Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Announced Replacements That Never Happened
#1Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 8:58am
I was thinking of people who were announced to take over but never did for one reason or another. I'm not talking "just rumored" but actually lined up.
I can think of.
1. Faye Dunaway (Sunset) 2. Judy Kuhn (The Woman In White) 3. Mya (Chicago) 4. Robert Stack (La Cage Aux Folles)
any more?
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#2Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 8:59am
Jenna Elfman in the Nine revival.
#3Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:03am
I think this thread pops up AT LEAST twice a year.
Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole in "After Midnight".
The show had a gap between Patti Labelle's end and Gladys Knight's start that encompassed the 4th of July weekend. Rather than throw on an understudy or go dark for the week, they just opted to close it then. Still don't understand why.
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#4Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:03am
James Valenti was supposed to start as Rodolfo in (Baz Luhrmann's) La Boheme, but it closed before that could happen.
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#5Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:04am
Rhiannon Giddens in Shuffle Along...
#6Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:20am
sorry to have offended the thread gods by posting something discussed before.
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#7Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:21am
sorry to have offended the thread gods by posting something discussed before.
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#8Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:27am
Judy Kuhn in The Woman in White
"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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#9Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:46am
Aretha Franklin in After midnight!
#10Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:46am
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Rhiannon Giddens in Shuffle Along...
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Still can't believe she never got to go on, or even rehearse for that matter. I hope she plays the role at some point.
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#11Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 9:58am
Call_me_jorge said: "Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Rhiannon Giddens in Shuffle Along...
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Still can't believe she never got to go on, or even rehearse for that matter. I hope she plays the role at some point.
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Giddens was well into rehearsals when the plug was pulled.
"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
#12Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 1:23pm
newintown said: "Jenna Elfman in the Nine revival."
That's right! I wonder what happened there...
#13Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 1:28pm
Diana Rigg and Anjelica Huston in LOVE LETTERS.
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#14Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 2:48pm
Jeffrey Tambor - La Cage
Rosie O'Donnell - Taboo
Cher - Sunset Boulevard (Toronto company - was not announced, but she was supposed to do it)
#15Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 2:50pm
Don't forget Savion Glover was also supposed to go into Shuffle Along as some unspecified, possibly specially added, dancing role.
#16Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 2:51pm
"Jeffrey Tambor - La Cage"
Jeffrey Tambor was in the La Cage revival for nine performances. I saw one of them. He was awful.
#17Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 2:54pm
"sorry to have offended the thread gods by posting something discussed before."
This was made even funnier by posting twice... 
#18Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 2:56pm
I can't find any evidence that Rosie O'Donnell was announced to be joining Taboo.
"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
#19Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 3:01pm
WithoutATrace said: "Diana Rigg and Anjelica Huston in LOVE LETTERS."
I wasn't around when this (would have) happened, but just the thought of it not being done makes me upset.
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#20Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 3:06pm
I can't find any evidence that Rosie O'Donnell was announced to be joining Taboo.
Hmm maybe it was just speculation at the time, but when Liz McCartney went on mat leave it was expected Rosie would take over (to help with ticket sales as well).
#21Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 3:09pm
Wait a sec, I don't think Diana and Anjelica were going to play OPPOSITE each other in the show?
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#22Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 3:19pm
Haha. They were NOT going to play opposite each other. They were going to be replacements for later in the run...but it closed prematurely. I forgot who their male counterparts were supposed to be.
#23Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 3:30pm
Diana Rigg was supposed to play opposite Stacy Keach, and Anjelica Huston was supposed to play opposite Martin Sheen.
"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
#24Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 3:52pm
Glenn Close and Kevin Spacey were announced to replace Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" but the producers decided they weren't big enough names to sell tickets and opted to close the show when the cast from the RSC departed.
One week after what would have been Glenn's first performance in "Les Liasions Dangereues," the movie "Fatal Attraction" opened. If the producers had stuck to their original plan, they would have had the breakout star of the biggest hit film in years as the star of their play.
Definitely one of the great desk smacking moments in Broadway producing history.
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#25Announced Replacements That Never Happened
Posted: 3/22/17 at 4:10pm
"Diana Rigg was supposed to play opposite Stacy Keach, and Anjelica Huston was supposed to play opposite Martin Sheen."
Thank you! Wish we had gotten to see both pairs.
