Julia Murney as Elphaba -- so not your normal Wicked thread.- Page 6

[lfae]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 5:21am

CanadianSnowbird - is it definite that she will be leaving before Toronto? And all this talk of her going to broadway when Eden leaves, is there any truth in that or is it all wishful thinking? Because I reallllly want to see her and my only hope is if she's doing the role *somewhere* next Jan or Feb...sigh

[matiboi]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 8:46am

I could TOTALLY be wrong, but I know from someone who works very closely with the Broadway production that it may very well NOT be Murney replacing Eden . . .

[scottcain]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 9:21am

Here is a link to a review (by me for Talkin' Broadway) of JULIA in Wicked in Cincinnati.


Julia Murney in WICKED Tour in Cincinnati

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 9:23am

Her going to Broadway is not official by any means (although most of us are assuming it will happen.)

HOWEVER, her only doing the show six months is indeed fact. If you listen to her interview on Jim Caruso's Cast Party, she states two or three times that her run is very much a limited engagement, and that she will only be with the show for six months.

In the same interview, she says all the cities people can see her in, and the last one she names is Costa Mesa (August 9th- 20th,) so I assume that will be her last stop.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 9:42am

OH MY GOD SHE LOOKS SO PRETTY.

I will honestly squeal aloud if she comes to Broadway. And go live at the Gershwin. After saying I wouldn't see WIcked again.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 9:47am

I better be able to get tickets for the Cleveland run!

[Amber_C2003]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 9:50am

*hates everyone who gets to see Julia*

She does look gorgeous. I think she looks a little bit like Margaret Hamilton in the latest picture

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 9:59am

Hmmm, was checking out the onsale date for Cleveland [4/28] and saw that they will be having a performance Monday, July 3, and no performance Tuesday, July 4...wonder why.

Updated On: 3/10/06 at 09:59 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:00am

So you can celebrate! :)

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:02am

Oh right...

Maybe I can watch fireworks with Julia!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:03am

Tell her I love her!

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:09am

Are you going to atleast try the lotto in Cincy?

http://www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=99&tabid=36&Story_ID=6078

Updated On: 3/10/06 at 10:09 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:16am

I want to. My mother doesn't. I shall use my powers of persuasion.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:18am

Well you tell mom...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:20am

Well, we ARE gonna be there anyway. She likes Wicked.

*persuades*

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:22am

Screw Wicked...it is JULIA.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:26am

My mom doesn't like Julia, so she doesn't really care.

*persuades*

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:27am

Just "saw" Julia's DG from her second performance. Indeed.... amazing.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:27am

Screw Julia...it's WICKED! Haha. Tell her Julia played a performance, didn't like it, and left.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:30am

hee.

Yeah. My mom saw Lennon with me and was (a) too smitten with Will to care about the rest of them and (b) not impressed with Julia wailing on whatever note that was. She's silly.

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:43am

Julia was AMAZING!!!!! I can't think of anything else to say about her, but that she was brilliant and perfect! It was only her second performance (I saw the Thurs. matinee) and she already owns the role. I really wanna see her again in a month or so to see how much she grows. She looked beautiful green, and blew the roof off the very large P&G Hall, like I knew she would.

Alma Cuervo, the new Morrible, was devilishly good. She had two mess ups. When she came in to give Galinda her wand, she called out to her, "Miss Elphaba!" Oops. Also, during her speech in the middle of Defying Gravity, she dropped the line about Elphie being responsible for the mutilation of the monkeys and just repeated "She is evil!"

PJ Benjamin, the new Wizard, was his same bland uninteresting self as when he played Amos in CHICAGO on Broadway all those years.

Kendra was a yawn. I've read on these boards that she doesn't normally do matinees, so I don't know if she was being forced to be there for consistency for the new cast members or what, but she definately phoned this one in. She sped through her lines and raced her way through the Popular scene.

Sebastian was HOT! He had some great moments, but at other times was kinda "beige." And when he swung in on the rope to save Elphaba was weak!

Well, this is what I remember. I'm hoping to do lotto before the show leaves, I was way up in the third balc and am glad I got to see the "whole picture," but now I wanna see faces!

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:50am

Why doesn't Kendra do matinees? Too much?

[timote316]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 10:59am

She not contracted to do them. Since she's not a soprano, singing a soprano's part, she's only contracted to 6 for vocal rest.

[newsieboy23]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 11:17am

I thought she WAS doing matinees these days?

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 11:29am

According to her, she does them on a case to case basis. Most of the time she will do them, but if she isn't feeling well or she feels strained or just tired, she wants it known that she is not obligated to do them.

I saw the show four times here in Ft Lauderdale (once being a matinee,) and she was in all four times. I know that over the course of the two week run she missed three shows, two of which were evening performances and one a matinee. So there really is no way of telling when she'll be out.