Did anyone see Kerry tonight? — Page 5

"i read somewhere that annaleigh will be replacing kendra as glinda when kendra leaves again."

god no...this can't be true!

I actually hope Annaleigh comes back. She had great attendance, had the best Popular I've ever seen and is just so damn cute.

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why cant we just have a new Elphaba and Glinda...we havent had a new elphaba since Eden (and she wasnt really "new" cuz she had temp. took over for the tour before hand) and we have only had ONE new Glinda since Megan and that was Annaleigh. I know they wanna give the part to someone who knows it well...but this is overdoing it.
Also...Shoshana Bean, Victoria Matlock and Kerry Ellis have gone up an octive on the last note in "I'm Not That Girl"

Wicked is the worst offender in terms of cast recycling on Broadway.

I hope Kendra leaves before November. I really don't want to see her.

I haven't seen her but, but I just really don't like the way she does things going by people's reviews. If I do see her it's not the end of the world but I would prefer someone else.

Annaleigh is staying with the Chicago production for awile, not leaving in August like Lisa. Annaleigh will be closing out the production with Dee (I assume). And she doesn't know what she is doing next. I hate the Wicked recycling too, but if it's someone I like as much as Annaleigh then I wouldn't mind that much, lol.

Ashford (talk about a thread drift, lol) was a lovely Margot, but a horrendous Glinda. Her Glinda, like many others, didn't have any arc to it- acts 1 and 2 were played exactly the same.

I didn't see the improvement at all. Most Glindas I have seen have matured between the events in the story line between acts one and acts two. I didn't think that I saw that with Ashford. With all this recycling casting I wouldn't be surprised at some point if they brought the actress playing Elphaba from the Japanese production over to do the role in English.

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Exactly sarla. Annaleigh was Glinda before she was Margot.

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Your right that that she did play Glinda a handful of times prior to doing Margot in Blonde. However, it isn't a good thing when there are many people who feel that the role she is doing in Wicked is the same as the role that she did in her last show that she was in. I feel that Glinda has a lot of layers to her and when played right can easily show that depth to the character. I can see and understand the perky blonde aspect of the character at least during the Shiz scenes. But, that is not a way I can see the character acting later on in the show. The two times I saw her as Glinda i felt that I saw the perky blonde from the top of act one to the end of act two. And, that I didn't see the transformation one should make when doing the role of Glinda.

I would like to think that Ashford is a good talented actress. But, between seeing her in Blonde (ok the MTV airing of it. But still) and seeing her twice in Wicked and seeing her at the stage door of Wicked those two times. I am not sure if I can say that. I can understand and see where people are coming from when they say that it is just her and she isn't doing the role a la Margot in Blonde. But, it just doesn't seem right for me when a particular actress is playing what is pretty much herself in two different roles. I just feel that she should be able to separate not only herself from Glinda or Margot. But, be able to separate herself between Glinda, Margot and how she is normally when not in character and just being herself. I don't see that seperation that is needed to be a good actor. I just see her not only playing the same character that she played in Blonde. I just felt like I was seeing not Glinda being played by Annaleigh Ashford. But, rather I felt like I was seeing Ashford play a caricature of herself and not play a character up on the stage of the Gershwin.

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I don't hang out with her. The only times I have seen her not in any character at all were at the stage door. But, I could ask the same question of you. I am sure you don't know Ashford on a personal level and just have known her based on her work. I could ask you do you know her well enough to say that she is just being herself. Unless you personally know her I don't think you do.

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