And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
It's very doubtful that it'll make it in this season. There's been no word on it in many many months (the last press announcement about it on Playbill.com is from last February) -- no casting announcements, no design team has been lined up as far as I know, no pre-Broadway engagement has been secured and no theatre here has been booked. These things take time and with only five months left in the season, the producers of the Wiz are rapidly running out of it if they want to make this season's Tony deadline. 2005-2006 is much more likely at this point.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Regarding the casting, I'm hearing that Lilias White is being bandied about for the role of the wicked witch. I generally don't care for Lilias White. I didn't like her Effie (I thought she was too tough, too knowing, too mature for that character, and I don't care for her overuse of vocal malisma). I liked her more in THE LIFE, but didn't agree with all the hoopla. But she's really perfect for the Mabel King role in THE WIZ. She's got exactly the right quality for it.
If THE WIZ does come in next year, and WAS makes it to Broadway too, won't it be odd to have three musicals based on the same book playing at the same time? (Probably won't happen. But the possibility amuses me.)
Theres WICKED and THE WIZ...what would the 3rd show be baised on Oz?
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
WAS is the third show, Fosseboi. It's a long shot. There was talk of it coming in, but its out of town premiere wasn't very well reviewed, so I doubt it will happen.
