You mean you saw a fantastic Broadway show with performers who have been training their whole lives to get on that stage and are incredibly talented plus you didn't get a refund at the end?

My heart bleeds for you.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#55
Posted: 6/19/16 at 12:17am

LMAO LMAO LMAO

Poor OP. He didn't even take a picture of the board to share with us.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#56
Posted: 6/19/16 at 12:22am

She Loves Me is a two woman show about unrequited lesbian love and the whole cast was out tonight. Duh.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#57
Posted: 6/19/16 at 12:26am

Haha. Yeah, now that the truth is coming out that the male leads did in fact perform this evening there is no way that there were two understudy boards as previously reported. One had to have been the cast list.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#58
Posted: 6/19/16 at 12:31am

Plannietink08 said: "You mean you saw a fantastic Broadway show with performers who have been training their whole lives to get on that stage and are incredibly talented plus you didn't get a refund at the end?

My heart bleeds for you.

He didn't even go into the theatre to see the show!

"

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#59
Posted: 6/19/16 at 12:32am

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#60
Posted: 6/19/16 at 12:34am

Next time wear a foil hat to the theater. That way they can't read your mind, find out who you're excited about seeing, and make sure they're out. It's the only way to avoid the conspiracy.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#61
Posted: 6/19/16 at 12:42am

I actually want to see a show where the ENTIRE cast is out. That would be fun.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#62
Posted: 6/19/16 at 1:21am

I was at the show tonight. There were exactly four slots on the understudy board:

1.The role of Amalia Balash will be played by Laura Shoop.

2.The role of Ilona Ritter will be played by Alison Cimmet

3.The roles usually played by Laura Shoop will be played by x.

4.The roles usually played by Alison Cimmet will be played by y.

(I can't remember the specific swings' names, although I wondered if perhaps there was an extra male in the ensemble tonight - it seemed unbalanced between men and women.)

Having already seen the show with the full cast, I thought it might be interesting to see the understudies. I wish I could say they were just as good, if not better... But if faced with this situation again, I think I'd try to reschedule for another date.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#63
Posted: 6/19/16 at 1:53am

So there we have it. Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski, Laura Shoop, and Allison Cimmet are the entire cast. Everyone else on stage is just there because they feel like being up there. If I knew that, I would have joined them when I saw it.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#64
Posted: 6/19/16 at 2:39am

Thank god Tom McGowan was on.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#65
Posted: 6/19/16 at 3:46am

This thread has been a wild ride.

I'm still back on the ol' bait-n-switch methodology of live theatre, for shows to pay stars thousands of dollars, then have them not show up so people [who stop and think] demand refunds, resulting in massive financial losses while they laugh at our consternation.

Updated On: 6/19/16 at 03:46 AM

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#66
Posted: 6/19/16 at 4:45am

Wow, I'd hate to see what happens when important things happen in this person's life! When the milk dispenser at Starbucks is empty, do you throw your just purchased coffee away, too?

Look, buddy, we all understand being disappointed when someone you were looking forward to seeing is out. I'm sorry, that Jane's illness (or whatever prevented her appearance) wasn't cleared with you first.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

Updated On: 6/19/16 at 04:45 AM

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#67
Posted: 6/19/16 at 4:58am

I don't find the OP to be overly dramatic as others have suggested, and some of the responses here probably increased that person's subsequent defensiveness. And yes, the subject line did the OP no favors since the entire cast most definitely was not out, but still.

If you don't got to theatre very often, you don't necessarily understand the process about understudies and swings, nor do you know that the week after the Tony Award's is often hit or miss for leads. You don't necessarily know to look at Telecharge or other appropriate sites to see if a vacation or other absence notice has been posted since you bought your tickets months ago. You just assume you'll get the show as advertised. Nor do you necessarily know to go to the box office and try for a refund because someone over the title is out.

And if you don't live in NYC or nearby, it is easy to forget that those of us who travel in periodically for shows do often plan months in advance. We also have hundreds if not thousands of dollars involved with flights, hotels, and the like. Maybe the trip and/or the tickets are a gift or a special night out for someone who is a deep fan of one of the performers more than a theatre lover overall.

So joining the board today (which often seems to engender automatic suspicion) and posting a comment that to Broadway or board regulars seems a bit melodramatic and out of touch with how things happen might actually be just what the OP says it is: a frustrated and disappointed patron who was trying to get a sense of what just happened from people who might know.

Before any of us became Insiders, we also were on the outside looking in, not totally clear on how things work. And even insiders can be unsure of things when they find themselves on the outside of a new experience as evidenced in the She Loves Me broadcast thread and all the questions there.

Updated On: 6/19/16 at 04:58 AM

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#68
Posted: 6/19/16 at 5:48am

When did a musical become a play?

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#69
Posted: 6/19/16 at 7:19am

SweetLips said: "When did a musical become a play?

"

I was actually waiting for this to show up lol

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#70
Posted: 6/19/16 at 7:23am

^THIS. Also, the OP is the kinda guy who wouldn't watch a basketball game without LeBron, or not watch Hamilton had Lin been out of the show. Seems you just aren't actually a fan of the theater, just looking for some celebrity.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#71
Posted: 6/19/16 at 7:32am

Dancingthrulife2 said: "SweetLips said: "When did a musical become a play?"

I was actually waiting for this to show up lol"

Performers themselves actually call it a play even if it's a musical.

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Is it common to replace entire cast with no notice?#72
Posted: 6/19/16 at 9:01am

All musicals are plays....it's a subset.

Its definition...a dramatic performance, as on a stage .