Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
#1Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 11:55am
Besides Roger Rees, Rachel Potter who previously understudied Glinda on a tour of Wicked will be replacing Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday. She announced it on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Here's a video of her singing Defying Gravity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgUurEJ2oYY (posted with the new rules for broadwayworld in consideration)
#2Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 12:08pmAnyone know who the new Grandma is?
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#2Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 12:19pmAre all of these replacements beginning in early March, or do some begin sooner than that?
CarmenDeBris
Stand-by Joined: 10/28/06
#3Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 12:32pmYeah did she mention when she's joining the cast?
#4Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 12:36pmI believe she said March 8th, with everyone else. Except Roger Rees joins three weeks later with Jim Borstlemann and Merwin Foard alternating until then. When she first announced it, she only said, "I'm taking over the role of Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family on Broadway!! "
#5Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 12:37pmA lot of the original cast (Carolee,Jackie,Krysta, Kevin, Terrence,Wesley and Nathan) are leaving March 6th
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#6Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 12:46pmBecca Ayers has joined the cast. She's an ancestor as well and also understudies Morticia, Alice Beineke & Grandma
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Updated On: 1/26/11 at 12:46 PM
#7Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 1:10pm
Tommy Berklund also replaced Barrett Martin as an Ancestor and Lurch u/s.
Mo Brady replaced Clark Johnsen as an Ancestor and Lucas u/s.
Lisa Karlin replaced Alena Watters.
Cortney Wolfson replaced Morgan James, but she's only u/s for Wednesday since Becca Ayers is covering Alice. I think Cortney's already gone on, but can anyone confirm?
#8Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 5:08pmOMG YES! Rachel Potter is fantastic! So excited for her!
I know, right?
rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
#9Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 5:57pmI've never had the chance to see this show yet. Should I try to get there before Krysta leaves? She's actually the main reason why I want to go.
catalana2
Swing Joined: 12/30/09
#10Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 6:02pmAny idea what Krysta is going to be up to after this?
Orangesaretuesdays
Stand-by Joined: 10/8/10
#11Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 6:04pmWell if she is the main reason you want to see it then I think you answered your own question. I saw it and it was horrible it was just... not good. Bu t she was great, the whole cast did the best they could do with the material they were given.
#12Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 6:09pm
Glad they're all moving on from this crap. A job's a job but they've done their time.
Hoffman'd be a hoot as a nun in Sister Act.
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#13Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 6:52pmJessica Lea Patty is also leaving the show.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#14Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/26/11 at 10:03pmI believe jamiekennywicked is incorrect. Hoffman isn't leaving until sometime in the summer.
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#15Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 12:10am
Damn. They're all getting out ASAP. lol I can't wait to see who will replace Kevin. He's so perfect in that role.
Has anyone seen Merwin as Gomez?? How is he?
lightit21
Swing Joined: 12/27/10
#18Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 5:16pmI heard that Shields is replacing Carolee.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#19Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 5:20pmNo, it's Brooke for Bebe. Mark my words.
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#20Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 5:26pmBebe is with the show till summer, correct?
"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
#21Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 5:38pmI believe Bebe signed a 6 month extension until August. someone correct me if I'm wrong.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#22Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 5:45pmIs Brooke no longer involved with LEAP OF FAITH? Or are they not planning on transferring in the fall anymore?
musicalperson17
Understudy Joined: 9/2/10
#23Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 6:20pmbebe is continuing with the show after nathan leaves. i don't know for how long
#24Other Addams Family Cast Replacements
Posted: 1/27/11 at 7:23pm
I saw Merwin Ford on for Nathan Lane- the show was so tailored to Lane that someone who is nothing like him, like Merwin Ford is totally lost in the part. What made it worse was that the entire cast attempted to compensate for Lane's absense making an already shaky show seem so flat and lifeless that I actually pitched a fit at intermission and got my money back. This was the week before Lane was supposed to be on vacation and was
"sick" again. When the House manager had the nerve to tell me that Mr. Lane never misses a performance I had a slight outburst and pointed to one of the people with me that evening and informed him that it took him 3 times to finally see him in The Producers.
I have seen other understudies in large roles who were wonderful, but this show and that part was totally created with Nathan Lane and only Nathan Lane in mind.
I would not be one bit surprised if some direction is changed to allow Mr. Ree's to make the part his own, an opportunity that an understudy or stand-by in poor Merwins case, is never afforded.
I did however see him on for Terrance Mann and I must say that I actually like him as Mel better.
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