Poll: Will you go see Lea Michele in Wicked? — Page 4

Well, I've told people to go fall in a well and they've actually left.

Actually, it was Maureen not Mimi. There's nothing wrong with her saying some of her dream roles.
Interview where she said.

If she were to do it in a couple of years, then possibly. I'm not a big Wicked fan, but I would be curious to see her performance.

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I don't think she comes off as pretentious at all. Methinks Lizzy is a bit bitter.

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oh boy......

just

stop

now

Yes, because saying she'd love to play Elphaba and Eponine is being a diva. Please.


I want to play Tobias and Henrik. Does that make me pretentious?

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"I'm with you evadiva, let's just stop this now."


Honey, I'm sorry. That was for you.

Your hatred for Lea is over the top.

Updated On: 7/7/07 at 11:06 PM

"Like, in one of her blogs when she said she was going to be out of SA for a short while, she said "don't miss me too much"."

Wow, I say that sometimes. Does that make me a diva too?

Sorry Lizzy

"OBVIOUSLY this girl has a belt. We just haven't heard it yet (at least not in Spring or when she was a child). If she couldn't belt, she wouldn't have been cast as Eponine."


Not every actress who has played Eponine uses their chest voice in the role. It has become expected, but it's not necessary.

I will answer the question at hand now, so I do not get yelled at for prattling on. Yes, out of curiousity, I will go see Lea Michele in Wicked, if she is ever cast in it. I was lucky enough to see Spring Awakening and Wicked in the same weekend and loved both shows. But Lea Michele does have a very pure voice, and I am not sure how well that would fit Elphaba. Overall, she is much too young. Though she is talented, someone at her age, twenty, in Wicked would make it seem less of the Broadway spectacle that it is and more of a high school play that overuses special effects. In a few years, when she is in her late twenties or so, once her voice matures a little more and she has more experience and, honestly, when she does not look so young, she will be able to tackle Wicked.

Updated On: 7/10/07 at 03:37 AM

Lea Michele would not look too young as Elphaba at nineteen, but you have got to consider the second act of Wicked, as Elphaba is obviously much older then. Also, if they cast Lea Michele as Elphaba now, a much younger Glinda would have to be found, as it would look awkward if one was obviously much older than the other.

Updated On: 7/10/07 at 02:41 PM

At least according to the book, less than five years pass between what is adapted to be act one and act two. If they are in high school in act one and it's 5 years later in act two, maybe Lisa Brescia was averaging it out to be 19. Either way, I think it's kind of like Phantom... I've seen pictures of Christines who easily look to be in their late 30s, and they are playing a 17 year old. Then when you get younger casting, it's kind of a shock to remember that part is supposed to be just a girl.

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I think it's funny how on her Myspace, Lea lists Idina as an influence and who she sounds like. And in that Playbill interview, I loved how she said her dream roles were Maureen and Elphaba.

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