Idina Menzel will be Elphaba in London's WICKED

This is exciting news, I'm so pleased! As soon as i first heard the CD i thought, i wish i could see her sing live, and now, London gets to have her, even if it's only for a short time. WOW!!! I'm sooooooooooooooooo excited. Still haven't bought a ticket yet though. Eek.

While I'm sure it must be exciting for Wicked fans in London to be able to see the original, Idina always says in interviews how she wants to be done with Wicked and move on. Then again, who would pass up a chance to live in London. I love that city. To death.

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personaly i really dont care i hate the dissapointment of singers who dont live up to the original cast members especially when they are so dam good! so its all good as far as im concerned!

a couple a months ago i did try to tell people that elphaba had been cast .My freind who was working on script revisions for the uk production told me ages ago that idina would return to that roll here in the uk but i wassnt allowed to say who then

idina was an amzing elpheba i for one cant wait to see her in london i have a pirate copy of wicked from broadway with her in on dvd and she is breathtaking and sounds 20 times better on stage than she does on that cast recording

that's really cool. Given the lack of talent demonstrated by the Elphabas following Idina, I probably wouldn't have made the trip to London to see the show (or I'd have done a Spamalot-Wicked combo ) but that's great news. I really don't see why it's a problem for theatre-goers... if they want an all-Brit cast, well, they'll just have to wait until 2007 and voilà!

I don't think her opening the show on a limited run means that she will be on the London cast recording, if they are to make one... might be but that's not sure.

I think it's a little weird that they waited so long to announce it though since the rumor has been floating for some time... maybe they were trying to get Chenoweth too... who knows?

in any case, that's great news. She's very talented and I hope she gets the sense of closure with the character that she didn't get on Broadway!

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sorry to put a dampner on things but i don't think idina is all that great live. her voice cracks like mad! especially during the big notes in "defying gravity". i do love her tho.

Bollacks? Whats that? DO you mean Bollocks?


ARGH if only messageboards had spellchecks.

I saw Idina in WICKED on B'way three times and her voice didn't crack, NOT EVEN ONCE. I thought her voice sounded even better live than on cd!