Michelle Federer's replacement?
Michelle Federer's replacement?
#0Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 7:52pmSorry about the Wicked question, but have they announced who will be replacing Michelle in a couple weeks? In my defense, I used the search feature and didn't find anything. Also, is she really going to be Julia Roberts' understudy?
#1re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 7:54pm
They haven't announced yet.
I'm pretty sure she is going to be Julia's understudy.
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#2re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 8:24pmnow there's a good project for her to have waited for! except people will be so so upset if they ever hear her name as going on in a performance.
FrancisGumm
Broadway Star Joined: 2/8/04
#3re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 8:37pmis there an actual date that she's leaving?
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#4re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 8:38pmthe 8th along with David, Shoshana and Rue (thank god)
#5re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 8:49pmA reliable source tells me that Cristy Candler (OBC Witch's Mother/ Nessa understudy who left last month) will return to the show January 10th and play Nessa through March, when Jenna Leigh Green (Nessa/ Elphaba understudy on Tour) will assume the role.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#6re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 8:51pm
NO
Jenna can't leave the tour! She needs to come back to Toronto on the tour, so i can hopefully catch her as Elphaba.
Akiva
#7re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 8:55pm
somethingwicked- that's interesting. I'm surprised they couldn't find someone completely fresh...or want to? Hmm. I saw Cristy in August and she was good, and Jenna's a great person and I hear she's very good in the role as well.
But still....WHY not somebody new?
--Like an odd exotic creature on display inside a zoo, hearing children asking questions makes me ask some questions too...--
#8re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 9:05pm
Supposedly they just really liked Jenna and wanted to get her, and since they couldn't get her till March...
All the replacements coming in aren't new. Eden replacing Shoshana, Derrick and Carol coming in fron the tour... "Wicked" is becoming like "Hairspray.." very into inter company promotion.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#9re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 9:14pm
OED,
I see where your coming from, but after thinking about it its not quite true. It's true that new people may not be coming to Broadway cast, but they have to replace the people on tour. I kind of like the fact that people in the company are given the chance to prove themselves and work their way up from the ensemble to a lead and from the tour or Chicago to Broadway, if they should so wish.
Akiva
#10re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 10:10pmI see your point there Akiva. Because this would be Jenna's Broadway debut, and that's really great for her. Yeah, she deserves it.
--Like an odd exotic creature on display inside a zoo, hearing children asking questions makes me ask some questions too...--
#11re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 10:17pmI hope Jenna does come to Broadway. She blew me away!
misto625
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/05
#12re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:31pmI think it's great that Cristy Candler is being given the chance to play Nessa for two months because she deserves it. I like the cross between companies in a way, makes it seem like the big family that it is.
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DamnYankees101
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#13re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:46pmRue's leaving on the 8th too? MY God it feels like yesterday that Kristin Chenoweth was leaving. Wicked peeps sure go fast.
elphie30
Understudy Joined: 2/5/05
#14re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:12amMichelle extend again i know someone who is at wicked almost every weekend and knows alot of the cast and she told me that michelle extened again
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Alone and loveless here, just the girl in the mirror
Just her and me, the Wicked Witch of the East
#15re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:23amElphie30, whoever told you is misinformed. She has not extended.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#16re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:38amYou know, if I lived in NY could get tickets when Julia is out and then I could see Michelle AND Paul Rudd, yay! Who wants to see Julia Roberts anyway?
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#17re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:28amI don't know about anyone else, but being Julia Roberts' standby would not be a fun job. When Roberts is out, it's going to be a huge ordeal.
#18re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:26amOH, and I wanted to say, people have asked me how I know Michelle isn't extending and who her replacement is: besides hearing both things from numerous reliable sources, in regards to the extention question, I asked Jen Waldman (in the ensemble) if Michelle was staying because her replacement hadn't been announced, and she said no, she's still leaving, they're just still trying to figure the Nessa situation out in regards to the replacement. I'm guessing this was a hint towards the fact that they wanted Jenna Leigh Green and were still trying to figure out what would happen in those three months between Michelle leaving and Jenna arriving.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#19re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 11:45am
so..uhh..wait..is it Jenna?? I hope not!! I need her to come back to Chicago!!
NY can not have all my awesome tour cast...grrrr lol
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#20re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:28pmYes, it's Jenna... sort of. Jenna's contract with the Tour doesn't expire until March 1st, and Michelle Federer is leaving January 8th, so from January 10th through March, Cristy Candler will play Nessa. Then, when Jenna's contract ends March 1st, she'll come to the Broadway company.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#21re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:38pm
NOOO you b****es!! lol...
Jenna should come here!!
oh well...enjoy her..she's amazing
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
WickedRentHead
Stand-by Joined: 2/1/05
#22re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 11:41pmI was actually really hoping that Jenna would be in the Tour still when it came to Boston but I would be SO SO happy if she got to play Nessa on Broadway. She has SO much talent and really deserves the role!
#23re: Michelle Federer's replacement?
Posted: 12/23/05 at 11:54pm
I'd be so happy if Cristy Candler did indeed take over...I saw her go on for Michelle a little over a year ago and thought she did a fantastic job. 
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