It says she'll do the weekend performances, but who will play Sandy the other days?

ah ....got it! ANNA AIMEE WHITE

I loooove that story about Laura and Nate!! It's such a fairytale!

Ray, words straight from my mind to your lips! Their chemistry could wake the dead! And it would be one more unbelievable tale for their book of true life fairy tales. Max has been the greatest friend Laura could have had to do the role with and she has adored working with him every minute. But if for any reason he decides not to tour and Laura does tour, who could hold more public interest and intrigue in the role than Nate? I'd probably buy a ticket to go see it every night they're in Minneapolis! (Of course, I probably would anyway no matter who is Danny....but I'm just saying....!)

Ray, you make me laugh! Interestingly enough, I think Nate and Laura aren't real sure how it would work to co-star together--not that the uncertainty would center particularly on playing these two Grease characters--but more just wondering how that would be! You know, husband-wife, now co-starts together too? Is it better to not do that? They don't know. They've been in a show together before and that seemed great--but they both played separate parts and only co-starred as understudies once together in Aladdin. They likely wouldn't get any kind of CHOICE in this casting matter anyway as the producers will cast the show the way they see fit. However, I'm just the Mom and I'm just saying I think it would be a VERY attractive option to the public to see Nate and Laura together if Max decides another direction. And I personally would get a hoot out of it too. Nate has a great sense of humor and plenty of confidence. I think he could handle chasing the starlet just fine! Can Laura handle the teenage girls googling over her husband? That's the next question. If it's anything like how they google over Max that could be an interesting dynamic. I think on stage and in the theatre they would just have to be professionals playing their parts--whichever parts those are. When they go home, they can be husband and wife. I think they'd successfully draw those lines if they work together and would enjoy themselves. But first of all...everyone has to make their decisions and/or negotiate successfully working deals and we haven't arrived at that yet...so much is still unknown. This week Laura and Nate get to go relax on a little vacation so let the world go away for a few days!

I'm a strong advocate of touring - as everyone already knows. It's great preparation for a theatrical career - when the jobs run low in NY, there's always a touring company.

And the Papermill Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, and the other regional Equity houses.

Whether or not a husband and wife should tour together - it worked for the Lunts. But they were an older couple. For twenty year olds?

And by "guy things," you mean...

haha Mr. E cracks me up - I dont know what we would do without his whit in this forum


-- Edited by stlgreaser at 03:24, 2008-02-13

Laura and Nate got back from there vacation and Laura was talking that they might go see the show as an audience member last night. She had arranged to take a full week off from the show so was not due to perform again until tomorrow night (Tuesday). It is an extremely rare and fun treat for a cast member to actually get to sit in the audience and see their show. If they did decide to do that, I hope they enjoyed it and started the standing ovation! Ha!

I suppose that could be a point, Mr. E, but I would speculate they could make them quite inconspicuous if so desired. Maybe they'd hide them in the sound booth or something like that. Most theatres I've been in have some kind of location like that for part of the technical workings of the show. They wouldn't have to sit front row center!

-- Edited by Laura Mom at 23:37, 2008-02-18