New Hedwig after JCM?- Page 3

[Robbie2]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 5:54pm

JCM only has a cult following from the original off-broadway production, recording and film...other than that nobody knows who he is unfortunately but HE IS HEDWIG and personally can't wait for the experience! That's the question...will a new Hedwig come in after or will it close with JCM?

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 5:58pm

There are so few people that can do it after JCM without seeming like a bad drag act. The double-edged sword of JCM is that you see what the role actually is with such clarity, the person after him will be difficult to measure up.

[Navin Johnson]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:07pm

Will never happen, especially since they'll probably go back to TV/film star names after JCM, but after hearing this, I really would kill to see Norbert Leo Butz take a crack at Hedwig:
Wig in a Box

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:12pm

Haterobics, that's exactly what I was just thinking and ready to post. Whomever has to follow JCM could only pale in comparison. OF course, the tourist trade only seeing the show for the first time, would probably like some other singer who can dance.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:17pm

It has been so long without seeing JCM perform the role, I had convinced myself I had perhaps built him up to be so much more than he really was, and thought that I was unfairly judging NPH, AR, and MCH against some unrealistic ideal I had invented over the years.

Then, I saw JCM this week, and was like, oh, it was everything I remembered and more.

Honestly, I think the best thing to do after JCM is to bring NPH for an encore run to close it out. Isn't he free until his variety show in the fall?

That said, I will consider my ticket to JCM's last show as the actual end of the run.

[macnyc]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:18pm

^^^ I'm with you. Exactly!

[South Florida]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:23pm

Uncool, need an extension, only one I've seen is NPH, he should stretch it out through peak season just for me.

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:26pm

Can you imagine if Bowie replaced?

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:29pm

You have 7 weeks, and flights from Florida to NYC run daily...

[South Florida]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:38pm

I know, got the wife a ticket and flight for her daughter's bday in mid Feb. I really wanna see him but want to see Fun Home more and ......choices.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:50pm

Well, I don't see Fun Home closing before June, if you can do both by pushing it out a bit...

Keep in mind, I could be entirely wrong, of course.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 6:57pm

Can you imagine if Bowie replaced?

Not really, but Bowie did produce the show in LA.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 7:01pm

Well, Bowie would put such a stamp on it, it certainly wouldn't have the issue of being compared to JCM...

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 7:10pm

I love Bowie but I don't know if i see him as vulnerable at all.

[South Florida]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 7:11pm

He's 67

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 7:12pm

Well, to be fair, it would just be Bowie singing Hedwig songs onstage, but still.... I'd go.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 7:12pm

^ haha, and there's that, meaning he's 67

Updated On: 1/25/15 at 07:12 PM

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 9:57pm

Since he's not doing it any more, may we hear the one-liner about Kathy Griffin that JCM used to "ad lib"?

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 11:13pm

I think you have it backwards... NPH, AR, and MCH had a joke about Griffin that used to be in this run. It was not used by JCM...

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 11:45pm

I Google'd it not too long ago, I believe the joke was that he licked the floor and said, "Tastes like Kathy Griffin."

I hope JCM extends his run.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/25/15 at 11:51pm

Well, that wouldn't be the joke. That would be the punchline.

[SDV]

Posted: 1/26/15 at 12:14am

The joke is still in there, he just replaced Kathy Griffin with another name. Am I not supposed to spoil it?

[darreyl102]

Posted: 1/26/15 at 12:20am

I get why they are doing it, but it seems weird to me to bring JCM in as a filler of sorts till they get a name in the show. I mean- this is his show and i was hoping he would come in to close the show to bring it full circle.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/26/15 at 12:32am

There's no proof he isn't closing the show yet.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 1/26/15 at 1:02am

Well the rumor seems to be that someone else is coming in- those are just rumors, but you never know, especially considered JCM had stated many times he would not step back into the role- and did.