Dogfight casting?
Dogfight casting?
sidneyfalco
Swing Joined: 5/16/10
#1Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/18/12 at 8:24pm
Has anyone heard anything about casting for Second Stage's upcoming production of Dogfight? I know they've started rehearsals but I can't seem to find anything that indicates who's in the show.
Thanks for any help!
#2Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/18/12 at 8:25pmI actually asked at 2nd Stage the other night and was told it would "be announced" soon.
sidneyfalco
Swing Joined: 5/16/10
#2Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/18/12 at 8:45pmAre they purposefully trying to keep it secret until some announcement?
dexter3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/13/08
#3Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/19/12 at 12:43amThat's weird. never heard of show announcing casting after rehearsals have started...wonder if someone dropped out at the last minute...
sidneyfalco
Swing Joined: 5/16/10
#4Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:36amI've convinced myself that a certain actress is going to be in this show, and she just posted on her Twitter that she can announce what her next project is tomorrow, so hopefully we'll have an announcement then!
sidneyfalco
Swing Joined: 5/16/10
#6Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:50amLet's just say she's leaving her Broadway show today and her name sort of rhymes with Whimsy Penheads. And if I'm right, I'm gonna freak out because she's absolutely perfect for the part in Dogfight.
#8Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 1:21pm
"Lindsay Mendez ?@LindsayMendez
Thanks all! I am so grateful for all your sweet messages and wishes! And I can announce what I'm moving onto tomorrow!!"
https://twitter.com/#!/LindsayMendez
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
#9Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 1:26pmWell then that would be fantastic. She's perfect for the role and it couldn't happen to a more talented person.
#10Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 1:33pmMendez actually resembles Dogfight-era Lili Taylor quite a bit.
"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
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#12Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 3:22pm
She should seriously consider changing her name to Whimsey Penheads, good career move.
I'm looking very forward to seeing this production.
#13Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 4:25pm
"She's perfect for the role"
So she's ugly enough to be a believable dogfight contestant? 
Is Max Crumm in it? He tweeted the other day that he was going to sing for Joe Mantello, but that seemed like an odd way of phrasing that he was starting rehearsals.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
dexter3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/13/08
#15Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 8:01pmI still don't understand why they didn't announce the casting BEFORE they got into rehearsal? It makes me think that either someone dropped out at the last minute, OR there was some weird Davenport-ian clause in Lindsay's contract that she couldn't promote other productions while under contract...blah blah blah. It's just a weird situation.
#16Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 8:28pmThey just began rehearsals on Friday, and they're announcing tomorrow. It's not like they've waited a terribly long time.
"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
#17Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/20/12 at 9:24pm
Nothing near an official press release, but she's credited as such in this photo on Tony Sheldon's blog (emphasis is mine)...
Julie Foldesi of NEWSIES with Lindsay K. Northen, the angel-voiced Jose Llana, and two of the stars of the new musical DOGFIGHT, Lindsay Mendez and F. Michael Haynie.
Ever After Revisited
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#18Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:25pm
Did anyone else picture Sarah Stiles in the Lilli Taylor role?
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#19Dogfight casting?
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:41pm
Eh. Boring cast.
Is Stephen Booth really trying to play straight?
