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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#5
Posted: 7/5/17 at 8:09am

What was the "ploy"?

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#6
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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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#7
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#8
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#9
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#10
Posted: 7/5/17 at 9:14am

Why are we talking about Rudin's supposed "ploys" and not the fact that we get National Treasure(TM) Julie White as Nora and how I can't really breathe from excitement.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#11
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#12
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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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#13
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.

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Yes - it was a total ploy to win BEST PLAY. Glad OSLO triumphed!

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#14
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#15
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#16
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.

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Updated On: 7/5/17 at 10:15 AM

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#17
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#18
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#19
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#20
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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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#21
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#22
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.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#23
Posted: 7/5/17 at 11:57am

This simply won't sell with the new names attached, and I love Stephen McKinley Henderson.

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METCALF, COOPER, RASHAD leaving A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2#24
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?!