Why was Sara Gettelfinger replaced by Erin Davie in Grey Gardens?

[Raspberry]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 12:46am

Just kidding.

I miss the days when there would be another new thread on this subject every week--at least it meant the show was still on Broadway. It closed a year ago today.

Updated On: 7/29/08 at 12:46 AM

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 12:50am

I'm so glad this is a joke...

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 12:51am

I wasn't around last year. Why was she replaced?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 12:53am

She was awful?

[Boq101]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 1:09am

Ouch!

Well, her songs sounded fine...a little wrong in her tone, I don't know why. I prefer Erin's voice. I can't comment more, didn't see either.

[pattilupuppy]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 2:25am

it did close a year ago today... and did you realize that another musical in the same theatre closed the same weekend a year later ACA

[B3TA07]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 2:41am

She also looked nothing like Christine Ebersole

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 2:51am

She was awful?

Did you see her performance?

She was far from awful. She was wonderful, in fact. She looked very much like the real Young Little Edie, but unfortunately did not look enough like Christine Ebersole, who did look like the Adult Little Edie. So for dramatic purposes, Gettelfinger was replaced with an actress that the audience could more believably associate with being the same person in Act I and Act II.

[My Sobriquet]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 2:55am

Wow. A year flies. I'm still missing GG.

Living in Chicago, I'm very excited about Northlight Theater tackling GG this fall, especially with Hollis Resnik's involvement. Still hoping for London in my dreams....

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 3:53am

I enjoy Gettelfinger in the cast recording simply because I like Gettelfinger. To me she failed to make any real connection with Act II Little Edie which regardless of whatever happened in the lives of the actual Edies, just makes the two acts feel a bit disjointed.
When I had the chance of seeing Erin Davie play the role, I felt that the emotional journey that Edie goes through during the whole show was far more believable and there was quite a character study in her performance that I just did not get from Gettelfinger's performance. Regardless, I thought it was quite a wise decision to replace her, and I believe it was more a matter of the direction the writers and Grief wanted to go in.

[Parks]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 4:12am

What is this news of GG in Chicago??

And Hollis? Wasn't she in the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels tour?

[Raspberry]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 7:05am

I'm glad to see this thread turned out like all the others, even though I was joking. Like I said, I was feeling nostalgic...

[pattilupuppy]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 9:26am

girls girls girls lets behave ourselves

[Midnight Radio]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 9:58am

Gettelfinger performed the sh*t out of that role. Davie was the disappointment.

[jennyish]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:05am

Let's focus on the real tragedy--the closing of one of the best shows Broadway has seen in decades.

[sally1112]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:32am

Sorry, I can't let it go- Sara Gettelfinger was absolutely great. She is leggy and beautiful. She can sing, dance, and act. I saw Erin too,and I am not taking anything away from her, but I can not read people trashing Sara without posting my thoughts.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:34am

I thought they were both kind of terrible.

[sally1112]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:41am

Well then, I guess it is settled. Thanks. ^^

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 10:50am

I thought Sara was very good and was definitely looked more like a young Little Edie. I think it was brilliant to put Sara in the bathing suit and sarong in the first act. Sara really embodied young Little Edie. I think the disparity between her and Ebersole in Act 2 was noticeable.Sara is much more regal looking and had that stunning face and gorgeous gams that Little Edie had when she was a model and deb.

[SweetSoprano]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 12:21pm

I saw Sara and thought she was brilliant. She looked much more like the real Edie. While Davie was good, she did look much more like Ebersole. I still prefer Sara to her though.

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 12:36pm

This is just going by the recordings.

Sara, while very good, wasn't as right for the part as Erin.

While Sara took the approach of having Edie being somewhat normal before becoming Christine Ebersole, Erin Davie was just COMPLETELY unhinged: her voice was just right (which I suspect has something to do with how her jaw [even in real life] always seems to be clenched. She should do something about that), and, as a consequence, her performance of "Daddy's Girl" was heartbreaking.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 1:08pm

"which I suspect has something to do with how her jaw [even in real life] always seems to be clenched."

aww lol She's like America's version of Ruthie Henshall, only doesn't sing AS well.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 1:13pm

I heard that a major factor was that she looked too tall next to Matt Cavanaugh.

Yes, Hollis Resnick is doing GG at Northlight in Skokie, starting in November.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 1:30pm

Hot damn, I miss this show.

[fakemyway2thetop]

Posted: 2/28/09 at 6:15am

I find Sara G. somewhat awkward on stage. I never feel like she's comfortable. Have seen her in GG, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Nine (that I can think of) and she always seems as if she's trying too hard and it makes me uncomfortable. Also, she seems to have a strange speech pattern. (her S's sound like ESH's) Once I heard the S thing the first time, it's all I hear anytime she speaks on stage. Has anyone seen her play Feshtrada in Los Angeles?