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

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

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

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.

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*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

So you can celebrate! :)

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Tell her I love her!

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

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

*persuades*

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

*persuades*

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

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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!

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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.

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.

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