Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Who is your favorite Elphaba?
rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
#1Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 3:37pmSo many women have played her. Who is your favorite and why?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 3:38pmBruce Vilanch.
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#2Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 3:59pmGET READY TO RUMMMMMBLLLLLE!
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#4Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 4:42pmIdina. I also enjoyed the understudy I saw in 2009 on the national tour. Her acting and vocals were great and her Defying Gravity blew the roof off of the Buell Theater.
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#5Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 4:47pmI've only seen Jemma Rix..
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#7Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 4:51pmI've only seen (live) Julia Murney, but she was absolutely phenomenal.
#8Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 4:52pmI've only seen Kerry Ellis live, but Glea Michelphaba.
#9Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 5:03pm
For me, Ana Gasteyer. Thought she acted the best Elphaba. Se was able to act while singing also and used the belt to a minimum.
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#10Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 5:16pmMoms Mabley. Shecky Green ran her a close second, though.
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#12Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 5:25pmI've seen Idina Menzel, Eden Espinosa, Ana Gasteyer, and Stephanie Torns. Loved all of them. Glindas I've seen (Megan Hilty, Kate Reinders, Katie Rose Clark)...I liked all of them except for Kate Reinders. Terrible.
#13Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 5:29pmJackie Burns.
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#14Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 5:47pmJackie Mason
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#15Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 6:34pm
Willemijn Verkaik.
Updated On: 2/21/11 at 06:34 PM
#16Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 6:50pm
Well honestly, most Elphaba replacements are just some variation of what Idina Menzel did, acting wise and vocally.
But Julie Murney and Ana Gasteyer were both fantastic. Murney especially blew me away during her Broadway run with Kassebaum in 2007.
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#18Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 7:05pmThough I've seen numerous actresses tackle the role both on Broadway and on tour, my favorite without question is Anne Hathaway in Baz Luhrmann's 2009 film adaptation. Too bad Sandra Bullock took the Oscar. At least Hathaway got a nomination.
#19Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 7:07pmJulia Murney....woman is phenomenal in everything, and she was especially good as Elphie. Such a wonderful interpretation. So detailed.
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#20Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 7:09pm
Can't resist! Elmer Fudd (his Devying Gwavity was one for the books)
Seriously...Julia Murney rocked this role with an added deminsion of feeling and honesty, not to mention nailing the vocals.
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#21Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 7:21pm
Margaret Hamilton.
The one EVERYBODY'S basing it on.
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#23Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 10:19pmEven though like 2/3 of the people in this thread are making fun, I'm still surprised nobody in the other 1/3 has mentioned Mandy Gonzalez.
ADayOnBroadway
Swing Joined: 10/1/06
#24Who is your favorite Elphaba?
Posted: 2/20/11 at 10:57pmThe original is still the best, Idina Menzel was by far the greatest Elphaba that I have seen in Wicked no one can beat it.
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