed.
Sure, it seems unlikely but I wouldn't have thought that Veronica Mars fans would be able to raise almost 6 million dollars to finance their movie so I don't want to underestimate cult fanbases
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#17Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:42pmAnd Krysta is the first to return after Smash. Love her, but this isn't gonna go well.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#18Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:42pm
The Seattle cast has been Dilly-ed by Krysta et al.
Full circle.
#19Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:45pm
"Sure, it seems unlikely but I wouldn't have thought that Veronica Mars fans would be able to raise almost 6 million dollars to finance their movie so I don't want to underestimate cult fanbases"
You're talking about a television show raising money to make a movie of said TV show. It's not like people who watched CHUCK are just clamoring to see whatever Zachary Levi is in after that especially if it's a musical and not some nerdy cult show. These things are in no way similar.
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#20Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:49pm
This thing is gonna flop like a fish out of water.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#21Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 5:55pmI have to say, as a Chuck fan, this absolutely makes me want to see it. It wasn't remotely on my radar before...but that's just me.
#22Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:28pmWhat the f#$@ is this show about? Are they purposely trying to keep details away from the public?
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#23Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:45pmjax, when are you going to the show?
Meyerschultz
Chorus Member Joined: 6/17/09
#24Krysta Rodriguez to lead FIRST DATE
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:47pm
Bettyboy72, it's described in a fair amount of detail on BroadwayWorld.com:
"When tightly wound Aaron (Zachary Levi) is set up with serial-dater Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) a quick drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious, high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds they are not alone on this date as Casey and Aaron's inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons and the wait staff get into the act. Dinner is served with sides of Google background checks, fake emergency phone calls, supportive best friends, manipulative exes and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers and potential conversational land mines. First Date is Broadway's new hysterical and hopeful new musical about the chances we take to find love."
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