Actors who are not returning to their roles
Actors who are not returning to their roles
#1Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:22am
Obviously there have been a few high-profile cases of actors who are not returning to their reopening shows -- Karen Olivo, for example -- but it's still been hard to tell exactly who is and isn't returning to most productions. I haven't seen a thread on this, so I was hoping this would be a place to centralize the information. I've listed a couple that have been announced -- can others add to the list?
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY -- Colton Ryan
FLYING OVER SUNSET -- Erika Henningsen
JAGGED LITTLE PILL -- Celia Rose Gooding, Elizabeth Stanley (maternity leave)
COMPANY -- Kyle Dean Massey
MOULIN ROUGE -- Karen Olivo, several ensemble members
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD -- most of the March 2020 cast
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY -- Ben Miles
THE MINUTES -- Armie Hammer
COME FROM AWAY -- Chad Kimball
"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: 9/20/21 at 11:22 AM
bway0
Stand-by Joined: 5/8/21
#2Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:38am
Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer. Almost the entire Hadestown cast came back except for her. No mention why she didn't return.
Kay Trinidad Kerns is on maternity leave now and will return to the show at some point.
#3Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:38am
I have kept a list of all the principal cast members of Broadway musicals who will NOT be returning upon reopening. Thus far:
Doreen Montalvo (Janet Lundy, Mrs. Doubtfire) - died October 2020
Karen Olivo (Satine, Moulin Rouge!) - backed out due to social injustice / Rudin physical abuse allegations
Kyle Dean Massey (Theo, Company) - impending birth of child in fall w/husband
Colton Ryan (Gene Laine, Girl from the North Country) - TV/film conflicts
Erika Jayne (Roxie Hart, Chicago) - stunt casting
Amra-Faye Wright (Velma Kelly, Chicago) - stunt casting
NaTasha Yvette Williams (Matron “Mama” Morton, Chicago) - stunt casting
Ryan Silverman (Billy Flynn, Chicago) - stunt casting
Ephraim Sykes (Michael Jackson, MJ) - film conflicts
Chad Kimball (Kevin T., Garth, and others, Come From Away) - anti-vaccine
Petrina Bromley (Bonnie and others, Come From Away) - TBA THRU 10/8/21 ONLY
Daniel Breaker (Aaron Burr, Hamilton) - TBA
Patrick Page (Hades, Hadestown) - film conflict THRU 10/31/21 ONLY
Kay Trinidad (Fate, Hadestown) - maternity leave THRU JANUARY ‘22 ONLY
Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer (Fate, Hadestown) - TBA
Bradley Gibson (Simba, The Lion King) - TV/film conflicts
Ben Roseberry (Ed, The Lion King) - TBA
Bryan Holden Chan and Haven Alexander (Young Simba, The Lion King) - aged out of role
Aliya Ramey and Layla Capers (Young Nala, The Lion King) - aged out of role
Ainsley Melham (Aladdin, Aladdin) - TBA
Arielle Jacobs (Jasmine, Aladdin) - TBA (will Between the Lines reopen Off-Broadway?)
Brian Gonzales (Babkak, Aladdin) - TBA
Shoba Narayan (Nessarose, Wicked) - cast in Aladdin
Erika Henningsen (Ann Clare Brokaw / Judith, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
Jeremy Kushnier (Father / Dr. Harris, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
Dave Thomas Brown (Elder Price, The Book of Mormon) - TBA
Elizabeth Stanley (Mary Jane Healy, Jagged Little Pill) - maternity leave
Celia Rose Gooding (Frankie Healy, Jagged Little Pill) - TV conflicts
Kelsey Connolly (Meg Giry, The Phantom of the Opera) - TBA
Oh look, a bibu!
Alexander Lamar
Broadway Star Joined: 2/16/16
#4Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:43amDo the Chicago cast changes really count as stunt casting?
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#5Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:43am
Jordan Levinson said: "I have kept a list of all the principal cast members of Broadway musicals who will NOT be returning upon reopening. Thus far:
Doreen Montalvo (Janet Lundy, Mrs. Doubtfire) - died October 2020
Karen Olivo (Satine, Moulin Rouge!) - backed out due to social injustice / Rudin physical abuse allegations
Kyle Dean Massey (Theo, Company) - impending birth of child in fall w/husband
Colton Ryan (Gene Laine, Girl from the North Country) - TV/film conflicts
Erika Jayne (Roxie Hart, Chicago) - stunt casting
Amra-Faye Wright (Velma Kelly, Chicago) - stunt casting
NaTasha Yvette Williams (Matron “Mama” Morton, Chicago) - stunt casting
Ryan Silverman (Billy Flynn, Chicago) - stunt casting
Ephraim Sykes (Michael Jackson, MJ) - film conflicts
Chad Kimball (Kevin T., Garth, and others, Come From Away) - anti-vaccine
Petrina Bromley (Bonnie and others, Come From Away) - TBA THRU 10/8/21 ONLY
Daniel Breaker (Aaron Burr, Hamilton) - TBA
Patrick Page (Hades, Hadestown) - film conflict THRU 10/31/21 ONLY
Kay Trinidad (Fate, Hadestown) - maternity leave THRU JANUARY ‘22 ONLY
Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer (Fate, Hadestown) - TBA
Bradley Gibson (Simba, The Lion King) - TV/film conflicts
Ben Roseberry (Ed, The Lion King) - TBA
Bryan Holden Chan and Haven Alexander (Young Simba, The Lion King) - aged out of role
Aliya Ramey and Layla Capers (Young Nala, The Lion King) - aged out of role
Ainsley Melham (Aladdin, Aladdin) - TBA
Arielle Jacobs (Jasmine, Aladdin) - TBA (will Between the Lines reopen Off-Broadway?)
Brian Gonzales (Babkak, Aladdin) - TBA
Shoba Narayan (Nessarose, Wicked) - cast in Aladdin
Erika Henningsen (Ann Clare Brokaw / Judith, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
Jeremy Kushnier (Father / Dr. Harris, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
Dave Thomas Brown (Elder Price, The Book of Mormon) - TBA
Elizabeth Stanley (Mary Jane Healy, Jagged Little Pill) - maternity leave
Celia Rose Gooding (Frankie Healy, Jagged Little Pill) - TV conflicts
Kelsey Connolly (Meg Giry, The Phantom of the Opera) - TBA
"
None of these 3 could even remotely be considered "stunt casting"
Amra-Faye Wright (Velma Kelly, Chicago) - stunt casting
NaTasha Yvette Williams (Matron “Mama” Morton, Chicago) - stunt casting
Ryan Silverman (Billy Flynn, Chicago) - stunt casting
And these 2 are flat out lies:
Erika Henningsen (Ann Clare Brokaw / Judith, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
Jeremy Kushnier (Father / Dr. Harris, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
And I fixed this one for you:
Karen Olivo (Satine, Moulin Rouge!) - backed out due to "perceived" social injustice, and mental instability
bway0
Stand-by Joined: 5/8/21
#6Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:47amNaTasha Yvette Williams joined Chicken & Biscuits.
#7Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:58am
I'm curious as to the last Christine alternate in Phantom, as Emilie Kouatchou will assume the role when the show reopens.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Updated On: 9/20/21 at 11:58 AM
#8Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 11:58am
Dave Thomas Brown was planning to leave Mormon in April 2020 anyway. (I can't find the post right now, but he posted it on one of his social media accounts.)
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#9Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 12:03pm
DottieD'Luscia said: "I'm curious as to the last Christine alternate in Phantom, as Emilie Kouatchou will assume the role when the show reopens."
I believe it was Eryn LeCroy
Oh look, a bibu!
chrishuyen
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
#10Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 12:14pmI assumed Erika Henningson left due to other film/TV commitments but I'll admit that's a complete guess on my part.
#11Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 12:21pm
There's a similar thread about who's not returning (but this one is a lot more digestible):
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1124709&page=3
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#12Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 12:30pm
Jordan Levinson said: "DottieD'Luscia said: "I'm curious as to the last Christine alternate in Phantom, as Emilie Kouatchou will assume the role when the show reopens."
I believe it was Eryn LeCroy"
Eryn and Kelsey were scheduled to leave at the same time. No idea for Kelsey, but Eryn was leaving to work on 1776 I believe.
Lunalaaaaaaaa
Broadway Star Joined: 7/16/21
#13Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 12:35pm
Could we say Amber Gray? A lot of people keep saying that she won't stay with the show too much longer.
Also Patrick Page. Replaced by Tom Hewitt (and Patrick is set to return in November)
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#14Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 12:52pm
Can you link where Kushnier and Henningsen's reasons for leaving have been confirmed? They can't be fired for those reasons, as you know, but conflicts with other projects are likely.
#15Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 1:32pm
bway0 said: "Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer. Almost the entire Hadestown cast came back except for her. No mention why she didn't return.
Kay Trinidad Kerns is on maternity leave now and will return to the show at some point.
"
Yvette had actually left very shortly before the shutdown if I recall, and it was originally temporary. I was there March 9th and I believe that was the first day she was gone.
#16Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 1:45pm
Henningsen said on a podcast last week that she opted not to return to the production so that she could focus on film and television opportunities. I do not know why Kushnier isn't returning or the circumstances of his departure (i.e., whether it was voluntary).
"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
#17Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 1:54pm
soulmistin said: "bway0 said: "Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer. Almost the entire Hadestown cast came back except for her. No mention why she didn't return.
Kay Trinidad Kerns is on maternity leave now and will return to the show at some point.
"
Yvette had actually leftveryshortly before the shutdown if I recall, and it was originally temporary. I was there March 9th and I believe that was the first day she was gone."
i was at their final show before the shutdown (wednesday March 11, 2020) and can confirm that Yvette was indeed on that night, and she was PHENOMINAL. The new Fates are pretty good, but they seem to lack the dynamic chemistry that Jewelle, Kay and Yvette had (just my two cents......)
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup
Updated On: 9/20/21 at 01:54 PM
#18Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 2:16pm
AC126748 said: "Henningsen said on a podcast last week that she opted not to return to the production so that she could focus on film and television opportunities."
Was it the Drama. podcast? (I haven't listened yet, but I saw she was on it.)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fearless-with-erika-henningsen/id1485508517?i=1000535390080
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#19Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/20/21 at 2:27pm
LizzieCurry said: "AC126748 said: "Henningsen said on a podcast last week that she opted not to return to the production so that she could focus on film and television opportunities."
Was it the Drama. podcast? (I haven't listened yet, but I saw she was on it.)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fearless-with-erika-henningsen/id1485508517?i=1000535390080"
Yes, that's the podcast.
"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
Lousy
Understudy Joined: 6/10/13
#20Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/29/21 at 3:29am
Jordan Levinson said: "I have kept a list of all the principal cast members of Broadway musicals who will NOT be returning upon reopening. Thus far:
Ainsley Melham (Aladdin, Aladdin) - TBA"
As an update on this one, he's back in Australia and leading Merrily We Roll Along in Sydney. I imagine the original contract was only for a specified term arranged through the talent exchange between AEA and MEAA.
No one gives a damn about the list of shows you've seen.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#21Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:24am
*correction*
Amra-Faye Wright- Ended her run after 13 years
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
SFFrontRow
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/05
#22Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/29/21 at 3:39pm
Erica Jayne - Chicago... LOL
I think maybe she couldn't come back because she got temporary dementia, flipped her car 5 times, broke her ankle which turned into a head injury, forgot to wear waterproof mascara for her big acting scene then her eye exploded, had to "downgrade" to a $1.5 million dollar home, demanded to keep her $40K per month glam squad, received $20 million in her LLC Erica Jayne company account from some airline victims, and was called out by a castmate named Sutton (not Foster), and then threatened to "come after" her.
Sorry, off topic but had to snark a little when I saw her name in a post as "not returning" to Chicago.
#23Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/30/21 at 3:01pm
Jordan Levinson said: "I have kept a list of all the principal cast members of Broadway musicals who will NOT be returning upon reopening. Thus far:
Erika Henningsen (Ann Clare Brokaw / Judith, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
Jeremy Kushnier (Father / Dr. Harris, Flying Over Sunset) - replaced for increased diversity
"
Still waiting on evidence of this.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#24Actors who are not returning to their roles
Posted: 9/30/21 at 10:01pm
Antonio Cipriano has also departed Jagged Little Pill
Updated On: 9/30/21 at 10:01 PM