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Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
#25Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 5:24pm
Typical reaction from Broadway World members.
He did a good job in Hairspray and this will keep the show open keeping a lot of Broadway actors and crew in jobs, it's a good thing. Let's see him in the role first before everyone shoots him down shall we
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#26Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 5:31pm
"It's a fairly lightweight role, he's an amiable enough singer, and I think he has enough presence to pull the role off."
Desperately wrong. This is not Link or Marius, this is a role that has twice won actors Tonys on Broadway in a Pulitzer Prize winning musical. Finch CARRIES the entire show. There's a million things you can do to this role to captivate audiences. To be successful in this role, you pretty much have to think on your toes. As much maligned as it is here and on ATC, the '95 revival with Broderick was one of the most entertaining evenings I've ever spent in a Broadway show. Matthew Broderick had the audience eating out of his hand. Finch is not a vanilla character, he's multi-layered, nuanced, coquettish, quirky, sly and witty, almost Chaplin-esque anti-hero. Or is he a hero? Well, that's for the audience to decide. A successful Finch should fool the audience into rooting for him. I would never use any of those words to describe Nick Jonas.
Is Nick Jonas even FUNNY? Sure, he can sing, but Finch should be played by an actor who sings, not a singer who acts. It's like throwing a big name in Funny Girl...the actor playing Fanny should be a comedian, not just a B'way belter. Nobody can direct an actor to be funny. They either are or they ain't. Nick Jonas ain't.
This is why I hate Broadway anymore. Everything needs a star, whether or not the material needs it.
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#27Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 5:55pm
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
#28Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 5:57pm
Am I the only one pleased with this casting? I think it's a very interesting and good choice.
Nick is clearly trying to break his Disney name and go back to his musical theatre roots, why not give him a chance?
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#29Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:12pm
Nope - I'm pleased too! I think it's a bit of inspired casting.
Nick got his start in theatre before he crossed-over. He was great as Link and this is a fantastic production that deserves to run as long as it can. I even enjoyed it more that the Broderick H2$!
To all the nay-sayers, give the poor kid a chance! You might be impressed.
#30Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:19pm
This is why I hate Broadway anymore. Everything needs a star, whether or not the material needs it.
You hate Broadway anymore? Who let you out of high school? I hate to be the grammar police but oh boy..
As much as I like How to Succeed I think it's a show that won't draw the crowds on name alone. Your average tourist probably isn't familiar with the movie. I think it does need a "star". The last revival had one. Yes, Broderick does have Broadway ties he was also recognizable to the tourists thanks to his film work. And when he left the show he was replaced by John Stamos. A recognizable name.
And there are shows doing very well without with a "star". Book of Mormon doesn't have a "star". Yes you could argue that the creative team are the "names" but it's doing well without a "star". Anything Goes doesn't have a "star". Yes, Sutton Foster is a star in the Broadway community I don't think the average tourist really knows who she is.
And what's the worst that can happen? A whole new group of people gets introduced to a great show.
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Updated On: 9/7/11 at 06:19 PM
#31Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:39pmnot really pleased with the casting, but glad it'll keep the show open. that stage door will be INSANE. glad i saw the show back in June without a ton of Radcliff fangirls in the audience.
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#32Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:45pmWho wants to see Paris Hilton in the Apple Tree? I don't know.. A lot of people!
#33Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:56pmThis is just a dry run for his star turn on the Great White Way as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2013.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#34Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 7:08pm
PattiLover's use of "anymore" there is entirely correct.
His description of Finch as "Chaplin-esque," however, is a little baffling.
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#35Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 7:17pm
I don't think Nick has the charm or the wit to pull off this part but I hope he proves me wrong.
Updated On: 9/7/11 at 07:17 PM
#36Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 7:19pm
A "I don't like Broadway anymore", "I hate Broadway these days" or "I hate Broadway now" would be more correct. "I hate Broadway anymore" simply sounds oafish and wrong. The meaning is understood but the usage is not desirable.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Updated On: 9/7/11 at 07:19 PM
#37Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 7:34pm
You may not prefer it, but it is correct. That's all's I'm saying.
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#38Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:05pm
Yeah, but no.
It means "any longer" or "to any further extent."
You couldn't say, "I hate Broadway any longer!" or "I hate Broadway to any further extent!"
Doesn't work.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#39Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:13pm
Ooh, let's have a semantic debate! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Merriam-Webster's Unabridged *primary* definition:
Main Entry: anymore
Function: adverb
Etymology: any + more
: at the present time : NOWADAYS, CURRENTLY, NOW
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#40Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:22pmLet's just hope this coincides with filming of the movie version of Les Miserables so we can all be spared the laughing fit that accompanies Jonas singing Empty Chairs @ Empty Tables.
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#41Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:29pm
I don't know which Merriam Webster you're looking at, but here's the one online.
Will the real Merriam Webster please stand up.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#42Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:32pm
I'm using the Unabridged...
https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com
...which I believe requires a subscription.
So, if you have not a subscription, you can either believe or not believe that I copied and pasted it directly from the webpage... but I did because I am not a liar 
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#43Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:36pm
Well, the Merriam Webster link I provided has both definitions listed, with "any longer" as the first one.
Your "unabridged" apparently just has the second one? That would make it the abridged, "unabridged" version. I'd ask for my money back if I were you.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#44Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:40pm
It's not even MY money! I can't ask for that back! "Excuse me -- may I please have not my money back?" Talk about bad grammar.
At any rate, it's my primary, your secondary, you say "tomato," I say "anymore."
It's still correct. It's not something for which one must demand the grammar police, not even close.
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#45Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:44pmIt's funny, as you say that, two police cars just went by my window.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#46Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:47pm
" That's all's I'm saying."
What??? oh boy.
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#47Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 8:51pmBook him, Danno. Murder One.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#48Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/7/11 at 9:53pm
I just saw this news and I was hoping it was a big old hoax. But it's not April 1. And all the news outlets seem to be saying the same thing.
Epic casting fail.
#49Nick Jonas to replace Darren Criss in How to Succeed
Posted: 9/8/11 at 12:29amI wonder if Nick Jonas owns a copy of Strunk and White...? If not a charming Finch, he could own all y'all in semantics.
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