WICKED on tour...let the casting speculation begin...- Page 2

[Jamie Hat]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 1:51pm

Kendra would be awesome...

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 1:52pm

>> Now, Meryl as Elphaba and Roseanne as Galinda

Now we're talkin'!!! LOLOL

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:26pm

I dont think Jen Cody has a good enough voice to sing Glinda

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:32pm

she is tiny enough though. that is meant in the best possible way.

[sndtrklvr]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:45pm

Any thoughts on tour casting for Fiyero or Miss Morrible? I wonder if they will try and "stunt cast" Miss Morrible for name value. Should we anticipate seeing more of the former Designing Women touring now that Millie has closed? Shouldn't be hard to cast, there is hardly any singing.

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:55pm

i think adam(fleming) would be a good choice for fiyero. him or gavin creel. for madame morrible...god i have no clue!

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:59pm

Well...what I meant about Jen Cody was...I don't think she has a real soprano voice. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[SuperSchubert]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:11pm

Supposedly Kendra Kassebaum has been cast as Glinda.

*Phil screams like a giddy schoolgirl!* That sounds like wonderful casting if it is indeed true. I saw Kendra in a production of A Chorus Line as Val two years ago here in St. Louis. Her "Dance Ten, Looks Three" rendition was hilarious. I'd love to see her take this role on.

how about stephanie d'abruzzio (sp?) from avenue q for glinda

Hmmm...if she could handle the upper soprano stratosphere, I'd almost consider her great for the part. But judging from Avenue Q's cast recording, I'd say that she's a decent mezzo soprano...maybe not coloratura. Wouldn't it be delicious though? The very idea of an actress going from one show to its rival for audiences, and TONYs...OOO!

-SuperSchubert

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:17pm

Jennifer Cody would be a good canidate. She is funny, yet can act ditzy at the same time. I still vote for Stephanie J. Block for Elphaba.

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:18pm

Matt Caplan as Boq.

Jeremy Kushnier as Fiyero.

(I've actually wanted to see Jeremy as Fiyero since I saw Wicked in San Francisco. Just throwing Matt in there because it'd be amusing, although I think he'd be good, too.)

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:18pm

My vote is in for stephanie block too. IT would be really cool to see her again after BFO.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:25pm

Matt would be a good Boq, but I think he might be too tall.

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:28pm

Another vote for Stephaine J. Block. I would kill to here her "Defying Gravity".

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:30pm

who does stephanie play in bfo again? sorry, i've never seen/heard her before.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:34pm

Liza...and shes awesome in that role too.

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 4:36pm

thanks! i just listened to a tiny clip. she has a good voice.

[luckyme_i'mnotyou]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 5:32pm

News on the Rent website is that YES Kendra Kassebaum has been cast as Galinda for the Wicked tour! She will be returning to Rent until the start of the tour!

And too, the shrills of excitement were heard down the block when I heard the news! I LOVE KENDRA! She is my FAVORITE! So talented, she is! And cute too! YEAY!

[orion59]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 6:43pm

"Supposedly Kendra Kassebaum has been cast as Glinda."

NOBODY has been cast yet. There will be nothing officially announced until a contract is signed.

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:08pm

"News on the Rent website is that YES Kendra Kassebaum has been cast as Galinda for the Wicked tour! She will be returning to Rent until the start of the tour!"

Are you referring to the board at CompulsiveBowlers.com?

Heh.

Better learn some cynicism now, before it's too late...

[Al Dente]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:12pm

I'm coming out of semi board retirement to add to Orion's post. There has been absolutely NO casting for the tour or otherwise, so relax freaks! I've never heard of the 2 people you keep mentioning either. Who is this Kessenbaum and is Jenn Cody Fosters wife? Because if that's who you're all babbling on about, than I wouldn't quit my day job if I were any you and decide to go in to casting. Has anyone considered the fact that she can't SING IT?!? How about I state my usual advice when one of these oh-so HIDEOUS and vile threads comes about, let the producers and casting people do their jobs. No matter how badly you *want* something to be true it won't make it so. And posting and shilling it here a million times even, is NOT going to influence the powers that be.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:24pm

Yeah, Jenn Cody is Hunter Foster's wife.

Kendra Kassebaum has played Mark's Mom in RENT for God knows how many years and is currently in Assassins. Kendra has no where NEAR The range for this role, and if I remember right, is an alto, not a s oprano.

I was loking at the RENT site earlier and I was DYING laughing at the thoughtof Kassebaum as Glinda. Itw ould nEVER NEVER NEVER work.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:28pm

I haven't really heard a lot of songs sung by Fiyero on the Wicked album, but how about Adam Pascal?

[Al Dente]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:29pm

Well, thankfully, I don't know the in's and out's of who and how long anyone has played 'Mark's Mom", so I have no idea who Kendra Kassenbaum is, but I'm still laughing at the people that get mentioned in casting threads on this board. It's like everyone is writing from a loony bin. Why would the producers of a huge smash (like it or not, and I didn't but it is a smash), cast some person who has been playing Mark's mom on the TOUR of Rent for 100 years, to helm the first national tour, of said smash? And why would they cast someone who's predominantly been a chorus dancer, in a very vocally demanding role (Cody)? Where do you people get these "brainstorms"?

[orion59]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:30pm

I'm sorry, I didn't realize it came from the Rent board. That's totally a different story becasue as we all know, the posters on the Rent boards are the first people to get access to this info even before the producer.

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:30pm

"Who is this Kessenbaum and is Jenn Cody Fosters wife?"
http://www.google.com