#1
Posted: 1/9/05 at 12:27am
I just spoke to Shoshana about three minutes ago. Unfortunately, Saturday's matinee was Idina's last show. She's leaving (or was supposed to be) tuesday to start filming for 'Rent'.
To squash all of the rumors as to what went down:
During the melting scene, there's a trap door, and once the trap door opens, Idina steps onto an elevator platform, a cue is called, and the elevator lowers her beneath the stage. Tonight, the trap opened and she stepped on a platform that hadn't arrived. So she was falling and caught her self with her chest and cracked a rib. Just one rib, no broken collar bone as previously reported.
It remains to be seen wether this was a technical snafu, human error or what, and it's not clear if her she will be able to sue (upon signing of the original contract she may have indemnified the producers and the Gershwin from any harm she may endure during the run of the show-and I'm sure the whole thing will be reported to Equity first thing tommorrow morning). Thus far it looks like she'll be fine, but Saturday night officially marked Shoshana's run as Elphabean, and there will be no later 'closing night' for Idina. I hope this was of some help.
To squash all of the rumors as to what went down:
During the melting scene, there's a trap door, and once the trap door opens, Idina steps onto an elevator platform, a cue is called, and the elevator lowers her beneath the stage. Tonight, the trap opened and she stepped on a platform that hadn't arrived. So she was falling and caught her self with her chest and cracked a rib. Just one rib, no broken collar bone as previously reported.
It remains to be seen wether this was a technical snafu, human error or what, and it's not clear if her she will be able to sue (upon signing of the original contract she may have indemnified the producers and the Gershwin from any harm she may endure during the run of the show-and I'm sure the whole thing will be reported to Equity first thing tommorrow morning). Thus far it looks like she'll be fine, but Saturday night officially marked Shoshana's run as Elphabean, and there will be no later 'closing night' for Idina. I hope this was of some help.
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