Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
theatregeek25
Understudy Joined: 9/18/18
#1Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/24/22 at 3:55pm
I've been told Messing will not be performing in either of the Wednesday, 5/25 shows. I would like to see BIRTHDAY CANDLES on Thurs., 5/26. Does anyone know if she is scheduled to be in Thursday's show?
Updated On: 5/24/22 at 03:55 PM
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#2Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/24/22 at 4:04pm
Safe to assume Wednesday matinee will be her only missed day as the play ends it’s run on Sunday (May 29, 2022).
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/24/22 at 4:08pm
I would call The Roundabout to make sure.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#4Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/25/22 at 8:32am
She also missed a show or two last week, but no signs of anything on socials. I called Roundabout to inquire and they gave me quite the non-answer.
I am big. It’s the REVIVALS that got small.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#5Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/25/22 at 9:02am
The run ends on Sunday. Highly doubt she’ll be missing any more after today’s matinee performance.
#6Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/25/22 at 10:03am
So she’s just missing the matinee, not both performances?
I am big. It’s the REVIVALS that got small.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#7Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/25/22 at 10:28am
GiantsInTheSky2 said: "So she’s just missing the matinee, not both performances?"
Only the 2pm matinee today, according to the website.
#8Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/25/22 at 1:03pm
I saw BIRTHDAY CANDLES on May 18 (evening performance). Messing was out; her understudy, Kate Hampton, was competent but not particularly memorable. I liked the play itself but don't feel like it's well served by Vivienne Benesch's high-key, often cutesy production, which smooths some of the sharper, darker edges of the script. I'd be interested to see it again in a more naturalistic, less ornamented staging. Some very good acting in the ensemble, especially Susannah Flood (heartbreaking as the lead character's mentally unstable daughter) and Enrico Colantoni (who I hope does more stage work in the future). Weeknight house was maybe half full, perhaps due to Messing's absence, perhaps to the tepid reviews.
If you're only interested in seeing Messing, I'd recommend turning in your ticket if she's out. If you're interested in the play or any of the other actors, it might be worth staying. I definitely got the sense that the performance I saw was not Messing's first absence.
"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
#9Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/25/22 at 1:55pm
May 18th was actually Messing’s first absence of the run. I’m interested in seeing her understudy but Roundabout says she’s only going on for the matinee.
I am big. It’s the REVIVALS that got small.
EmmaCifront
Swing Joined: 3/31/22
#10Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/25/22 at 2:12pm
She WILL be on Thursday. She should be back for the rest of the performances, save for MAYBE Sat Matinee.
theatregeek25
Understudy Joined: 9/18/18
#11Deborah Messing: Scheduled Absences?
Posted: 5/26/22 at 12:41am
Thanks, everybody for your responses.
