Ticketmaster has 3 performances listed as "If/Then (Idina Menzel not appearing) on 9/30, 10/1, and 10/2. Interesting that they putting this info out. If anyone wants to see Jackie this looks like your best bet.
As much as I like Jackie, I really hope Jenn Colella gets to do the role! It probably won't happen, but, as mentioned in other If/Then threads, she'd sing the sh!t out of that score! Updated On: 8/28/14 at 10:11 PM
I really want it to happen as well. I'd almost rather see Jenn. Don't get me wrong, I love Idina but I think it would me one if those magical theatrical moments I would talk about forever. Plus I just really want her to get a chance. Maybe it will happen like Legally Blonde. They will let her go on once just cause. That's what happened with Annaleigh Ashford. She covered Elle and got to go on one time during its broadway run.
The idea of a star deliberately stepping out to let an understudy perform at the expense of paying customers is infuriating. The Broadway economy is bad enough as it is, and the idea of lowering the level of service provided to the only people who are going to keep it alive is frustrating! I don't know if it's true, but apparently Alice Ripley did a similar thing to let an understudy perform with their husband in NEXT TO NORMAL?
I suppose it's different if they are swapping and understudy with an understudy (if that was the idea here).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
The post is in response to a hypothetical situation proposed by gleek4114. I don't believe in reality the producers would actually ever let it happen for IF/THEN.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Was Idina in fact out last night? I found two posts on twitter, one from someone who seemed to think she was, and another from someone who seemed to think she wasn't.
"Well Jackie already went on, so that would blow that theory right out the window. "
What are you talking about? She went on because Idina was sick. That has nothing to do with what I or the other poster is taking about. Please re-read the posts.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
I was in the orchestra - so don't know how many seats in the mezz were empty, but it wasn't a huge section of people missing in the orchestra last night.