{"id":43824,"date":"2025-05-09T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43824"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:30:31","slug":"dolly-fan-upset-by-musical-casting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/dolly-fan-upset-by-musical-casting-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Fans Upset By Musical Casting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world premiere of the Dolly Parton musical is taking place this summer in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, they announced the three actresses who would be playing Dolly at different points in her life.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJRrhiLtvmE\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Now some fans are upset because none of the three women were found during the highly publicized &#8220;Search for Dolly&#8221; open casting call that took place last year.<\/p>\n<p>During that online search, fans were bummed that certain favorites weren&#8217;t selected for the stage show.<\/p>\n<p>So now, folks are saying it was all just a big marketing ploy to get more people talking about the musical. And maybe so, but can you blame them? It&#8217;s a lot of free press . . . and just because you&#8217;re auditioning, doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re guaranteed anything.<\/p>\n<p>But the online casting process wasn&#8217;t totally pointless. There are rumours that two people were actually cast, they just got smaller parts in the show, or might&#8217;ve been cast as Dolly understudies.<\/p>\n<p>So, for anyone saying they feel &#8220;bamboozled&#8221; by this casting news, you&#8217;ll be fine. The producers just went with the best actors and singers for the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans Are Saying That the &#8220;Search for Dolly&#8221; Open Casting Call Was Just a Marketing Ploy","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":39866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2988,83,6265,5251],"class_list":["post-43824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-dolly-parton-musical","tag-musical"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 22:10:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/dolly-fan-upset-by-musical-casting-process\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43829,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43824\/revisions\/43829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}