For the Wicked/Idina lovers AND haters...

My friend went to the show last Tuesday...and at the show two amusing things happened. 1) The mics went out for both Idina and JLT after one of their hugs (something got ripped out) and they had to rush off stage momentarily and 2) Idina nearly tripped and ate it when she came out during curtain call. She laughed it off gracefully!

I figured this is the perfect post for the Wicked lovers, who would think the little anecdotes were cute, and for the Wicked haters, who would grin slyly at the thought of Idina almost falling on her face.

Enjoy!

In my most recent viewing of the show, the flying mechanism malfunctioned during "Defying Gravity" and Shoshana Bean sank back down to the stage as she was singing "...never gonna bring me down...". It *might* have been one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

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"And Nobody in all of oz no Wizard that there is or was is ever gonna bring me down"

She floats down

lol it sounds like something that would happen on a Forbidden Broadway type thing.

"and for the Wicked haters, who would grin slyly at the thought of Idina almost falling on her face."

aw that's actually really mean lol


oh and are those little bead-looking things coming from their heads microphones too?.....

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"lol it sounds like something that would happen on a Forbidden Broadway type thing."

It was HYSTERICALLY funny.

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hahahaha thats so funny!
and Shoshana went down hah! if that were me i wouldve said something like..jee i guess they can bring me down.
i hope to see some bloopers

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How come there are so many bloopers for one show? Is it that this is one of the most frequently viewed shows by posters on this board or it has now become a gimick that audiences are expecting when they see it so the give it to them?

The thing with Shoshana coming down during Defying Gravity is actually quite funny and ironic.

With the mics going out I am reminded when I saw Aida back in April. Lisa Brescia's mic went out during A Step to Far in the top of act 2. She sang her part without it, then when the light was off her she calmly walked off stage and got a hand-held mic. I do have to say though, despite her professionalism, none of the audience heard her singing without the body mic. I was in the first row still couldn't hear her. I always thought her voice was so powerful, but was that all just with the help of technology? My reason for brining this up is based on what Rath said. Ziemba was able to sing so the entire audience could hear without hte help of body mics and over the orchestrations? Impressive.

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Updated On: 12/27/04 at 06:08 PM

"oh and are those little bead-looking things coming from their heads microphones too?..... "

Yes.

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I didn't know if I should have given Lisa with the benefit of the doubt because I was two feet away from the orchestra with speakers right infront of me, but she was just as close and I barely heard anything.

"It happens quite regularly that mics cut out and no matter how powerful the voice of a performer is you can hardly hear them past the first two rows anymore."

QM, is it because that the orchestrations are getting so loud or that finding someone with that talent is getting hard and harder (or thier lack of trying to find people with that talent).

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"If the voice is truly powerful and the technique is correct, the performer can indeed be heard. "

I understand what Rathnait is saying and I think sometimes Idina sounds like she is just shouting...but how am I to know what shes doing in her diaphragm? On the other hand,one must consider it's probably near impossible to fill the Gerswhin, which is practically a barn and the largest house on Broadway...not to mention it's filled with squealing teeny boppers.

No, I did not see the performance. But the stage manager's report is just that - a report. It reports on what happened at the performance. If that report states that her mic went out, yet she continued and was heard to the back of the house, then that is exactly what happened.

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OK, you have a very strong opinion on this incident although you were not present. Never mind.

As I have said, I have yet to see the performer who can still be heard without a mic, competing against a full orchestra full of mics.

If Karen can indeed do it (which I continue to doubt) I will kill to get a ticket for her future project.

QM

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'I don't know why you have so much trouble believing something so simple.'

Erm, because I have seen it hundreds of times happening to other performers. And just because someone who I don't know insists on something I haven't witnessed myself (or herself for that matter, as she has only read about it) will not make me believe otherwise.
And... I don't know why you have so much trouble understanding something so simple.

QM

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