Idina's Replacement
Idina's Replacement
#0Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 8:45pmAccording to some inside sources that I have, Eden Espinosa has been offered the role of Elphaba, they're just trying to get her out of her Brooklyn contract. If she can't do it, then a black girl from Aida, Saycon something, will get the role.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#1re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 8:48pm
Well, they need to get Eden out of BKLYN by whatever means necessary. My ears are still bleeding and I saw it over a month ago. I still wake up screaming some nights because I dream I'm back in that theatre being subjected to that screaming. Those screams, I...I just can't get them out of my head. As if someone was being tortured. My God, will I ever be able to forget?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
musicalsFan
Broadway Star Joined: 3/3/04
#3re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 8:50pm
That's Saycon Sengbloh.
I think she was in The Color Purple in Atlanta too.
BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#4re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:09pmBrdwyThtr, could you elaborate on your "inside sources"?
LilElphaba
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#5re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:27pmI thought it would be Shoshana Bean. Anyone know what she's doin?
luvWICKED416
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/04
#6re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:45pmShosh is leaving in the Spring to work on her CD.... and EDen is contracted through Oct... and i have NO idea who this other girl is
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#7re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:46pm
Saycon? I loved her in Aida but she had problems hitting the high notes in The Dance Of The Robes then, how could she possibly cope with Defying Gravity?
And I have to agree with Matt... Although I never saw Eden as Elphaba but judging by her performance in Brooklyn just the thought of her screeching through the songs gives me the chills.
QM
#8re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:22pmso who is this Saycon Sengbloh? its so hush hush who they are "scrambling" to get...how do you know this?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:23pmi saw eden as elphaba, and let me say that she gave one hell of a performance. Should she do the gig, she'd be terrific!
#10re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:40pmEven though I am EdenEspinosaLover, I would really really like her to leave BKLYN because I've heard her in "Wicked" and I like her a lot more in that. And everyone's saying how bad BKLYN is and everything. I'm not bashing BKLYN in anyway when I say this, but I think Eden deserves to be in a sucessful show that will show off how amazing she is. I love her.
Up In Won
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
#11re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:40pmIf they're thinking of ANYONE from Aida make it Heather Headly.
#12re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:45pmA black Elphaba. Hmmmmm....interesting. I think she'd be really good in that role though.
Up In Won
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
#13re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:53pmAll they have to do it alter the makeup a bit. Don't forget, THEY TURN HER FREEN.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#14re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:55pmWow...a lighting design nightmare. Dark skin with green makeup...
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#15re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:10pm
"Don't forget, THEY TURN HER FREEN."
It ain't easy bein' freen...
#16re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:12pmEden did say that she would like to go back to Wicked.
#17re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:14pm"How Freen Was My Valley"
broadway_star_tomorrow
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/04
#18re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:18pm"Somewhere that's freen"
Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#19re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:34pm
If I could think of a witty freen thing, I'd post it, but its too late to be creative for me lol
I wouldn't mind Eden. Don't know how they'll get her out of Brooklyn, tho...
Beanmatt
Chorus Member Joined: 5/16/03
#20re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:47pmI saw Saycon as Mimi in the RENT tour about five years ago now, and other than a few diction problems here and there ("I had it when I walked in the doooo/It was pyoooo/Is it on the floooo?"), she was in fine form. I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember that she was unknown before, then picked out of a RENT casting call.
jarred03
Leading Actor Joined: 10/17/04
#21re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/4/04 at 3:28amI saw Eden Espinosa as Nessa in Wicked and thought she was great, but from what I hear her voice doesn't stay consistant in Brooklyn. If that's true then she definitly couldn't be Elphaba with Wizard And I and Defying Gravity. I think Tamyra Gray from American Idol who is now doing Bombay Dreams would make an awesome Elphaba. But truthfully I think they should hold a very extensive search because who ever takes over that role could make or break the future of that show.
broadway_star_tomorrow
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/04
#22re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/4/04 at 3:56am
the search can't be too extensive. idina's leaving in a month.
"Freen, freen dress"
Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
#23re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/4/04 at 9:18amdark skin with green makeup...i find nothing wrong with that. i think i heard somewhere that it would actually be easier..i cant remember where though.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#24re: Idina's Replacement
Posted: 12/4/04 at 9:28amEden was, without a doubt, the best Elphaba I've seen. Her voice was fabulous - she won't have a problem singing that role.
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