Idina's Replacement

[BrdwyThtr]

Idina's Replacement#0

Posted: 12/3/04 at 8:45pm

According 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]

re: Idina's Replacement#1

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?

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[Unknown User]

re: Idina's Replacement#2

Posted: 12/3/04 at 8:49pm

lol@matt

[musicalsFan]

re: Idina's Replacement#3

Posted: 12/3/04 at 8:50pm

That's Saycon Sengbloh.
I think she was in The Color Purple in Atlanta too.

[BEKA531]

re: Idina's Replacement#4

Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:09pm

BrdwyThtr, could you elaborate on your "inside sources"?

[LilElphaba]

re: Idina's Replacement#5

Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:27pm

I thought it would be Shoshana Bean. Anyone know what she's doin?

I LOVE SHOSHANA BEAN.

[luvWICKED416]

re: Idina's Replacement#6

Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:45pm

Shosh 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]

re: Idina's Replacement#7

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

'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero

[kim1061]

re: Idina's Replacement#8

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:22pm

so who is this Saycon Sengbloh? its so hush hush who they are "scrambling" to get...how do you know this?

A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it, but all she really dreams is to make someone else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer. And that is so beautiful-Anonymous

[Unknown User]

re: Idina's Replacement#9

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:23pm

i 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!

[edenespinosalover]

re: Idina's Replacement#10

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:40pm

Even 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]

re: Idina's Replacement#11

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:40pm

If they're thinking of ANYONE from Aida make it Heather Headly.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

[edenespinosalover]

re: Idina's Replacement#12

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:45pm

A black Elphaba. Hmmmmm....interesting. I think she'd be really good in that role though.

[Up In Won]

re: Idina's Replacement#13

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:53pm

All they have to do it alter the makeup a bit. Don't forget, THEY TURN HER FREEN.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

[BwayTheatre11]

re: Idina's Replacement#14

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:55pm

Wow...a lighting design nightmare. Dark skin with green makeup...

CCM '10!

[Musetta1957]

re: Idina's Replacement#15

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:10pm

"Don't forget, THEY TURN HER FREEN."

It ain't easy bein' freen...

[cvapb]

re: Idina's Replacement#16

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:12pm

Eden did say that she would like to go back to Wicked.

[pab]

re: Idina's Replacement#17

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:14pm

"How Freen Was My Valley"

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

[broadway_star_tomorrow]

re: Idina's Replacement#18

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:18pm

"Somewhere that's freen"

AKA Idina Pashmina

Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.

[timote316]

re: Idina's Replacement#19

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]

re: Idina's Replacement#20

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:47pm

I 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]

re: Idina's Replacement#21

Posted: 12/4/04 at 3:28am

I 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]

re: Idina's Replacement#22

Posted: 12/4/04 at 3:56am

the search can't be too extensive. idina's leaving in a month.

"Freen, freen dress"

AKA Idina Pashmina

Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.

[kim1061]

re: Idina's Replacement#23

Posted: 12/4/04 at 9:18am

dark 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.

A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it, but all she really dreams is to make someone else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer. And that is so beautiful-Anonymous

[ShbrtAlley44]

re: Idina's Replacement#24

Posted: 12/4/04 at 9:28am

Eden was, without a doubt, the best Elphaba I've seen. Her voice was fabulous - she won't have a problem singing that role.