So sorry for another Wicked post, but I thought it might be interesting to note that Jenn Gambatese is joining the 1st National Tour of Wicked next week, as Glinda. This is certainly breaking Wicked's trend of hiring very young girls with few equity credits for Glinda. I'm excited for her, though.
Apparently she is very close friends with Shoshana bean. It would be cool if Shoshana came back and did a return stint. With her vocals now, she would take no prisoners.
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
sho and jen are very very close friends. but it would take alotta dough to get sho back in WICKED.
ESPECIALLY because she just released her second album. less than a week ago.
and wheres your source saying Jen's joining the tour? Kind of surprising, because her husband and daughter are her life. Hence why she's only done local projects lately...
I have no idea if this is accurate information or not, but Gambatese's age is hardly a concern. She looks incredibly young and always has.
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.
If this is true, I'm so excited for this. I loved Jenn in All Shook Up and she was one of the few good things about Tarzan, thus I'd love to see her as Glinda.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.