Ana Gasteyer in Wicked???

[crp2000]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:35am

Okay - i've seen/heard Ana spoof Celine Dion on SNL, but i had no idea she could actually sing!! What's this i'm hearing about her playing Elphie in Wicked? And what exactly is a 'sit down' production? Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:47am

A sit-down is a non-touring production. It's usually applied to a show that plans a one year-or-more run in one particular city. In "Wicked"'s case, that city is Chicago.

[MissNY]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:47am

Yes, Ana can sing. I've seen her perfrom at a few events. A "sit down" is a production that remains in one place. After the tour leaves Chicago, the new Wicked production will open with a new cast to remain in Chicago.

[pab]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:47am

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=843236&dt=032605120024

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=843329#896122

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=842297#872997

[crp2000]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:54am

WTF!?!?! I always forget to do the search thing! thanks, pab!

[Che2be]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:59am

I actually heard somewhere- not here... That Ana is actually classically trained in voice. You can kinda tell when she spoofs Celine. I bet she will be great... The producers would probably not cast someone who could not fill the shoes of such a demanding role so early in it's tour...

[pab]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:22am

"At one point in her college years she persued a career in voice, even operatic singing."
Ana Gasteyer's Bio

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:45am

You can also catch her singing in the soon to be released REEFER MADNESS on Showtime.

[mallardo]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 12:10pm

But isn't she a little - pardon me for saying it - old for the part? I'm assuming she's somewhere near forty. Can she convince as college girl Elpheba?

[wildcat]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 12:24pm

Green is a great concealer.

[wicked4life51]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 12:44pm

telly leung will be playing boq and kristopoher kussick will be playinf fiyero (both i am very close freinds with,they told me themselves when i went out to dinner with them)

[ElTico68]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 12:46pm

"But isn't she a little - pardon me for saying it - old for the part? I'm assuming she's somewhere near forty. Can she convince as college girl Elpheba?"

Isn't Idina in her mid-30s? I don't think age is an issue...

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 3/30/05 at 1:16pm

I doubt it but are there pictures of her as Elphaba yet?

[MusicSnob22]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:42am

"But isn't she a little - pardon me for saying it - old for the part? I'm assuming she's somewhere near forty. Can she convince as college girl Elpheba?"

I really don't think that they (the casting agents) care about age with respect to the story of Wicked. If they did, they probably would have cast someone as Fiyero who didn't look old enough to play one of the professors. But they did, and Norbert did an amazing job even though I thought he looked out of place compared to the rest of the cast. I'm sure that Ana Gasteyer will also do an amazing job, as she did in Funny Girl with Pittsburgh CLO.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:52am

yes, wicked.. you are such CLOSE friends with them that you can't spell one of their names correctly on a message board and have to 'casually' mention to everyone that you know them.

[La Vie Boheme]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:59am

Oh snap...

Youre amazing Broadwayguy! I was thinking that myself.

[TheatreIsMyAntiDrug]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 12:32pm

Baaaaaazing.

As to Ana playing Elphaba, I personally would be interested in seeing how she is.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 1:12pm

There are rumors that Stacie Morgain Lewis will be Galinda.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 1:14pm

http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/sho-sunday-ana03.html

[Joshua488]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 2:03pm

I was thinking the same thing, broadwayguy2.

Yes, I'm sure they are *so* close. I consider a close friend to be someone that I would call if, say, my mom died. Not a C-list Broadway actor.

[Derek]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 4:46pm

I just watched her in Mean Girls...she does seem a little old, but I guess anything is possible

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:01pm

Who was she in Mean Girls?

[commasplice]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:06pm

Lindsay Lohan's mom.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:27pm

Oh. Wow. I never would have guessed!
The fertility vase line is hilarious!

[PJ]

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:04pm

Wicked4life51 thinks that meeting an actor backstage and/or at the stage door automatically makes him *BeSt FrIeNdZ* with them. This kid is just too much.