You find it funny when someone finally gets the role they worked so hard for and then they get hurt and can't do the tour for awhile? Wow you must have had one screwed up childhood.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
The Time Dragon clock, wasn't necessarily JUST A CLOCK, what it did in the story it had a STAGE on it that showed things that has happened in the past, events that have occured in peoples lives good or bad. So what I assume is that the stage at the Gershwin is the clock in its entirerty on a bigger scale, because it does have all the parts the clock in the book did, but this is on a grander scale, If you look at the play it pretty much is Glinda telling the story of Elphaba and the play itself in a narrator role, so what I think it is that the story itself is playing itself out on the Time Dragon stage as Glinda is telling it, therefore thats the reason for the dragon above the stage etc.
Defying EDCT...great explanation! It has been a long time since I read the book, but I do remember the clock would move from town to town causing great contoversy as the puppets on the stage of the clock 'told stories'. Thankfully, the stories from the book are NOTHING like the story of the musical.
that is awesome! Theese stories make me laugh and it makes me happy becuase it shows that everyone makes mistakes and well it happens.
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
whoever the Galinda was though was not good. Had a wierd vibrato that did not suit me...ugh...performance was January 9th, 2005 (if i remember correctly...this was Idinas leaving date?) But for some off reason does not sound like JLT...who it should be right?
Well if its not JLT its probably Meg Hilty, but who knows. I think the most pleasant, flawless version of DG to listen to is Jenna Leigh Green's, but thats just me. The harmonies sound amazing and she hits every note dead on without any apparent struggle
Yay for SF! I am definitly going to stage door it when I see it up here! (via lotto, of course)
Does anybody know what exactly happened in the previous SF Wicked run regarding Cheno and a neck injury? I've heard rumors, but never the whole story! (and from what I've heard, it fits this thread...)
"If you can talk, you can sing...if you can walk, you can dance."
- T.K. Greene
Oh my GOd?! How did the show go on?! It's nothing without the bubble!!!!!!
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Yeah Jenna sounded phenomenal as Nessa so I can only imagine how she sounded as Elphaba. And Nessa is a role that's kind of hard to sound phenomenal in due to the choice of solos etc. I really do wish I could have seen her as Elphaba. On the one hand, I loved Stephanie and thought she was awsome but I really would love to see Jenna. She was very nice at the stagedoor though. :-P
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
When I saw Wicked in LA a few eeks ago, the platform for the book didn't come up until the 2nd round of Eleka Nahmen's. It was weird, cuz Steph was doing the words fine, and then the book appeared out of nowhere, and she started reading it to say the same thing.
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