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#26

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:32am

Rath:

"First... Ben Davis' last show was on Saturday, June 16, and Mandy Bruno's was today, June 17. As for their replacements, Robert Hunt (who was in the ensemble of this production and a Javert on the tour) will be rejoining the show in a couple of weeks. Understudies will be going in for both roles in the meantime."

My guess is they didn't find a replacement yet and are just going to have the understudies go on. Perhaps they'll then upgrade one understudy (probably Megan) to take the role full time, upgrade a swing to an understudy, and meanwhile find more replacements to put into the cast when needed.

Even after reading that I wondered if there was an actual replacement announced, and Lea simply forgot to mention it.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

Updated On: 6/18/07 at 09:32 AM

#27

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:35am

Because she hasn't been officially announced? That seems weird. Mandy was announced as the replacement for Celia long before Celia left, but I guess since Mandy was "fired" or replaced or whatever they didn't have time to announce her in time.
#28

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:35am

It kind of looks like she just forgot to mention it. My friend was offered the cover, but she turned it down. I'm very interested to know who the replacement is, if there is one. I know they had Megan at that audition as well, so perhaps they're going to move her up?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#29

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 11:48am

p.s. - Lea Salonga confirmed that she's performing at Les Miz on July 4th and they will only be playing a song she recorded at the Macy's Fireworks celebration.
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#30

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 12:01pm

Thank you. I see that now.

Macy's 7/4 Features Soundtrack with Rose, Young, Salonga

"...will perform the prerecorded score of the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Celebration, taking place in New York City at 9 PM.

Please note that the stars will not perform live."


p.s. Mabuhay Lea.



Updated On: 6/18/07 at 12:01 PM

#31

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 12:06pm

I've only heard Bruno sing "On My Own" on the site we cannot mention here, but it was probably the worst rendition of the song that I've ever heard. They will probably promote from the inside, but I think the best choice for the role is Brooke Sunny Moriber (The Wild Party, The Threepenny Opera). I have no idea if it's true or not, but I heard that she auditioned for the part during the initial process. She'd be amazing. (And, she also played Young Cosette and Eponine during the first run of the show. It could be a fun story, a la Lea Michele.)

I'm extremely happy for Bob Hunt. I did a play with him years ago and he's such a sweet, genuinely talented person.
"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
#32

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 12:35pm

According to BWW:

Megan McGinnis steps into the role of Eponine, beginning tomorrow night.

Robert Hunt steps into Javert, beginning July 16. Drew Sarich and Ben Crawford will alternate the role in the interim.

Ann Harada is staying put.

Chip Zien is Thenardier from June 29 until further notice.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=19327
"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
#33

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 12:57pm

Why is megan being announced as if she's jsut joining the company? Hasn't she been understudying Eponine already?
#34

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 1:00pm

I think it's just bad phrasing. But yeah, she's always been Eponine understudy.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#35

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 1:07pm

According to his website, it looks like Robert Hunt's sudden promotion will keep him from doing several shows he's already signed onto, including Les Miz at the MUNY...
#37

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 1:23pm

I am so confused. Don't get me wrong, I really like Robert Hunt as Javert, I just don't see how his voice will go better with the orchestrations, or how he'll be doing anything that Ben Davis couldn't have been doing if directed.
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."' ~Lewis Carroll
#38

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 1:25pm

Wow- congrats to Megan!!! I'm sooo excited for her. She's fabulous in the role and I can't wait to see her again!
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#40

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:25pm

I'm seeing Les Mis July 4th and can't wait to see Megan in this role! I hope she's in that day. And Lea too.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#41

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:27pm

Does anyone know why Ben Davis is leaving early? According to his website he was supposed to stay with the show until September.
#45

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 6:12pm

I think Cameron Mackintosh does these things just to prove that he's still a diva. That being said, it's really unfair that some talented people and some rising stars, as well as all the fans, have been hurt by his actions.

He's doing an awful job of casting the Les Mis revival. The only cast member so far I've really gone, "Oh, that's great casting!" was Lea Salonga, and she had to wait out Daphne Rubin-Vega, who shouldn't be doing musicals at all.
Cosette: Roses are red. Marius: Violets are blue. Eponine: You're so in love! Marius: And so not with you.
#46

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 7:09pm

mikem - "I notice that Lea doesn't mention anything about Ann Harada."

Ann Harada is staying.



"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#47

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 7:28pm

Salonga specified that understudies would be going on as both Javert and Eponine in the meantime.

Does this mean Megan McGinnis's promotion is only a temporary one?
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#50

re: Les Miz cast changes -- Post them here!

Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:44pm

Hey now, he's improved. (And they let him ditch the wig, SCORE.)

Besides, Max is easily one of the better members of the now-decimated Les Mis cast. Ann, Gary, and Alex would probably get voted off before him.

(What would be the Les Mis version of Survivor anyway? "Who's going to be first up against the wall when the revolution comes?")

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