Will Chase to Play "Tony" in "Billy Elliot" Starting July 7- Page 2
Will Chase to Play "Tony" in "Billy Elliot" Starting July 7
#25re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 4:27pmI actually think the scenes between Chase and Jbara will be very passionate.
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#26re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 4:45pmThe current father in London was the original Tony.
janice4
Chorus Member Joined: 3/11/09
#27re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 5:06pmHuge fan of Will. I think he'll be absolutely terrific in the role
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#28re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 5:08pmI thought he was fantastic in "The Story of My Life." Great actor, great voice. I just don't think he's had a chance to showcase it because of his looks/voice type.
Morgaine885
Featured Actor Joined: 4/4/06
#29re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 5:16pmI think Santino was wasted in that role...he has the most BEAUTIFUL voice and I hated not being able to hear it.
#30re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 5:26pm
Great news!!! 
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bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#31re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 5:59pmI saw Billy a few weeks ago, and there was an understudy on for Tony. Not only did he look older than Chase, but he was also balding. Beyond the intial confusion of what was going on with that, he was fairly believable in the role. From the audience, Chase will look fine.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#32re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 6:04pmTony is an awfully thankless role. But who would pass up a role in a hit?
#33re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 7:03pmYAY!! I think he'll be wonderful.
#34re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 7:22pmWhy do they keep putting people with amazing voices into a pretty much non singing role? Does anyone else think they are wasting these people?
#35re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 7:30pm
AnaAllThatJazz, wasn't Jennifer Damiano only 15 when she was in Spring Awakening? Just saying...
And although I love Will, but as Billy's brother? Yeah, can't see it working too well.
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#36re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 8:09pmWhat are all of you literalists doing following the theatre?
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#37re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 9:11pmAge doesn't matter? Tell that to the posters who almost commited mass lemming suicide after Catherine Zeta-Jones was tapped to play Mama Rose in the Gypsy film.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#38re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 9:25pm
"Catherine Zeta-Jones was tapped to play Mama Rose in the Gypsy film."
Well Arthur banned her from the role immediately, lol.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#39re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 9:28pmYes, well a post-menopausal Rose with a four year old daughter is much more believable.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#40re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 10:22pmI am so happy for Will!
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#41re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 10:25pm
Yes, well a post-menopausal Rose with a four year old daughter is much more believable.
Ha ha ha! Best comment of the day :P
Isn't Haydn Gwynne leaving anytime as well?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#42re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 10:30pm^ September
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#43re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 10:39pm
Good for him.. too bad he's in the most underdeveloped and least entertaining role in the show.
Hopefully, he can make more of the role than Santino did.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#44re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 11:11pmWho is taking over Gwynne?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#45re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 11:17pmI believe Kate Hennig.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#46re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 11:32pmRight! She's the most amazing actress.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#47re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/24/09 at 11:40pmI am over from London and saw Billy this afternoon, the current Tony is hideous, does not remind me of a miner, very clean cut. Change would be welcome.
#48re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/25/09 at 1:49amWhat a thankless part but the boy must be tired of starring in flops.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
#49re: Will Chase to Play 'Tony' in 'Billy Elliot' Starting July 7
Posted: 6/25/09 at 1:53amGood for him. I'm glad Will is coming back to Broadway in a successful show.
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