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#26

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 3:25pm

Dear Lord....

No one knows yet! Shoshana has like another 6 months left! Anyone who claims to know is full of bologna.

This topic seems to come up on a weekly basis.
#27

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 3:59pm

I agree. It really is unknown. No one knows for certain. And actually, Ana's contract is up in January. Kate Reinders revealed that in an interview with Playbill, I believe. Kate expressed interest in coming to Broadway and said that Wicked is like a giant family, kind of implying that there may be some tour or Chicago cast members movin' on up to the Gershwin. Whether it's an Elphaba or a Boq, who's to say? But I think it's going to be like Rent, with tour cast members moving to the Broadway cast...
#29

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 4:07pm

Didn't Steph have a great record during Boy From Oz? like she actually showed up!
#30

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 4:12pm

OMG, give Stephanie a break - she got injured AT WORK! The doctors and the producers OWE her time to heal and if that means sitting out a show or two a week then that's what she is REQUIRED TO DO, not what she WANTS to do. And she is now missing SF specifically so she can be back in full time. I think it's amazing she's performed as often as she did considering how injured she was.

K, I'm done now...carry on with your hypothesizing about the unknown. :)
#31

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 4:15pm

I've actually heard from a pretty reliable source that they're trying to bring Ethel Merman back from the dead to play Elphaba.

On a different note, Stephanie Block BETTER not go to Broadway just yet, because she's supposed to come down on tour to Ft. Lauderdale next February and I really want to get to see her perform.
#32

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 4:15pm

Then I stand corrected.
that's a really big mic...
#34

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 4:44pm

I know Mandy Gonzalez is in Lennon but she needs to be Elphaba.
Second choice would be Sutton Foster.
"Life will be frozen peaches and cream. Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC
#35

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 4:57pm

I would agree with Mandy Gonzalez as Elphaba, but that would all depend on the fate of Lennon.

Hopefully it's Eden.
http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
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
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
#36

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:08pm

thenardier - I can't really speak on her BFO absences except to say it's too bad they missed her. I'm really sorry. We're all human, but when she's on she's incredible.
#37

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:14pm

thread jack (although its a little on topip)-I really hope Saycon joins The Color Purple!
#38

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:30pm

Allow me to respectfully disagree with a comment above; tours are indeed often a tryout for Broadway. People get tried out on tours all the time.

Also, the idea that tours are less important or demanding is crazy; often the touring lead has to be just as good or better as the Broadway lead, because the audience isn't guaranteed to show up. No one would get the responsibility for opening a major production without being capable of giving a Broadway-caliber performance.

Finally, if a tour is produced by the same group who is producing the Broadway show, people can get moved around anytime. They don't have to wait until the contract is up to offer someone a role on Broadway.

Just wanted to clear those things up.
#39

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:37pm

I'm telling you, it's going to be Bo Bice. He does a mean Defying Gravity...

Seriously - I hope it's an amazingly taltented unknown that they find at the Boston audition.
#40

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 6:42pm

I'd love to see Eden back in NYC doing Wicked. I've read good reviews of her on tour in SF, and I saw a video of her singing at a promotional appearance and she was great. I'd like to see all the Elphabas so I so I can compare. I have seen Idina and she was fab. of course. Love to be (or have been...) a fly on the wall at the tryouts.

Bo Bice would be great too, he's got the hair.
VB: Mr. Wonka, my name is Violet Beauregard... WW: I don't care.

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 06:42 PM

#41

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 7:01pm

I Am The Next Elphaba - I just need everything raised up about 2 steps so a guy can belt a lot, and I refuse to fly.

Any problems...bring it up with non-equity :P
You learn to play the straight man, the lines become routine - never really saying what you mean - but i know the scene will change :)
#42

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 7:52pm

Yeah, I remember hearing about Stephanie missing her share of performances during The Boy from Oz. Meaning not all of her absenses in Wicked can be blamed on her injury. I'm sure she was hurt by the accident, but her attendance record wasn't exactly great before it anyway.

I'm at the point where I hope they find a new face to come in and play Elphaba.
#43

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 8:04pm

A new face would just add another name for us to argue about how she belts, how good she looks in green, whether she belongs on tour or on broadway, whether she squeaks or not, what other shows she could do, etc.
#44

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:08pm

"Like I stated before,
Shoshana Leaves, Anas contract is up at the end of January in Chicago so shes not going to go to Broadway untill Febuary, Idina Menzel is going to repise Elphaba untill than. "



Sure, mr. Producer...

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 09:08 PM

#45

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:13pm

I'm the next Elphaba.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#46

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:25pm

Get in line. Janet Reno's ahead of you.
#48

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:33pm

Popular, who's that girl in the leotard in your picture?
#49

re: The Next Elphaba

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:36pm

Wishful thinking- Caren Lyn Manuel

..after all, "Once around the sun" isn't everyone's favorite show...
awkward.

"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912

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