METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Skimbleshanks2
Broadway Star Joined: 2/11/15
#1METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 6:14am
JULIE WHITE will take over the lead beg. July 25...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Laurie-Metcalf-Chris-Cooper-and-Condola-Rashad-to-Exit-A-DOLLS-HOUSE-PART-2-20170705
Glad TONY voters didn't fall for SCOTT RUDIN's extension ploy...
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#2METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 6:28am
why does that make you glad
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@z5
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/30/15
#3METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 7:37am
Unfortunately, I don't know if I see this making it to January.
#4METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 8:07am
I highly doubt it last until January.
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Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 8:09am
What was the "ploy"?
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
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#6METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 8:21am
What do you mean "extension ploy"? The production is still extending, just without the entire original cast.
White will be fantastic, but I was more excited at the announcement of Stephen McKinley Henderson.
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#7METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 8:34am
The ploy was that Rudin announced that the show was extending until January right before the end of Tony voting. Announcing an extension and actually getting there are two totally different things. I expect there will be a drop in box office once Metcalf et al leave, and by September (maybe October), a closing notice will be posted.
"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
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 8:40am
Based on the reviews why not risk it and announce an extension? I see nothing wrong with doing that. He's a producer after all.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#9METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 8:44am
He can do whatever he wants. But he definitely had an agenda in mind. And many of us highly doubt that the extension will actually play itself out until January. That's all.
"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
Updated On: 7/5/17 at 08:44 AM
#11METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 9:19am
I love Julie White, and I'm going in with an open mind, but on paper she doesn't scream "ideal Nora" to me.
"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
#12METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 9:21am
Julie runs the risk of going "too big" on this one. I adore her, but Metcalf was the perfect combo of levity and comedy. We'll see.
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Skimbleshanks2
Broadway Star Joined: 2/11/15
#13METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 9:26am
AC126748 said: "The ploy was that Rudin announced that the show was extending until January right before the end of Tony voting. Announcing an extension and actually getting there are two totally different things. I expect there will be a drop in box office once Metcalf et al leave, and by September (maybe October), a closing notice will be posted.
"
Yes - it was a total ploy to win BEST PLAY. Glad OSLO triumphed!
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Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#14METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 9:29am
Still see nothing wrong with it. He is a Producer trying to do whatever is best for his show.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#15METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 9:36am
When he announced the show was extending, I remember him stating that replacements would occur after the cast's initial contracts. He is still extending the production, just not with the original cast. If it makes it to January depends on how it does in the Fall. Stop over analyzing all of Rudin's actions and just go with it at this point guys.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#16METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 10:15am
Bettyboy72 said: "Julie runs the risk of going "too big" on this one. I adore her, but Metcalf was the perfect combo of levity and comedy. We'll see.
I certainly agree that Metcalf is perfection (in anything and certainly in ADH2). And though I greatly admire White I also agree she runs the risk of going "too big" (an unpopular dissenting opinion of mine is that she went way too big in Little Dog Laughed - maybe it was just the performance I saw but...).
But White gave a gorgeous performance replacing Sigourney Weaver in Vanya and Sonya... and I think she will likely do very well as Nora in ADHD... er, ADH2.
Frankly, I think she's a wonderful idea to replace Metcalf. And I hope a great many people who have yet to see this very fine play will see it between now and January.
"
#17METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 10:24am
I respect your opinion, Henrik, but White's Masha really didn't work for me. If it's possible, she was both too big and too small in that role. There was a stridency to her performance that Weaver didn't bring to the role--a level of broad comedy that didn't really gel with the character. But at the same time, she didn't bring the same star quality that I got from Weaver. Weaver's Masha was a movie star (not surprising); White's Masha came across as an actress playing a movie star.
"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
#18METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 10:39am
I'm a little confused by how this play continues to be cast - if Nora is around 30 in the first part, fifteen years later she would be 45. And Torvald would probably be a couple years older than Nora, but not what appears to be at least a decade older. Someone like say, Mary Louise Parker would make a lot more sense, opposite a man of a similar age.
#19METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 11:27am
I'm very excited to see White in the role. But without a "name" or a Tony award winning performance to help sell tickets I can't see this lasting long at all. Its nothing against anyone in the new cast, it's just science.
#20METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 11:35am
Am I the only one shocked that they're all leaving so abruptly? It came across as very odd to me, like something was up. Granted, I'm probably off-base with that.
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nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#21METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 11:39am
All three are in demand actors with other projects lined up and couldn't extend. Metcalf alone has to film Roseanne in the fall and the Three Tall Women revival next spring.
#22METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 11:42am
And Rashad is also on a TV show (Billions) that starts filming soon. Cooper's IMDB page lists two films in pre-production.
"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
TerrenceIsTheMann
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/15
#23METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 11:57am
This simply won't sell with the new names attached, and I love Stephen McKinley Henderson.
#24METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 12:07pm
Skimbleshanks2 said: "Yes - it was a total ploy to win BEST PLAY. Glad OSLO triumphed!"
Doll's House was supposed to end on July 23, and Oslo is still ending on July 16. Not sure what the thinking is here as far as ploys. Let's just give the Tony to whichever play stays open longer?!
#25METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 12:34pm
Skimbleshanks2, shouldn't you be fretting over how long Groundhog's Day is going to run?
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nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#26METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
Posted: 7/5/17 at 12:36pm
haterobics said: "Skimbleshanks2 said: "Yes - it was a total ploy to win BEST PLAY. Glad OSLO triumphed!"
Doll's House was supposed to end on July 23, and Oslo is still ending on July 16. Not sure what the thinking is here as far as ploys. Let's just give the Tony to whichever play stays open longer?!"
Voters (allegedly) do take things like if it's still running into consideration. They know it will help a show sell tickets.Obviously there are examples of closed shows winning, but people think it makes a difference and it usually seems to.
