Betsy Wolfe departs CAROUSEL

[jacobsnchz14]

Producers Scott Rudinand Roy Furmanannounced today Betsy Wolfe has departed the upcoming Broadway production of Carousel due to scheduling difficulties. Casting for the role of Carrie Pipperidge will be announced shortly.

Scott Rudinsaid, "We wish Betsy well and are enormously disappointed she won't be able to join the company at the Imperial."

Betsy Wolfe said, "I am so sad that I won't be able to join this beautiful production due to scheduling conflicts this fall, and wish the team all the best moving forward."

[ethan231h]

WHAT. NO. WHY. HOW. NO. 

i want answers. 

[Call_me_jorge]

I'm hyperventilating 

[Call_me_jorge]

Someone hold my handbag

[Call_me_jorge]

Why this fall, though?

[Whateverjsays]

WHAT?!?!?!? Need details NOW! She was the main reason why I bought tickets. What is she doing that could be more important than this? 

[Hairspray0901]

Any chance she's coming to Broadway with frozen, instead of Caissie? Hmm...

[Call_me_jorge]

Is scott Rudin having a big workshop for the show???

[ChildofEarth]

She's so beautiful and so talented, but this is the second show she's been announced for and then replaced. I'm wondering if Hollywood isn't calling OR she thinks she'll have better prospects there.

[GeorgeandDot]

Clutches pearls.  Faints.  Wakes up.  Faints again.  Cries.

[BroadwayConcierge]

NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[The Josh]

So disappointing!  She was the most exciting part of this production for me!!  Ah, well.

[BroadwayConcierge]

I only hope Cinders is doing okay.

[BroadwayRox3588]

I'm so sad 

[Call_me_jorge]

I've been saying she needs to be Elphaba in the wicked film....

i still don't get why it's scheduling conflicts for the fall. Carousel doesn't open until February. So is scott doing a big workshop for this? If so, wouldn't that mean Joshua Henry can't do that either?

[broadwayboy223]

WTF WHY WHATS GOING ON BETSY NOOOOO 

[BroadwayConcierge]

The phrasing of scheduling conflicts "this fall" is so strange. Carousel ostensibly won't start rehearsals until January.

[starcatchers]

Well, that's disappointing. 

[theater_tech]

BETSEEEEH! NOOOOOO!!

[@z5]

I'm kinda happy sher won't be in it. I don't like her voice. 

[Call_me_jorge]

I was hoping she would get her tony award from this. Now I'm full on sobbing. I love Betsy sooo much. Someone tell me it's going to be alright and she's still going to have a healthy career.

[Whateverjsays]

How could she have signed on for something this high profile knowing she'd have a scheduling conflict? And this fall? The show won't start for months! 

[jacobsnchz14]

Eliza Doolittle, I wish. 

[Whateverjsays]

Call_me_jorge said: "I was hoping she would get her tony award from this. Now I'm full on sobbing. I love Betsy sooo much. Someone tell me it's going to be alright and she's still going to have a healthy career."

I mean. She exited Frozen and now Carousel. Both extremely highly anticipated shows. How do you do that to your career?

[fashionguru_23]

She did recently take leave from Waitress for a night or two, and said on her Instagram that she has a big announcement that would be worth here being out for a few shows...maybe this has to do with it too.

And yes: weird she says this fall is the conflict, as we assume "Carousel" isn't rehearsing yet.