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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#1
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:44am

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/189211/mandy-patinkin-will-return-to-broadway-in-natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812/

From Aug 15 to Sept 3.

Wonder why Oak's run is so short

Updated On: 7/26/17 at 10:44 AM

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#2
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:47am

Uh... this is.... certainly a choice.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#3
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:49am

WOW. Did not see this coming! Should be interesting though....

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#4
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:50am

w o w

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#5
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:51am

(insert required Princess Bride joke here)

OK. Guess I'm seeing this again

I do wonder why Oak is leaving so soon--he isn't Dave (or Josh), but Pierre isn't the most important part in the show and he does fine in it.

Updated On: 7/26/17 at 10:51 AM

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#6
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:51am

Maybe he was interested in the role & possibly the producers aren't exactly pleased with Oak in the role?

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#7
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:52am

Also strange that Oak is ending his run late when he didn't start it as schedule either.

This is STRANGE.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#8
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:53am

MANDY PATINKIN first of all is a TALENT and a LEGEND... I WILL BE GOING!!

But let's be honest... This OAK stuff is soooo shady... first he delayed, now he cuts it short??? WHAT HAPPENED???

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#9
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:53am

It's pretty simple. Oak started late because he wasn't ready, and is ending early because the producers found a bigger name to replace him.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#10
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:55am

People on this board are way too eager to read into things.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#11
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:55am

Um...so they're firing Oak. That's what happening, yes? They booked a bigger star and are firing him. I don't know there's another interpretation.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#12
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:56am

Don't know if that was aimed at me, but mine was a statement of fact, not supposition.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#13
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:56am

I wonder who will take over for Mandy + why his run is so short.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#14
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:57am

Does Patankin play the Piano, let alone the accordian? I can't imagine him learning on such short notice.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#15
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:57am

This is really bizarre. Both the casting and the behind-the-scenes stuff we don't know. Even if the producers are unhappy with Oak's performance, surely there's a better way to handle it than cutting his run short to only a month and change and replacing him with someone completely too old and deranged for the part. Yes, Patinkin is a legend, but that legend is based almost entirely on his younger days. And let's face it, he's not the same actor he used to be.

All of this is bizarre.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#16
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:57am

ChairinMain said: "Um...so they're firing Oak. That's what happening, yes? They booked a bigger star and are firing him. I don't know there's another interpretation."

Think of it as a paid vacation, but yeah. Also not the first time it's happened with this production.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#17
Posted: 7/26/17 at 10:59am

Oak drama notwithstanding, it's quite shrewd of Comet to have these celebrities come in for short amounts of time. Obviously people want to see the roles interpreted differently, and I hope this helps them make their run even longer.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#18
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:00am

With Criminal Minds and Homeland in recent memory, Patinkin is a bigger star to the mainstream than he was in his Broadway heyday.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#19
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:01am

Yeah it wasn't Oak's choice to leave early. He, and Brittain when Ingrid came in, were both notified well after their star replacements had started rehearsing.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#20
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:03am

This is much too bad (for Oak that is).

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#21
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:06am

So if I'm not mistaken, Ingrid is performing through the 15th of August?

If so, there's one show where both are in, right?

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#22
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:07am

That's rough for Oak. I wonder if it's something bigger going on. He did fine in the role when I saw him, (July 14th, so one of his first shows) and the audience was eating it up (Almost the whole theatre full, extended applause after Dust and Ashes) but I will also note that both Rachel Chavkin and Dave Malloy seem to be in the theatre a lot lately.

I don't know, it just feels like something is up

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#23
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:08am

This is fantastic, but I'm shocked to see it's such a short run. Why isn't GREAT COMET trying to get longer runs out of their stars? Still, inspired casting.

Also, for the next cast replacements, my dreams include Norbert Leo Butz as Pierre and Nicole Scherzinger as Helene.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#24
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:08am

This is all just so flippin' weird...

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#25
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:08am

I mean Mandy is only in the show for three weeks. Oak couldn't take a three-week holiday and come back in September? Or do they have someone lined up? Or were they just not feeling Oak after all.

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Mandy Patinkin to join THE GREAT COMET as Pierre for 3 week run!#26
Posted: 7/26/17 at 11:09am

OAK must have been let go because why wouldn't MANDY just join after his run? The fact that his run was cut three weeks early, and MANDY is only joining for three weeks, is telling...

Man.. THE DRAMA!

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