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#1

Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 3:37pm

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=46603&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=
Lindsay Lohan is apparently keen to tread the boards on Broadway and wants to star in the musical Wicked.

The flame-haired actress is said to want the part of green witch Elphaba in the show, which is currently playing to packed audiences in London's West End.

"Lindsay saw it when she was last in London and would love to play the role," an insider told the Daily Star.

"She thinks it is a great part and knows it would go down a storm in New York. Theatre bosses in the Big Apple are keen to get Lindsay signed up to a variety of stage projects.

"They're regularly inundated with her fans asking them to get her treading the boards. She would be a big draw on Broadway."

The show originally opened on Broadway in October 2003, with Idina Menzel starring as Elphaba, and was promptly nominated for 10 Tony Awards. Idina picked up the Best Actress in a Musical gong for her performance.



Please let this not be true
Q:What advice do you have for aspiring Broadway stars who are terminally shy? I love your work, because you seem so bold. How do you do it? A:"I think I take more chances on stage then I do in real life but you can't learn anything if you don't challenge yourself. And don't say "terminally". If you love to perform then you have no choice, just keep training and focus on the words or the music whenever you find yourself slipping back inside yourself. You're not doing anyone any favors if you withhold your talents from the world"- Idina Menzel
#2

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 3:41pm

Why would the producers want to stunt cast Lindsay Lohan (and pay her a hefty paycheck) if the show is already selling out nightly?
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
#3

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 3:42pm

She can barely show up when she's need on a movie set, yet she expects to do eight shows a week on Broadway? Yeah that makes sense.

Updated On: 4/25/07 at 03:42 PM

#5

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 3:43pm

Please let this not be true

Nothing in the Daily Star is ever true.
"I just want a story and a few good songs that will take me away. I just want to be entertained. I mean, isn't that the point?"
#6

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 3:45pm

I don't know if she could handle the vocals or not, but the fact remains that she's a good actress, despite her myriad personal problems. That being said, I agree that it would be a huge leap of faith to assume she'd be able to handle the rigors of eight shows a week right now.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#7

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 3:46pm

What Lindsay wants and what she gets are probably two different things. I'm skeptical about the article, but one would hope that there would be protest from SOMEWHERE on the totem pole.
#8

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:04pm

She so cant handle those vocals, the only role in that show she is suited for is Nessa, or maybe one of those "rat people" who have no lines, lol.
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#9

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:31pm

Lohan?

Oh God no.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller
#10

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:35pm

She'll blow herself out as either of the two leads, but I can see her working as Nessa, but I doubt she'd want to.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
#11

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:37pm

you gotta be kidding me! she'll ruin the show and all the little 9 year old girls will be going to see it....oh wait....they already are.
I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!
#12

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:40pm

Only with:

Justin Timberlake as Fiyero
Britney Spears as Glinda
Mel Gibson as Boq
Queen Latifah as Nessa (though I'd love to see her on B'way)
Will Ferrell as the Wizard
Rachel Dratch as Morrible (though I'd love to see on B'way too)
Alec Baldin as Dillamond
#13

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:13pm

Are you kidding me? Queen Latifah as Nessa? She's not the daintiest of actresses...I personally vote for my tried and true favorites:

Elphaba: Carol Channing
Glinda: Cher
Nessa: Dolly Parton
Morrible: Bea Arthur
Chistery: Betty White
Fiyero: Rue Mclanahan
"Isn't it strange that we spend most of our time learning to do what they put people in asylums for." - Jane Fonda on Acting
#14

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:19pm

will never happen..she's not insurable at the moment due to her shenanigans with recent film roles and no theatre producer would hire her for a minor show let alone a major one under those conditions.
-Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.
#15

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:22pm

"nothing can kill a show like too much Lindsay Lohan..."

Too too funny.

Sounds like the British press taking something mentioned in passing and running with it. "I'd love to play that part. Crap- where's my flask?"
#16

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:31pm

Kill me now. Please, really. If this happens, I will go into extreme withdrawal.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#17

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:34pm

Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan in WICKED would be genius. GENIUS.
#19

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:52pm

Linday should stick to "Chicago" like every other "can kinda sing, can kinda dance" actress if she wants to take on Broadway. I think the article took an off-handed comment by Lindsay and turned it into a fact. She loves Wicked and has seen it many times. If she even said in a light-hearted way, "I'd love to be able to play that part" they can twist it into that she was seriously interested.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#20

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:53pm

I would actually go back to see Wicked if this happened.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#21

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:04pm

There is no doubt Lindsay could get the part in the film WICKED-in a heartbeat. She would get it over most actresses. She's sound great on a soundtrack with her voice all fixed up. Jessica Simpson would probably be Glinda.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#22

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:07pm

Someone says that nothing in the Daily Star is true, and STILL people post "Oh, my God, nooooo!" I'll reiterate, not that it will do any good: Nothing in the Daily Star is true - think of it as the US Star.
#23

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:14pm

I would see Wicked 8 times a week if this was true - TOO funny.
#24

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:20pm

I think watching Lindsay attempt the final notes of Defying Gravity would be worth $125 easy. But what cracks me up is all the people on here dissing her would be at the stage door wanting pictures with her or asking her to sign their copy of MEAN GIRLS.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#25

re: Lindsay eyes Wicked role?

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:24pm

Didn't you all just say recently that Raven was going to be Elphaba as well...?
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George

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