Lilli Cooper in Wicked

[ElphabaGoodman]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#1

Posted: 2/12/13 at 5:13pm

For those of you who didn't know, Lilli Cooper (Spring Awakening) will be joining the 2nd National Tour of Wicked tonight (ensemble, u/s Elphaba). I'm actually kind of surprised that she's doing this, but she hasn't done anything on Broadway since Spring Awakening. I'm sure she'll make a great Elphaba. Isn't she quite young, though?

[Younger Brother]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#2

Posted: 2/12/13 at 5:23pm

On a somewhat unrelated note, am I right in thinking she is only the 4th Elphaba to play the role in the states of African American descent? (I can think of Saycon Sengbloh, Dan'Yelle Williamson, Brandi Massey and then Lilli)

[ElphabaGoodman]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#2

Posted: 2/12/13 at 5:24pm

Yes, that is correct. There's also Alexia Khadime, who did it in London.

[Visceral_Fella]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#3

Posted: 2/12/13 at 5:25pm

I was thinking the same thing. She is indeed. The first one in 5 years at that.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#4

Posted: 2/12/13 at 5:38pm

I find it surprising that she's covering Elphaba, I didn't know she was a high belter...she has a great voice though.

I'm not surprised this is the first thing she's done since Spring Awakening. She was 16/17 at the time so she's 22/23 now, I'm guessing she wanted to take time off to go to school and she will have graduated at this point.

[RippedMan]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#5

Posted: 2/13/13 at 10:19am

I love her voice. I cannot wait to hear her take on those songs.

What happened to Brandi Massey? She had one of the best "Defying Gravity" I have heard in awhile.

[Owen22]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#6

Posted: 2/13/13 at 10:31am

Wow. Lilli Cooper has an amazingly unique voice...not really an Elphaba voice, but I'm certainly intrigued. Enough to get my ass to a tour stop if I knew for sure she was on..

[AC126748]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#7

Posted: 2/13/13 at 12:13pm

I'm actually kind of surprised that she's doing this, but she hasn't done anything on Broadway since Spring Awakening. I'm sure she'll make a great Elphaba. Isn't she quite young, though?

She'll be 23 this year. She left Spring Awakening to attend college full-time, and graduated last year from Vassar. That's why she's been largely absent from the stage.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[GlindatheGood22]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#8

Posted: 2/13/13 at 2:13pm

Lilli! I remember way back when when there was the debate over Lea possibly doing Elphaba, and someone said Lilli was the only Spring Awakening cast member who could handle it vocally.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[Greatwhiteway3]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#9

Posted: 2/13/13 at 2:23pm

What the hell is a Dan'Yelle... Did they mean Danielle but not know how to spell it?

[steven22]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#10

Posted: 2/13/13 at 4:08pm

Saycon Sengblog was the standby on broadway for years and she had incredible vocals...wish she would come back full time

[DefyGravity777]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#11

Posted: 2/13/13 at 4:31pm

"What the hell is a Dan'Yelle... Did they mean Danielle but not know how to spell it?"

Her name is Dan'Yelle. There are different spellings of it. Not really that hard to figure out.

Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!

[runaways]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#12

Posted: 2/17/13 at 6:34pm

I would love to hear her sing this score! I hope she gets the chance to go on once she's settled in.

[Visceral_Fella]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#13

Posted: 6/22/13 at 2:26pm

She's making her debut tonight.


Her Twitter Updated On: 6/22/13 at 02:26 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#14

Posted: 6/22/13 at 4:12pm

Direct link: https://twitter.com/LilliCooper/status/348470301736173568

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[Visceral_Fella]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#15

Posted: 6/22/13 at 5:05pm

Thank you, I'm not very twitter savy so I didn't know how to direct link. Now I see that opening expand in a new tab provides the direct link.

[Visceral_Fella]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#16

Posted: 6/22/13 at 9:07pm

Sorry to double post, there was a picture of Lilli in this weeks SIPS

This week's SIPs Updated On: 6/22/13 at 09:07 PM

[everythingtaboo]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#17

Posted: 6/23/13 at 12:59pm

Wow, she looks beautiful in green. (Not that she wasn't beautiful already.)

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

[DEClarke]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#18

Posted: 6/25/13 at 12:20pm

I would have loved to see her as Elphaba! I bet she was GREAT!

[ElphabaGoodman]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#19

Posted: 5/25/14 at 11:20pm

Lilli has joined the Melbourne, Australia company of Wicked as the new standby for Elphaba!

[theCucumberSandwich]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#20

Posted: 5/26/14 at 12:16am

That is correct. She's temporarily joined the Australian production as Elphaba standby. She'll be performing two shows a week for the next little while.

[RW3]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#21

Posted: 5/26/14 at 12:40am

So basically until Ali Calder recovers from her collarbone injury

[theCucumberSandwich]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#22

Posted: 5/26/14 at 12:40am

Indeed.

[ElphabaGoodman]

Lilli Cooper in Wicked#23

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:47pm

Lilli will be joining the Broadway cast of Wicked as the Elphaba standby soon.