Does anyone think that...

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 8:49pm

Kerry Ellis will be on Broadway again in other shows? I know after her WICKED Broadway run she is sheduled to do another 6 months in London, but after that does anyone think she will be back on Broadway again?

It's not un-heard of... Carmen Cusack, Gavin Lee, Miriam Margolyes are all English.


Not to mention Kerry actually sounds extremely American..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LpTXei6NYe0
thats the link to her final Defying Gravity from her first run in London, how American does she sound?

[outdamnwench]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 8:50pm

A lot of times, accents disappear when singing, there's no real "american" sound.

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 8:53pm

That is partially true but you do not hear the English accent...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D-xkFYVBGx0
thats the link to Alexia Khadime's first Defying Gravity in England.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=GxuCu94K3tQ
thats a link to Shona White Defying Gravity in England


You hear English accents in those, where in Kerry's you don't.

Updated On: 6/12/08 at 08:53 PM

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 8:59pm

This thread is proof that the average person only uses 15% of their brain.

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 8:59pm

excuse me?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 9:02pm

I know this may come as a shocker, but countless amounts of British, Irish, Scottish and yes, even Australian actors have played Americans and vice-versa.

Remember, Vivien Leigh... a British actress played Southern Scarlett O'Hara in the film GONE WITH THE WIND and New Orleans' Blanche Du Bois in the film A STREETCAR NAME DESIRE.

Oh, and Texan Renee Zellweger played British in both BRIDGET'S DIARY films.

Also, the musical CHICAGO is performed in London with American accents (um, like the plot takes place in Chicago, Illinois!).

Ashley Brown, an American accent plays British MARY POPPINS!

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 9:04pm

Ok, I'm very much aware of that... but Wicked takes place in OZ, there is no accent for OZ. So, you hear the actresses accent, which in this case doesn't sound English.


I'm just simply wondering if people think she will be on Broadway again.

[winston89]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 9:17pm

I don't know. As for Wicked once she is done doing the role on Broadway she is going to London to do the role again in the west end.

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 9:26pm

I know, I wrote that before, I'm saying after that.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 9:54pm

wow.

[into_the_woods2]

Posted: 6/12/08 at 10:06pm

i love kerry and think she should DEFINITELY do more broadway shows

[Weez]

Posted: 6/13/08 at 5:02am

Ok, I'm very much aware of that... but Wicked takes place in OZ, there is no accent for OZ. So, you hear the actresses accent, which in this case doesn't sound English.

Not really, otherwise we'd have had an Australian Glinda in the West End at first. But as it was a production in England, Helen Dallimore performed with an English accent. Come to that, we'd probably have had an Australian Fiyero too, if people were performing with their native accents. But they weren't. (Apart from Idina kepping her American accent, and I rather enjoyed the Scottish Boq.)

[threatXthree]

Posted: 6/13/08 at 5:08am

Carmen Cusack is an American born actress who found success in London.