WICKED SISTER ACT?????

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:42pm

I have heard buzz (from what I believe to be a fairly reliable source) that the Callaway sisters are going to star in WICKED beginning next year!! Ann as Elphaba, and Liz as Galinda.

The best part of this rumor is that they will switch roles on Wednesday and Saturday matinees!!

Has anyone else heard this?

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:43pm

I have heard this, but is it only in the Chicago company?

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:44pm

Nope, can you post pictures of them? just wondering what they look like.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:44pm

I heard Broadway.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:44pm

Thank God we can finally talk about this. Liz e-mailed me about it three weeks ago...It's definitely happening. Rehearsals begin December 5.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:45pm

Are you kidding, RentBoy?

[greenegirl87]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:45pm

haha that sounds like fun!!!!!!!

EDIT: but i am going to miss megan hilty :[

Updated On: 11/9/05 at 01:45 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:51pm

I will finally see the show now.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:52pm

ann has a bunch of concerts w/ the philly pops in december. i guess she can just commute. i thought it wasn't happening until ana gasteyer was out of the show in chicago. shows you what i know.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:53pm

You're really hearing Chicago? I heard New York... Damn, I hope it's NYC!!

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:55pm

I've heard New York as well.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 1:56pm

PLEASE let it be NY...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 2:19pm

If it's Chicago, then I will have to drag my ass to see this show AGAIN. *sigh* I haven't seen them since the Sibling Revelry tour and I love the Callaways.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 2:26pm

I can't figure out if any of you are really serious or just passing time making jokes. These two are both fantastic performers, but I cannot imagine either of them in this show. It is such a mediocre show, and Liz's voice is just better than the material, all the way around. I'm flummoxed.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 2:32pm

redhot, just because they are better than the material does not mean they don't want to be in a hot show. AND together. Think of the big picture.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 2:34pm

liz is best friends w/ stephen schwartz and has done a two person cabaret act with him for years. she was the first to sing DEFYING GRAVITY. i think it is a stunt meant for a limited run.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 2:52pm

Rath - I hear ya, but I just really disliked the show so much, and I feel that they are both capable of getting good work elsewhere - not to mention (and I know I'll get slapped for this) that they are both a bit long in the tooth to play the roles of college chums.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 2:56pm

When was the last time you saw either on Broadway? And maybe they don't feel the same way about the show as you do.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 2:58pm

Oh, why shouldn't they do it? If nothing else, you can put on your resume that you can play green and have ridden 8x per week in a cherry-picker. That's got to have some merit in "special skills."

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 3:01pm

The last time I saw liz was in The Spitfire Grill a few years back, and I think Ann's last show was probably Swing (wasn't that the name of it?) I never actually considered Ann an actress - more of a cabaret singer with a talent for writing. (not that you have to be much of an actress to carry off either of these two roles). I'm all for people working in the theatre- hell, thats why they got involved in the business - but this just doesn't sound like a very interesting choice, to me. Give me their cabaret act, Sibling Revelry, any day!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 3:01pm

Aren't they both a bit old??

(I'm still not sure if this is real or not)

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 3:03pm

Hanna - you slay me!...I was thinking the same thing!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 3:08pm

red, maybe they're going for a new demographic. They have cornered the teen/tween girl market. I have had no desire to see the show before, but I would run to see it with these two. It's marketing, it's business, and for them, it's a run on Broadway - together.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 3:15pm

I heard the two surviving Del Rubio triplets are doing the show in Canada.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 3:17pm

Ha! Okay, now THEY are too old.