Best Elphaba- Page 2
Best Elphaba
2blocksfrombway
Understudy Joined: 2/8/07
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#27re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 1:41pmI've only seen Shoshana in the role, and I thought she was kinda weird and not that great. Does that count as a negative 1/2 point?
#28re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 2:43pmJulia Murney-I thought that she understood the character on deeper levels then the other girls.
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#31re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:06pmJulia Murney
#33re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:28pmWhen I saw Austin do Elphie in the sit-down Dallas, Texas Production he was good, but then he mahorly cracked on NGD...I was like wtf. He also gave sexy eyes to the lion when they killed it.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#35re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:44pm
JULIA MURNEY IS WINNING:
8 JULIA MURNEY
7 IDINA MENZEL
4 ANA GASTEYER
2 STEPHANIE J. BLOCK
2 SHOSHANA BEAN
1 EDEN ESPINOSA
1 KRISTY CATES
0 DEE ROSCIOLI
0 VICTORIA MATLOCK
0 KERRY ELLIS
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#36re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:45pm
My fav without a doubt is SJB
then idina, sho, victoria, coleen, maria, then jenna
NYC4Life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#38re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:52pmBlock
#39re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:52pmThe best Elphaba hasn't been born yet.
bardolator
Featured Actor Joined: 3/8/06
#40re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:54pmStephanie J. Block; she has a depth and a, well, "darkness," to her voice that I think fits Elphaba's personality very well. Though she did a wonderful job in the first act, it was as the adult Elphaba, in Act II, that I really think she came into her own (especially in "No Good Deed"--dear LORD but she scared me at one point in that song...and then broke my heart the next moment).
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#41re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 3:59pm
Very off topic, but -
bardolator, surely the O'Malley Family motto in your sig should be Irish, not Latin. ? ? ?
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#42re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:01pmI believe Suri Cruise will go down in history as the best Elphaba.
pinkyhip
Swing Joined: 5/20/05
#43re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:02pmJulia Murney - shows the best depth as an actress playing this role and her singing is amazing (we knew that!)
chelle08
Swing Joined: 3/6/06
#44re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:05pmRoscioli. She makes all the vocals seem absolutely effortless -- she's the only Elphaba that can nail the end of "Defying Gravity" without having to search around for the notes. It's just there. And that's how all of her vocals are. She also plays a very mysterious and lost-in-her-own-brain Elphaba, which is so accurate to Maguire's character.
#45re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:06pmJulia Murney, closely followed by Idina
FallintoLight
Featured Actor Joined: 11/12/06
#46re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:08pmvmlinnie- I think it makes more sense if you see the show.
#47re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:09pmMargaret Hamilton
#48re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:12pmVanessa Williams
#49re: Best Elphaba
Posted: 4/5/07 at 4:24pmNathan Lane
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