Jeffrey Kuhn to Take on the Role of Boq in Wicked

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 10:52pm

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=502804

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Assassins star Jeffrey Kuhn will be the next Boq in Wicked. He is replacing Christopher Fitzgerald, who is departing on January 9 with Idina Menzel and Joey McIntyre.
"I am so excited to do something that is so entirely different from Assassins," Kuhn told Broadway.com. "I just recently saw the show and enjoyed it very much. We should all be so lucky as to be in something that is so revered and loved by people."

Kuhn is currently appearing in A.R. Gurney's The Fourth Wall at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. He is best know for playing Giuseppe Zangara, the man who tried to assassinate President Franklin D. Roosevelt and died in the electric chair, in last season's Broadway mounting of Assassins, which was directed by Wicked helmer Joe Mantello. He also appeared on the Great White Way in Ragtime. His other theater credits in the U.S. include Dirty Blonde, Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Bible (Abridged) and Lady in the Dark. A native of Canada, he has done most of his work there. His credits in his homeland include The Lion King, The Who's Tommy, Nothing Sacred, Love's Labour's Lost, Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens, The Illusion and Treasure Island.
"I'm a huge Mantello fan," Kuhn added. "I would walk across broken glass for Joe Mantello. He kept offering to buy me a ticket to go see [Wicked], but he gave me a job instead."

Wicked will continue to star Jennifer Laura Thompson, George Hearn, Carole Shelley and Michelle Federer. Replacements for Menzel and McIntyre have not yet been announced.

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 10:55pm

Good choice as a replacement...he is small and munchkin like.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 10:59pm

I honestly have no idea what to think.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:02pm

I'm with you Governor!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:02pm

Dammit, so much for my Andy Meeks 4 Boq 2005 campaign!

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:26pm

and this is news because?


Did we really run out of more important discussion topics like "How many times does Idina chew her food?"

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:35pm

waa now Ill never be able to see Chris play..I heart him waaaa

[broadwaybound3]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:40pm

i know hes adorable ( in a munchkin sense...) i love him... i shall miss chris

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:50pm

mlah im in love with him lol, i know someone who got hugged by him, hes sent me a letter before..haha its framed bwahahaha

but hes married gosh darn it