Tuesday, June 1, 2004

AND NEXT, LEAH LABELLE AS GYPSY ROSE LEE! Yes, we have more bizarre Broadway casting for you. The much-beloved around here Frenchie Davis will be re-joining "Rent" for a few months in the role of "Seasons of Love Soloist." She joins Melanie Brown (f/k/a "Scary Spice"), who's currently playing Mimi. (On a completely unrelated note, one of my favorite museum labels ever was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute "Fashion of Rock" exhibition--it was for Geri Halliwell's Union Jack boots from her time as a Spice Girl, and the label actually read "Geri Halliwell, f/k/a Ginger Spice.")

While we're at it, Jai Rodriguez is rejoining the cast to play Angel for two weeks in mid-July. Still explicable. But not at all explicable is the fact that Drew Lachey (yes, the other one, the one not married to that dimwit) will join the cast of "Rent" to play Mark, the geeky documentary filmmaker.

Haven't they learned anything? Stars don't sell tickets! Puppets do!

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