Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine to lead WANTED at the James Earl Jones this fall — Page 2

Honestly, I'm just excited to see Solea Pfeiffer back on Broadway

Same. I will see Solea in ANYTHING. 

Also, a fan presale will begin on June 16 at 10 AM, with general onsale set for June 23. 

Updated On: 5/13/26 at 12:02 PM

EDSOSLO858 said: "Ledisi has joined the Broadway company as Tallulah Clarke.

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This was supposed to be Jeanette Bayardelle’s Tony role. 

Or, y’know, you could just wait until the show starts papering most of the house in October and take advantage of it. :)

The overall sentiment coming out of last year’s Tier 3 workshop for this was that this show has some enjoyable elements (especially the STRONG vocals), but it seemed to have lost its core identity through recent rewrites. There was real promise out of town so I hear, so that’s disheartening.

It’s your choice, but if I end up seeing this, it’ll most likely be for free. Feels like there’ll be zero buzz for this one. Zippo. 

Updated On: 6/17/26 at 12:51 AM

Luke James will play Elijah in the Broadway production. 

The theater choice is a bit worrying to me. The James Earl Jones is SMALL for a musical and requires a show sell out their orchestra at full price most of the time for any hope of financial success (just ask Bright Star). I guess the idea is keeping a tight ticket, but this isn't a 2-person show like Guttenberg! was in the same house (with star power), it has a decently sized cast and orchestra. Only way it succeeds is on the Maybe Happy Ending trajectory and I can guarantee it costs a couple hundred thousand $$ more to run than MHE.