{"id":92775,"date":"2024-06-30T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T06:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92775"},"modified":"2024-06-30T23:43:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T06:43:57","slug":"interesting-musical-casts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/06\/30\/interesting-musical-casts\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Musical Casts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some curious casting news, <strong>Andrew Rannells <\/strong>is out of the <em>Broadway <\/em>musical <strong><em>Tammy Faye<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; He originated the role of <strong>Jim Bakker <\/strong>in London\u2019s <em>West End<\/em>, and was announced for the US transfer.&nbsp; He broke the news on the red carpet at the <em>Tony Awards<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m actually not doing <em>Tammy Faye <\/em>anymore, I\u2019m very sad to say.&nbsp; I was very excited.&nbsp; I\u2019m a huge fan of the show and unfortunately, we got into a situation where we couldn\u2019t quite find terms that made everyone happy, which is really disappointing.&nbsp; Which is why normally they don\u2019t announce an actor before the contract.\u201d&nbsp; Ouch!&nbsp; Adding insult to injury, he\u2019s been replaced with his <strong><em>Falsettos<\/em><\/strong> co-star, <strong>Christian Borle<\/strong>!&nbsp; On the positive side, Rannells gets to sleep with <strong>Tuc Watkins <\/strong>anytime he wants \u2013 and from what I hear, that is no small consolation.&nbsp; If nothing else, it\u2019s gotta ease the pain \u2013 or perhaps replace it with a more pleasurable one.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people get cast in musicals away from the <em>Broadway <\/em>stage, and it makes big news.&nbsp; Such was the case when the <em>Ogunquit Playhouse <\/em>announced a single cast member for their upcoming production of <strong>Stephen Sondheim<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>A Little Night Music<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Kathleen Turner<\/strong>!&nbsp; The <em>Broadway <\/em>vet is taking on the role of Madame Armfeldt, previously played by such actors as <strong>Hermione Gingold<\/strong>, <strong>Angela Lansbury<\/strong>, and <strong>Elaine Stritch<\/strong>.&nbsp; The production runs July 18 though August 17, so I\u2019d recommend being fleet of foot to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.OgunquitPlayhouse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>OgunquitPlayhouse.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some curious casting news, Andrew Rannells is out of the Broadway musical Tammy Faye.&nbsp; He originated the role of Jim Bakker in London\u2019s West End, and was announced for the US transfer.&nbsp; He broke the news on the red carpet at the Tony Awards.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m actually not doing Tammy Faye anymore, I\u2019m very sad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92776,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775\/revisions\/92776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}