Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price. (BroadwayWorld.com)

dramamama611

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Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price.
Posted: 11/8/12 at 06:39pm

I'm thinking that's pretty perfect casting.

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Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price.
Posted: 11/8/12 at 07:00pm

um...YES

LizzieCurry

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Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price.
Posted: 11/8/12 at 07:00pm

I'm not looking forward to the SRO lines, but I'm curious! I've never seen him in anything.

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 07:18pm

Terrific casting.

He was my favorite Melchior in SA and the sole bright spot in that awful production of BYE BYE BIRDIE.

"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

dramamama611

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 07:30pm

I didn't love his Melchior, but I will listen to that man sing ANY day of the week. I wasn't planning on catching this again (was hoping to catch Gavin on tour) but this might just change my mind.

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 07:46pm

You may not have ended up seeing Gavin on tour anyway... scroll. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2230204/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Fames-silver-lining-Bradley-Cooper-whos-longer-sexiest-man-alive.html

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Updated On: 11/8/12 at 07:46 PM

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 07:56pm

I knew something was up. People were congratulating him on twitter, but Matt was denying it. Glad it's official now. Perfect casting.

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Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price.
Posted: 11/8/12 at 08:00pm

When would you think Creel and Gertners' last performance would be? I had tickets for the Portland engagement in January, I'm still excited to see the show! I wonder who their replacements will be?

LizzieCurry

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 08:28pm

I don't think they'd have to leave until January. Hm.

And Jared has confirmed it. https://twitter.com/JaredGertner/status/266712702368485376

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dramamama611

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 09:20pm

Yes! I saw the news about Creel after I posted my "dilemma". He will not make it to Boston! Now if I'm just willing to wait in SRO agian.....hmmmm.

I would guess that Gavin won't do much of the tour after Thanksgiving: they open in London in mid-Jan, yes? (or previews) So I would imagine he'll need to be there in rehearsal soon.

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 10:10pm

I'm thinking they may drop out of the SF run about halfway or most of the way through; we'll see!

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Posted: 11/8/12 at 10:16pm

The San Francisco run ends Dec. 30. I would think they'd end with the San Fran. run, have a week or two off and then head over to London. They start previews Feb. 25 & open March 21.

A Chorus Line played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013.

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 01:27am

Am I the only one who thinks Matt Doyle is a weird choice? I just don't see him as Elder Price. I know most of the guys who have played the role and they're very smiley and sweet guys in real life. Matt doesn't come across quite that way...

CATSNYrevival

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 01:46am

^It's called acting.

And it's not an odd choice to me. Matt is gonna rock that score harder than Gavin does.

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Updated On: 11/9/12 at 01:46 AM

broadwayguy2

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 02:23am

I have never found Matt Doyle to be anything other than smiley and sweet.. ever.

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 09:53am

This is great news! I think Matt is so talented. Just wish there was a way to see him. Oh, well.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

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Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price.
Posted: 11/9/12 at 11:44am

Side note:

On the Broadway.com & BWW announcement yesterday, it said that Cale Krise was Cunningham along with the official BOM website. On Playbill announcement today, it said that Will Blum was Cunningham and he's now on the official BOM website.

Was yesterday Cale's last show...?

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 12:41pm

No. Cale and Will switch off every other week and the website is updated accordingly (s well as the poster outside). Broadway.com and BWW probably only checked the website when they wrote the story and didn't realize there were two Cunninghams.

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Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price.
Posted: 11/9/12 at 12:47pm

Mark Evans (Ghost in the West End) is apparently the new Elder Price on tour according to the Ghost facebook page

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 01:00pm

Wow. I'd heard he was in the US, but wasn't sure why.

Could you send a direct link, please? I went to https://www.facebook.com/ghostthemusical and https://www.facebook.com/ghostbroadway and saw nothing.

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 01:06pm

Mark Evans as Price and Chris O'Niel as Elder Cunningham were briefly up on the Mormon website, but was immediately taken down. Link below should be a print screen.

http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=273

LizzieCurry

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 01:09pm

Whoah. That doesn't work, though -- do you have to be a member of the WOS board to see attachments?

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 01:12pm

Possibly...

Try this link:

Should say, credit to BAGibb on the Whatsonstage forum for spotting this.

Updated On: 11/9/12 at 01:12 PM

LizzieCurry

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 01:15pm

Hot damn. Thanks! Looks like they hadn't even fixed the italics tag yet...

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Posted: 11/9/12 at 05:07pm

Is it safe to assume this means that Doyle won't be moving forward with Diner?

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dramamama611

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Matt Doyle takes over as Elder Price.
Posted: 11/9/12 at 05:59pm

That is correct.^

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