chocchipcookie26 wrote:
And yes, Brad will be performing again, although 31st was official last show, he'll be doing Saturday shows this month and i think, next
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This has come up before when other Billys have had their "official" last show only to return and do more over the next month or two, but I'm surprised the production team doesn't just wait and have their "official" last show when it really
is their last performance. I know sometimes they don't think they
will be performing again and then unusual circumstances require them to be brought back for awhile (such as with James Lomas and more recently Kiril Kulish who returned to the theater as a stand-by).
But in the case with Brad (and with Leon Cooke, for example) it seems a little strange to have all the hoopla, the tearful farewell scenes and announcements made before the show about it being their last performance when they know darn well that they will be scheduled to do more shows in the coming weeks. Although I'm sure it doesn't matter to casual fans of the show, to those of us who follow the production closely - and to the actor himself - it seems too bad to invest all that emotion into it being their final show and then soon after to effectively be told, "Just kidding!"
On the positive side, it will give those people who hadn't had a chance to see Brad perform yet quite a few more chances to see him. I was sorry it didn't work out for me to see him this past summer after reading all the positive comments about him on here.