The Elphaba Curse- Page 4
The Elphaba Curse
#75what actually happened
Posted: 4/18/05 at 3:55pmWow. There really is a curse...haha, told you!
"Love is stupid and it bleeds, it satisfies my needs, I think it's wonderful..." ~Bill Finn is God!
Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
#76what actually happened
Posted: 4/18/05 at 4:01pmok, I didnt want to start a new post because i knew people would get mad, but i just heard a clip of stephanie singing defying gravity and no good deed. she honestly sounds evil when singing these songs its creepy. did anyone that saw her notice that?
#77what actually happened
Posted: 4/18/05 at 4:01pm
"But maybe the real curse is that the crew isn't paying attention"
touche.
#78what actually happened
Posted: 4/18/05 at 4:04pmhaha, I agree...Bad Crews...or bad Set Designs...who knows...
"Love is stupid and it bleeds, it satisfies my needs, I think it's wonderful..." ~Bill Finn is God!
#79what actually happened
Posted: 4/18/05 at 4:08pm
You can't blame the set designs....The sets are fine...
Bad Crews!
She's hurt!
Another actress is hurt!
or whatever...
#80what actually happened
Posted: 4/18/05 at 4:21pmI'm not saying someone needs to be fired, but what the hell? Pay attention to the people on the traps, especially when you've had problems before.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
#81what actually happened
Posted: 4/18/05 at 4:33pm
Eden: She got cast in Brooklyn
Hehehe that made me laugh...
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
taperina
Understudy Joined: 11/11/03
#82what actually happened
Posted: 4/20/05 at 7:40pm
Derek,
I have seen Stephanie 3 times and she is fantastic. During NGD she does sound evil, but live she has an amazing quality on stage. She really develops her "wicked witch voice" in act 2 and it is in full swing by NGD (might explain the "evil creepiness" you are hearing). Have you heard her sing any other songs besides that one and DG? PM me if you want to...I can send you a couple. Overall though Stephanie is an amazing Elphaba. She's beautiful and puts so much into the part. I have tickets to see the last show before it leaves Toronto! Yay!
#83what actually happened
Posted: 4/20/05 at 10:57pmOk, so sure you can blame it on the "Elphaba Curse", or bad crew, or even bad set design that each actress playing Ephie got hurt somehow, but really, it's not that big of a deal. I mean come on, I'm sure you could note injuries from any old show. PEOPLE GET HURT,it happens, big whoop.
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LouieLovesTheater
Leading Actor Joined: 3/30/04
#84what actually happened
Posted: 4/21/05 at 1:39am
Sorry, I'm totally on Derek's side in this. I've heard Stephanie's full versions of NGD, Wizard and I, and Defying Gravity and I can't stand them. She sounds much the same as she did in Boy From Oz. I liked her in that show but that sound doesn't work for me in this. Here "It's meeeeeeeeeee" was painful to listen to. Her singing just sounds strained...
Who knows though, it's not to say she can't improve.
Derech2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/24/04
#85what actually happened
Posted: 4/21/05 at 1:45amPerhaps I should listen to Stephanie from another show before I make judgements, but I was somewhat dissapointed from the recordings I heard. Her lines did not sound at all natural and her voice seemed really ordinary. I really should catch the tour ...
Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#86what actually happened
Posted: 4/21/05 at 10:19am
lol. It's hard to be good when you pay money for a Broadway show and get community theatre acting.
Matt, please don't tell me you are paying FULL PRICE! Don't you know about discounts? Student Rush? (Even if you aren't a student you can get a fake ID. A friend of mine has a fake Florida State ID that he uses all the time. He is 56 and they never even look at him twice!)Lotteries? But there is NO reason at all that you should be paying FULL PRICE! That can be so expensive and I know you see a LOT of shows. It must be nice to have such deep pockets...or friends with deep pockets. Sorry you don't like Shoshana, but at least you were able to see WICKED! Lucky guy.
PEACE.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#87what actually happened
Posted: 4/21/05 at 4:15pmIs it just my imagination, or is there a trend developing to revere the younger Broadway divas as long as they belt loud and high, shrillness and pitch be damned? Just an observation, and in no way limited to the Elphaba actresses...
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
#88TOTALLY
Posted: 4/21/05 at 4:26pmI agree, and I hate this trend. I absolutely love Shoshana bean because her belt is place correctly and sounds beautiful, but eden espinosa....YUCK! it's annoying...so she can sing high, what's your point. haha, and I like Idina's voice, but it's very nasal and it sounds like she's hurting her throat everytime she sings above a C!
"Love is stupid and it bleeds, it satisfies my needs, I think it's wonderful..." ~Bill Finn is God!
#90TOTALLY
Posted: 4/21/05 at 6:03pmForgive my dryness, but... is it so much a curse as it is the fact that Elphaba has to use a trapdoor - period? Ok, almost every actress playing her gets hurt; every actress playing her has to use a trapdoor. Every businessman works with paper; every businessman gets a papercut at some point.
So let the party and the sounds rock on, I'm gonna shake it till the life has gone, gone, gone - rose tints my world and keeps me safe from my trouble and pain!
#91TOTALLY
Posted: 4/21/05 at 6:52pmI don't think the trapdoors are the problem. If the trapdoor works properly every day for 16 months, and it screws up once on what happens to be your 3rd to last performance, then it's a rare, but unfortunate accident. Yes, trapdoors aren't the safest thing in the world, but the hundreds of times that they've worked properly haven't gotten nearly as much attention as the 2 times they haven't.
Like a firework unexploded
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#92TOTALLY
Posted: 4/21/05 at 7:00pm
"Lock her in the prop closet for all I care."
GAH. I hate to thread-jack but I did that to our stage manager today! She was being so annoying so I just...told her there was something in the prop closet and leaned on the door so she couldn't get out...whoops. Twas funny though.
But yeah- I agree with orangeskittles on this Elphaba Curse thing.
A most ingenious paradox.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#94...
Posted: 4/21/05 at 8:46pm
No..because people can't suffocate and die in closets..or anything.
Can they? >________>
:checks on little brother:
Nope, still alive. d(^_^)b
note: I'm not a serial killer. I don't torture my little brother. I actually have a small place in my heart for the little....dude.
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Updated On: 4/21/05 at 08:46 PM
#95...
Posted: 6/24/05 at 9:47pmShe does not exit thorugh a trap door, she runs off during a blackout. she enters through one but not exits. she belts, the lights change, and u can see her run off bc i was in the frn row.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
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