Norbert LEo Butz

oh this is gonna get lots of attention...
Fiyero is quite possibly the most under developed characters I've seen. Norbert is a great talent as we can see from "the last 5 years" and I'm sure he's done all he could with the paper-thin role of Fiyero.
Yes, I am a Wicked fan, but I'm not oblivious to the major holes and weaknesses of the plot and score. Many underdeveloped characters, irrelevant songs, and weak songs all together show examples of the creative difficulties of this show. I loved the overall message, and a few of the songs I really loved. Though I do really like this show, its impossible to deny its weaknesses and creative difficulties.

anybody here?

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Good god girl, you really need to learn how to address topics better.

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Norbert is great, but it is a shame that, as aspringuy said, his character in WICKED is so under developed. He's better off moving into a show of his own.

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love norbert especially in last 5 years! but i read that he was in rent as rodger, for some reason i just don't see it.

Updated On: 6/26/04 at 07:48 PM

He was an amazing Roger!!

He's sexy as all get-go, but his name can only make us all giggle, right?

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hehe. Butz.

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Yes, broadwaystar, but Fiyero's character in the novel is VERY different, in more ways than just race. In the musical, Fiyero hasn't got much to him. In the musical, he's pretty shallow, but in the book he has a lot more depth, but that causes him to get caught up in all of that political turmoil. Every time people ask about the book, I say that it has a lot of darker, deeper elements that probably wouldn't bode well for a musical these days. I think it's like that. When I saw the show, I had just finished the book, and I felt like making Fiyero more shallow was all part of converting a very complicated book into a more happy mousical. Also, in the book, the fact that he comes from a different place than Elphaba is really important to the story, because (I'm going to try not to be too specific for those who haven't read the book) she has to go there to find Fiyero's family.

Anyway, there's my two cents on Fiyero. Do what you want with it.

But here's the really important part... Emcee's two cents on Norbert!! I actually have never seen him live. When I saw Wicked, he was out with a back injury.
But he's damn sexy, and I love his voice. I just bought the L5Y CD, and I love it.

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Norbert Leo Butz. What can I say? He's talented, but Fiyero is a little, well, might I saw it...empty. It's not really that hard to play the role of an empty headed person who changes to a deep and caring amazingly intelligent person.

In the book Fiyero was blue, not black if I remember right. He had blue jewels or markings on his face and they couldn't do that on stage because it didn't look right to the people in the audience who were far back. They tried.

I saw Norbert in Cabaret in Los Angeles with Teri Hatcher.
He is extremely talented and unfortunately wasted in Wicked.
Hey, maybe I should have gone to Wicked wasted?

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