Jeremy Jordan was Up for Fiyero in the WICKED Movie!

[macbeth]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 2:26pm

Another plum role that got away was Fiyero in the “Wicked” movie. “I didn’t show up with what they wanted so I had to try to make last-minute adjustments and it was clearly not going well,” he said of the audition. “They were like, ‘Well, you sound great. Goodbye.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/theater/jeremy-jordan-floyd-collins.html

I'd have loved to see this! 

[witchoftheeast2]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 4:14pm

I was wondering a few days ago why he hasn't played Fiyero but I guess he prefers to originate roles rather than be a replacement?

[BwayLB]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 4:24pm

I wanted Jeremy too. But I’m fine with Jonathan Bailey

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 4:51pm

Glad Jonathan Bailey got it. I can watch that "Dancing Through Life" Library sequence all day long!

[Seb28]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 5:34pm

witchoftheeast2 said: "I was wondering a few days ago why he hasn't played Fiyero but I guess he prefers to originate roles rather than be a replacement?"

I think it's because Fiyero needs to be tall.

Updated On: 4/23/25 at 05:34 PM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 5:45pm

Totally. Just like how Norbert Leo Butz was super tall. 

 

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 6:12pm

To be real, they probably saw every 25-35 year old in Hollywood and New York who could sing, so almost everybody was up for Fiyero at some point.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 7:17pm

Sutton Ross said: "Totally. Just like how Norbert Leo Butz wassuper tall.

"

To be fair, the casting for the role following the original cast has gone in a very different direction. It's hard to imagine someone like a Norbert Leo Butz circa 2003 being cast in the role today.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 7:18pm

Seb28 said: "witchoftheeast2 said: "I was wondering a few days ago why he hasn't played Fiyero but I guess he prefers to originate roles rather than be a replacement?"

I think it's because Fiyero needs to be tall."

 

I doubt that. For example, Butz and Diggs are not tall men.

 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 7:25pm

Oh, I was just mocking Seb for being ignorant (once again) considering Jeremy and Jonathan are one inch apart. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 8:22pm

I think he would have been great as a stage inspired Fiyero, but he doesn’t fit the role’s reimagining as a joyously pansexual, super camp bon vivant. That choice powers the entire movie’s engine, since the are they or aren’t they of Elphaba and Glinda takes place in a world that is openly ale constantly sexually fluid. 

[bwaylvsong1]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 9:30pm

Kad said: "Sutton Ross said: "Totally. Just like how Norbert Leo Butz wassuper tall.

"

To be fair, the casting for the role following the original cast has gone in a very different direction. It's hard to imagine someone like a Norbert Leo Butz circa 2003 being cast in the role today."

This is exactly correct- there is literally a height minimum in the casting breakdown for the Broadway/tour production.  Norbert would be “typed out” and not even given the chance to audition for the role.

[rannells_renthead.11]

Posted: 4/23/25 at 10:22pm

I love Jeremy as much as the next guy but I really don't think he would be a fitting Fiyero. He's not quite the most skilled dancer and he doesn't really exude the whole flamboyant energy thing. However I still would like a video of him singing dancing through life or as long as you're mine to listen to on repeat please and thank you