CanadianSnowbird - is it definite that she will be leaving before Toronto? And all this talk of her going to broadway when Eden leaves, is there any truth in that or is it all wishful thinking? Because I reallllly want to see her and my only hope is if she's doing the role *somewhere* next Jan or Feb...sigh
I could TOTALLY be wrong, but I know from someone who works very closely with the Broadway production that it may very well NOT be Murney replacing Eden . . .
Her going to Broadway is not official by any means (although most of us are assuming it will happen.)
HOWEVER, her only doing the show six months is indeed fact. If you listen to her interview on Jim Caruso's Cast Party, she states two or three times that her run is very much a limited engagement, and that she will only be with the show for six months.
In the same interview, she says all the cities people can see her in, and the last one she names is Costa Mesa (August 9th- 20th,) so I assume that will be her last stop.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Hmmm, was checking out the onsale date for Cleveland [4/28] and saw that they will be having a performance Monday, July 3, and no performance Tuesday, July 4...wonder why.
Just "saw" Julia's DG from her second performance. Indeed.... amazing.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Yeah. My mom saw Lennon with me and was (a) too smitten with Will to care about the rest of them and (b) not impressed with Julia wailing on whatever note that was. She's silly.
Julia was AMAZING!!!!! I can't think of anything else to say about her, but that she was brilliant and perfect! It was only her second performance (I saw the Thurs. matinee) and she already owns the role. I really wanna see her again in a month or so to see how much she grows. She looked beautiful green, and blew the roof off the very large P&G Hall, like I knew she would.
Alma Cuervo, the new Morrible, was devilishly good. She had two mess ups. When she came in to give Galinda her wand, she called out to her, "Miss Elphaba!" Oops. Also, during her speech in the middle of Defying Gravity, she dropped the line about Elphie being responsible for the mutilation of the monkeys and just repeated "She is evil!"
PJ Benjamin, the new Wizard, was his same bland uninteresting self as when he played Amos in CHICAGO on Broadway all those years.
Kendra was a yawn. I've read on these boards that she doesn't normally do matinees, so I don't know if she was being forced to be there for consistency for the new cast members or what, but she definately phoned this one in. She sped through her lines and raced her way through the Popular scene.
Sebastian was HOT! He had some great moments, but at other times was kinda "beige." And when he swung in on the rope to save Elphaba was weak!
Well, this is what I remember. I'm hoping to do lotto before the show leaves, I was way up in the third balc and am glad I got to see the "whole picture," but now I wanna see faces!
According to her, she does them on a case to case basis. Most of the time she will do them, but if she isn't feeling well or she feels strained or just tired, she wants it known that she is not obligated to do them.
I saw the show four times here in Ft Lauderdale (once being a matinee,) and she was in all four times. I know that over the course of the two week run she missed three shows, two of which were evening performances and one a matinee. So there really is no way of telling when she'll be out.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.