CAROUSEL CAST replacements

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CAROUSEL CAST replacements#1
Posted: 4/14/18 at 4:05pm

I was looking at Renee Fleming's schedule and it appears she is only in Carousel until the end of August? Am I reading this right? She has many concerts in September and October I wonder who the replacement might be. Does anyone know who her understudy might be?

Interesting if she in fact has only a 6 month contract with the show. But then she is a still a busy concert singer in the classical world.

https://reneefleming.com/schedule/

(Post edited was never very good in math!)

Updated On: 4/14/18 at 04:05 PM

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CAROUSEL CAST replacements#2
Posted: 4/14/18 at 4:08pm

Actually, that's a 6-month contract, which is perfectly reasonable.

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CAROUSEL CAST replacements#3
Posted: 4/14/18 at 11:15pm

If you look at the NYT Review from the other night. The show a closing date of 9-2-18. While I don’t think it’s intended to read as an actual closing date, and many other sources show an open run, I do think it could indicate an end date for OBC contracts. That said, August does not seem that far fetched. Her current understudies per the Playbill are Rosena Hill Jackson and Amy Justman.

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CAROUSEL CAST replacements#4
Posted: 4/15/18 at 8:46am

I interviewed Fleming last fall. Of course things could have changed, but she told me at that time that she was contracted through December 2018. It's likely that her contract includes time off for pre-scheduled concert appearances. I would be surprised if she left for good as quickly as August, though.

"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: 4/15/18 at 08:46 AM

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CAROUSEL CAST replacements#5
Posted: 5/1/18 at 12:00pm

Longtime shill here - they should get Kelly Clarkson to replace Jessie Mueller.

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CAROUSEL CAST replacements#6
Posted: 5/5/18 at 1:52pm

AC126748, here is the info about that from Telecharge:

"* Please note that Renée Fleming will not be performing the role of Nettie Fowler during the following periods:

- Tuesday, September 4, 2018 through Sunday, October 28, 2018
- Thursday, December 27, 2018 through Sunday, January 6, 2019"

Looks like she'll be gone for a while doing a lot of concerts but is still staying with the show. I wonder if there will be a temporary replacement or if they will just give the understudies an opportunity to play the role.

Updated On: 5/5/18 at 01:52 PM