So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
#1So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 1:59pmNow that's it's been announced Jessie Mueller is going to be Helena in the Drood revival, it creates a conundrum if Into the Woods comes to Bway. So will she go with Drood, thus opening the role of Cinderella for Broadway?
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dreaming
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#2So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 2:01pmIt depends if Into the Woods transfers and when (Drood is a limited run right now-let's see how it does).
#2So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 2:02pm
It's far, far too early to say.
But Mueller wouldn't be the only cast member with scheduling conflicts should it indeed transfer.
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#3So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 2:43pm
I was actually just about to ask this. I wonder if they will need a new actress for the part if they transfer it to Broadway. I think Sierra Boggess would be great, but it depends on if she sticks with 'Ever After' and when it will open.
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#4So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 2:49pmAlexandra Silber would make a great Cinderella.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#5So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 2:54pm
Please don't call the musical "Drood", the official title is "The Mystery of Edwin Drood".
I also hate it when people call shows "Phantom", "Streetcar", "Poppins", "Priscilla", etc.
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#6So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:06pmYou heard it from bobs. No abbreviating! Full titles only!
#7So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:09pm
The original production of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD officially changed its name to DROOD during its run on Broadway. Is it really so offensive to use the shortened moniker here?
As per Mueller--a transfer of INTO THE WOODS is entirely hypothetical at this point. I don't understand why people are acting like it's a foregone conclusion. Far from it, I'd imagine.
"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
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#8So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:10pm
Yes, it is offensive. Rupert Holmes loathed the fact that they changed title but the decision was made by the NYSFs advertising firm and approved by Mr. Papp.
Updated On: 6/28/12 at 03:10 PM
#9So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:12pm^ K
"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
#10So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:28pmSo if she does DROOD she won't be in WOODS. Would she even consider being or make a good POPPINS? She can't do STREETCAR because she's white or PRISCILLA, cause that just close...maybe she could even do 'VITA or 1ce.
#11So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:34pmThe abbrev. for INTO THE WOODS is ITW, not WOODS. Get with it!
"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
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#12So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:43pm
I prefer Drood over TMOED.
Maybe it is an age things but more then half the time I have no clue what show someone is talking about when abbreviated.
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#13So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:43pm^WOODS is disrespectful to Stephen Sondheim! He titled it INTO THE WOODS!
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#14So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 3:47pmHe is totally going to write a nasty letter to y'all if you keep calling it WOODS.
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#15So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 4:04pmSierra Boggess would make a great Cinderella, but perhaps not in this production. She has the look for the classic Cinderella, not the 1980s punk with a nose piercing Cinderella. I am sure she could do it, she just isn't the first one I would associate with the role this time around.
#16So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 4:49pmHow do you all sleep at night?
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#17So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 4:50pmI think Sierra would be great, but she still has "Ever After" and "Prince of Broadway." Too bad Laura Osnes is already playing Cinderella in a different production! What about Ashley Brown?
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#18So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 5:30pmI cant speak for everyone but I personally sleep with my original cast album of WOODS on instant repeat.
#19So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 9:47pm
Please, people!
It's "The Gershwin's Into the Woods."
Get it right.
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#20So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 10:43pm
The role of Helena in DROOD is miniscule (I'm actually rather shocked Mueller is even doing it after her success with ON A CLEAR DAY...) Yes, you can do a lot with it, but if INTO THE WOODS moves and the two end up conflicting, there's no way she'd choose Helena over Cinderella. You can't even compare the parts.
I'm sure Roundabout is already prepared for the prospect of losing her, since I know for a fact other INTO THE WOODS cast members have been turning down work for the fall that would impede their availability for a transfer.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#21So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:05pm
bobs3- It's not NYSF- it's the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Abbreviations are SO offensive.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#22So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:33pmHa ha. Awaiting Bobs3's response.
Dollypop
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#23So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/29/12 at 12:14am
Bob has fallen asleep. He isn't "dreaming". He's "Drooding"
Where was Bob when FIDDLER, FORUM, OH DAD POOR DAD, HOW TO SUCCEED, LA MANCHA, DOLLY and SUPERMAN were running?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#24So Will Into the Woods Need a New Cinderella?
Posted: 6/29/12 at 2:27am
probably in my Mother's womb...I think you are MUCH older than me. How are those AARP discounts working out for you?
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