Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked

[BroadwayBound115]

Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#1

Posted: 10/11/09 at 3:38pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW_EXCLUSIVE_Stephanie_J_Block_Was_Lined_Up_For_UK_WICKED_20091011

This is crazy!

[bway1261]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#2

Posted: 10/11/09 at 3:45pm

Wow! That is pretty crazy. I wonder what they all came down with.

[TheatreFan4]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#2

Posted: 10/11/09 at 7:30pm

So Stephanie was going to (temporally) replace the UK Elphaba then didn't.

I don't see a story. That's like when Halle Berry decided she was going to kill herself but then didn't.

[HollyGolightly2]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#3

Posted: 10/11/09 at 7:32pm

Wow, how often do the principal, standby, and understudy ALL get sick?

[blaxx]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#4

Posted: 10/11/09 at 7:34pm

I agree. This is the most random news I've read.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[BwayBoundJoe]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#5

Posted: 10/11/09 at 8:02pm

Was it just the people who play elphaba? Sounds like sabotage from some crazed london fangirl who wants to be painted green and belt her tits off in a cherry picker to me...or h1n1.

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[BroadwayBound115]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#6

Posted: 10/11/09 at 9:12pm

The stint was gonna be for 2 weeks? Is that a joke?

[FindingNamo]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#7

Posted: 10/11/09 at 9:18pm

Don't you love how Americans are quoted using Britishisms by Brit writers? Stephanie Block literally said the producers "rang"? Do phones even ring anymore? Did the other Elphabii wind up in hospital?

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[craziness]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#8

Posted: 10/12/09 at 12:00am

Interesting. Similar thing happened earlier this year and Carmen Cusack was brought to Australia to help out the Melbourne production for a month. Due to the lead being out on extended leave and the understudy leaving the company, Carmen was on while the new understudy was learning the track.
Updated On: 10/12/09 at 12:00 AM

[blaxx]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#9

Posted: 10/12/09 at 12:02am

Yup, that's funnily enough.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[ThankstoPhantom]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#10

Posted: 10/12/09 at 12:03am

I guess when a show makes that much money, they can afford to cast an international actor on a whim.

How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...

[emilyfaye48]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#11

Posted: 10/12/09 at 1:03am

that is bananas

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[CONAries]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#12

Posted: 10/12/09 at 4:04am

It's because both Alexia Khadime (London's Elphaba) and Ashley Grey (Stand-by) are very ill at the moment, and they need a replacement for the next two weeks, and it just so happened that at the weekend SJB was flying over to London for Scott Alan's concert, so the producers asked her, I believe they have now gone with Shona White who was the stand by back in 2007 when Kerry Ellis went full time!

[blaxx]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#13

Posted: 10/12/09 at 4:08am

That's good information! Too bad the press release didn't say all of that.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[CONAries]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#14

Posted: 10/12/09 at 4:19am

I think its a shame some people didn't understand from the press release, I was just putting it in simpler English for them!

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#15

Posted: 10/12/09 at 1:00pm

I got that, although I was wondering if it was Shona or not, I'm surprised they didn't ask Kerry- mainly because I would love to see the fan girls go crazy, but, I'm happy for Shona. But, were any performances canceled? I imagine from reading the article that there was at least one day where there was no one to play the role.

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[adamgreer]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#16

Posted: 10/12/09 at 1:34pm

Talk about much ado about nothing. Did this REALLY require a news article?

[B3TA07]

re: Stephanie J. Block was lined up for UK Wicked#17

Posted: 10/12/09 at 1:37pm

Who cares?

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