Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, and Nicholas Christopher in 2025 Chess Revival!- Page 19

[GirlFromOz68]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 4:48am

TheatreFan4 said: "GirlFromOz68 said: "
it would be nice if we could go a day without pitching women against each other."

I'm not pitting them against each other, Lea just has a horrible ass attitude and I very much feel like that that is the reality of the situation that her divadom would never allow her to be overshadowed byher understudy which would happen if Hannah went on for her."

you really need to stop believing everything some people in the Glee cast say. im not saying Lea was perfect but multiple people have said that stuff was blown out of proportion and the diva stuff was from some female cast members who had a bad case of the green eyed monster and some of whom know they will only get attention by saying negative things about Lea.

The Funny Girl cast has been uniform in their praise of Lea as a nice person and good leader.  Anne Nathan,  who also worked with Lea when she was a child in Ragtime said Lea was very generous to people backstage and was a real leader of the company.

others have said the same. certain female members of the Glee cast ( and I mean those around from season 1 ) shouldn't be given the final word on Lea as a person. 

 

[Owen22]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 6:19am

TheatreFan4 said: "GirlFromOz68 said: "
it would be nice if we could go a day without pitching women against each other."

I'm not pitting them against each other, Lea just has a horrible ass attitude and I very much feel like that that is the reality of the situation that her divadom would never allow her to be overshadowed byher understudy which would happen if Hannah went on for her."

Oh please. No one is going to EVER overshadow the talent that is Lea Michelle.

[GirlFromOz68]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 6:55am

in other news, Nik posted a pic on his IG stories of the table of folders and I zoomed in on Daniel Beaman's folder and he is the understudy for The Arbiter and Walter and him as the Arbiter understudy makes a lot of sense.

[quizking101]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 8:20am

GirlFromOz68 said: "in other news, Nik posted a pic on his IG stories of the table of folders and I zoomed in on Daniel Beaman's folder and he is the understudy for The Arbiter and Walter and him as the Arbiter understudy makes a lot of sense."

Using that same method, here is what I saw:

U/S Freddie: Aleks Pevec, Adam Halpin

U/S Anatoly: Casey Garvin, Ramone Nelson

U/S Florence: Katerina Papacostas, Samantha Pollino

U/S Svetlana: Samantha Pollino

U/S Arbiter: Daniel Beeman

U/S Molokov: Shavey Brown

U/S Walter: Shavey Brown, Daniel Beeman

Michael Milkanin also appears to be understudying roles, but I couldn’t read the binder beyond the U/S

In that same picture, it also appears that Mark Jacoby has been cast as Florence’s father.

 

Updated On: 9/3/25 at 08:20 AM

[Ball of Buttah]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 8:35am

bway1430 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Every time this happens I'm tempted to write my Magnum Opus about how 90% of these diva stories don't even add up. But that would turn this thread into an epic mess."

It already is."

Thank goodness for MP's restraint. This thread is nowhere near MHE's mess of a thread. Hopefully it never gets there. I'll be seeing this on Nov 4 and report on what the "almost concert" is about. At least I know there'll be phenomenal singing all around. 

 

[Huss417]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 9:33am

Ball of Buttah said: "bway1430 said: "Mary_Poppins said: "Every time this happens I'm tempted to write my Magnum Opus about how 90% of these diva stories don't even add up. But that would turn this thread into an epic mess."

It already is."

Thank goodness for MP's restraint. This thread is nowhere near MHE's mess of a thread. Hopefully it never gets there. I'll be seeing this on Nov 4 and report on what the "almost concert" is about. At least I know there'll be phenomenal singing all around.

"

I think we will know well before November 4th. :) Also I am glad to see this thread has been wiped of a lot of the back and forth garbage that had persisted.

Updated On: 9/3/25 at 09:33 AM

[gibsons2]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 9:38am

TheatreFan4 said: "GirlFromOz68 said: "
it would be nice if we could go a day without pitching women against each other."

I'm not pitting them against each other, Lea just has a horrible ass attitude and I very much feel like that that is the reality of the situation that her divadom would never allow her to be overshadowed byher understudy which would happen if Hannah went on for her."

Did you pull this conclusion that has no basis in reality out of your ass? You're like one of these tiktokers who keep repeating the "she can't read" joke. It's tiresome and it's dumb.

You also might be aware of the fact that people change as they age. It's called prefrontal lobe development. That's why things that we did as teens and in our early 20s make us cringe and feel shame. Women who have children undergo drastic change to their brain chemistry. Lea is almost a 40 years old woman and a mother. It is entirely possible to believe that she has changed from what she used to be. And there's evidence to that.

We all change. If you haven't and perceive people around you on the same level as you did as a teen, it's out of norm.

[GirlFromOz68]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 9:56am

quizking101 said: "GirlFromOz68 said: "in other news, Nik posted a pic on his IG stories of the table of folders and I zoomed in on Daniel Beaman's folder and he is the understudy for The Arbiter and Walter and him as the Arbiter understudy makes a lot of sense."

Using that same method, here is what I saw:

U/S Freddie: Aleks Pevec, Adam Halpin

U/S Anatoly: Casey Garvin, Ramone Nelson

U/S Florence: Katerina Papacostas, Samantha Pollino

U/S Svetlana: Samantha Pollino

U/S Arbiter: Daniel Beeman

U/S Molokov: Shavey Brown

U/S Walter: Shavey Brown, Daniel Beeman

Michael Milkanin also appears to be understudying roles, but I couldn’t read the binder beyond the U/S

In that same picture, it also appears that Mark Jacoby has been cast as Florence’s father.

"

well done! you did better than me and I had been looking for who would be Florence's dad.

That's a nice touch having Mark be Lea's character's father as they were both in the original cast of Ragtime.

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 10:06am

Very close - Peter Friedman played Lea’s father in Ragtime. Mark Jacoby was indeed named ‘Father’, though. 

[GirlFromOz68]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 10:12am

BorisTomashevsky said: "Very close - Peter Friedman played Lea’s father in Ragtime. Mark Jacoby was indeed named‘Father’, though."

I'm well aware that Peter Friedman played her father in Ragtime, I said Mark Jacoby was in Ragtime with  her not that her played her father.  When I said it was a nice touch he was playing Lea's character' father I meant Florence's father in Chess, not Ragtime. 

Updated On: 9/3/25 at 10:12 AM