WONDERLAND Announces Broadway Cast; New Caterpillar

[Rob]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 5:49pm

Click Here to Read WONDERLAND Announces Broadway Cast; New Caterpillar

[loverly]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 6:08pm

So Tituss Burgess got fired?

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 8:01pm

See answer to the question, "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?"

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 8:28pm

"So Tituss Burgess got fired?"

Maybe he dropped out.

[philly03]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 8:52pm

Doesn't surprise me... The role of the Caterpillar is pretty small, I was surprised he originally was announced for it.

And a question is finally answered - it will actually be a child as the 10 year-old-ish role "Chloe" will be played by a child actress as opposed to what happened in the premiere when 20-something-year-old Julie Brooks played her!

[wicked1492]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 9:22pm

Tituss "removed himself" to work on something else, per facebook.

Updated On: 11/19/10 at 09:22 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 9:57pm

A new caterpillar will not help the show.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 10:12pm

Does anyone know why Nikki Snelson isn't playing the mad hatter?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 10:25pm

See answer to the question, "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?"

The Owl said 3

[Zingingtobway]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 11:23pm

Mr. Burgess has resigned from the project...

[Anakela]

Posted: 11/20/10 at 1:04am

So has the Jabberwock role been cut? Or is one of the ensemble the new Jabberwock, and just not credited in the press release?

[philly03]

Posted: 11/20/10 at 3:57am

"Does anyone know why Nikki Snelson isn't playing the mad hatter?"

Snelson was wonderful in the role, but reviews seemed mixed. I like what she did - made the Hatter more funny, but they have rewritten the majority of the role, which many assume will focus less on dancing. They want the Hatter to be more sinister than the comic bills that Snelson often mastered.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 11/20/10 at 5:50am

Snelson and Tituss probably jumped ship

[philly03]

Posted: 11/20/10 at 4:56pm

^^ Titus did

[jennafan]

Posted: 11/21/10 at 1:48am

The reviews of this show haven't been great.... I saw a video on youtube and it looked pretty bad. Hope it works on Broadway though. :0

Hmmm....

[philly03]

Posted: 11/21/10 at 5:05am

People need to stop judging it off "YouTube." There's clips from the Houston premiere on Youtube that are proshot, and anything else is ONE clip (truth be told, horrible direction) of a bootleg.

See the show or don't, but don't bash it without properly seeing it. IDC what you "saw," go see it next March/Spring/Summer/years if it's still open... Judge it from the live experience, not clips from the internet, or a concept album thats PURPOSELY done in the pop format.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/21/10 at 10:11am

Tituss "removed himself" to work on something else, per facebook.

Don't you mean ANYTHING else?

And Philly03, on which page will we find your real name in the program?

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 11/21/10 at 11:57am

However long the show lasts, I'm real happy to see E. Clayton Cornelius stepping up from the understudy world. I saw him go on several times in A Chorus Line, and I instantly felt there was star quality there.

[jennafan]

Posted: 11/21/10 at 10:33pm

Eh philly03 --- I don't care much for your theory of youtube not being a good souce. I have seen plenty of clips of shows on there that have actually brought me INTO the show and MADE me want to see it. No so much this one.

Wonderland -- while it might be good, who knows. I have listed to the cast recording and its OK but nothing great. I liked the song "One Knight" before I saw the clip, though it was short, the chorography that I saw of that song was just bad. lol

I am not hoping it fails at all, don't get me wrong. I just am curious to see how this does on Broadway.

[philly03]

Posted: 11/21/10 at 10:48pm

The "cast recording" is a concept album with the songs done in a pop format (for some of them), which don't always reflect how they sound in the show.

"One Knight" is supposed to be a spin off of one of those boy bands, thus the cheezy choreography. So seeing a pro-shot clip without audience reaction or plot points such as that would make someone not like it.

That's my point of YouTube CLIPS,... it's fine for the positive, but when you critique something when you're not there in the theatre experiencing it, you don't really have a valid argument.

[jennafan]

Posted: 11/22/10 at 12:20am

ok