Come From Away - Phoenix / U.K & Ireland Tour 2024

Having watched the Tucker clip, Becky Gulsvig and the Broadway understudy (sorry can't remember her name), it makes you realise just how good Jenn Colella is, not just vocally but how well she acts in Me and the Sky

I keep looking at this thread and thinking of 'Fly Away Home'. Each time, I wonder how they're going to get the geese to behave on stage.

Re: "And somehow I'm 51".

Each of the cast members play multiple roles/characters during the show, this isn't the only character that Rachel will be playing. I guess it's 'age blind casting', as long as the story of these amazing people gets told, it doesn't matter what the cast look like necessarily. Jenn Colella has discussed this in multiple interviews, one of which is in the Broadway Backstory podcast, episode 15, it's mentioned about 36 minutes in, and might be elsewhere in that podcast too. Outside of this point, I'd definitely recommend listening to that episode for a bit of history on the show, it's fascinating.

Julie Reiber? I think she's done some PR events as Captain Bass.

www.ibdb.com/replacements/come-from-away-510272

And who has had months and months to practice and refine - there is no valid comparison at all!

I refer you both to the sentence before the one quoted...

That's right thank you

Snowflake forum, seriously. Seen plenty of criticism and healthy debate on here about all sorts of performers, Rachel included. Nobody's perfect every time though I do believe it harsh to judge based on one performance.
Unfortunately and this goes particularly for those formally of Wicked that they have their vociferous fans who will blindly defend anything they do and the Flip side is they have their critics who refuse to see past their dislike

I'm with Rukaya on this one too. Not forgetting, they have literally been rehearsing for like a day and Rachel only got her script this week.

I’d never heard the song before I heard Rachel’s version at the press event. Have to admit I’ve definitely heard Rachel sing better, and the performance didn’t particularly make me want to go and see her in the show. Maybe something to do with the acoustics in the room - as a singer myself, the argument of ‘it’s a new song for her’ doesn’t really stand with me as she will have been rehearsing this song for weeks.

Thought the group bits sounded lovely though - will definitely be visiting into the run.

If the producers are choosing to distribute videos of people singing excerpts from the show in order to publicise it, and some people find those performances lacking, then surely it’s acceptable to say that?

I’m sure RT will be fabulous when she’s got it under her belt (my assumption comes from the overwhelmingly positive reaction to her on here) but please don’t ask people to just overlook the inadequacy of those video performances because of her past record. She isn’t immune to criticism.

The point of those videos is to promote the show, on the basis of what we’ve seen of her so far... fail.

But also, if they announced the cast at this event, had the cast all gathered and didn’t offer a performance of some kind, then there would be critics asking why not. It’s probably not worth getting our knickers in a knot about. It was a nice idea and not terrible by any means.