Saycon Sengbloh??

[steven22]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 10:07pm

will someone please tell me why she is not full time elphaba by now???...she is amazing...she was standby for a while and was never promoted to full time..not even on tour or chicago..but i think she could def handle it on broadway....anyone know why she isn't doing wicked anymore?

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 10:22pm

She's currently standing by for Celie and Nettie in "The Color Purple" (though she's only doing the show for six weeks until Montego Glover returns.)

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 10:34pm

I didn't know that! That's so exciting! I love Saycon. I hope she stays with the company of The Color Purple as a fulltime Nettie when Darlesia leaves. When does Saycon leave?

[D2]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 10:40pm

Who?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 10:42pm

amazing? at what?

[pants2]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 10:54pm

saycon was never promoted because while she does have an exceptional voice her acting was eh...

and she couldn't even handle doing all of her shows as a standby i don't think she's built for 8 shows a week.

[Kev]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:17pm

Interesting, as I never thought Saycon would bother returning to TCP. I commend her, though, for getting the work that she does; a pretty impressive resume for someone I always found to be bland to passable.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:23pm

very, very bland....

[rgaywrites]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:32am

She can sing quite well but her acting is tragically bad. It is hard to sit through her performances. She's very forced, at times over enthusiastic and she over elocutes a great deal of her dialogue. I'm always happy to see performers get work, but she could stand to invest in a few acting lessons.

[ShuQ]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:44am

She over elocutes? Really? Way to make up a word...

[rgaywrites]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:31am

ShuQ: I didn't make up a word.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

Elocute: To practise elocution; to declaim in an elocutionary manner.

Elocution: The art of public speaking so far as it regards delivery, pronunciation, tones, and gestures; manner or style of oral delivery.

Thusly, to over elocute is to speak, publicly, in an exaggerated manner.

Updated On: 6/28/07 at 01:31 AM

[jmponstage]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:03am

the only thing i've seen her do is mimi in rent a couple years ago. she was excellent in it - though a little pitchy at times. one of the best without you renditions i have heard though.