Wicked day for Elphieisperky...3 cast members out — Page 2

That article almost made me cry. I mean, does she not like Wicked? Is she really ungrateful? Well, she's a heck of a performer, and although she's not my favorite, she should know how many people do love her, and will miss her.

Updated On: 11/26/05 at 07:37 PM

the article just makes it SEEM like she's ungrateful. Shoshana is just tired, exhausted, "fried"... and who can blame her? Or anyone towards the end of a 1 year run in a show and in a role that takes a huge toll on every aspect of your being. Even Sho, who has great vocal training and control over her voice, is really starting to be affected by the demandingness of the role.

At this point in Idina's run her voice was pretty much shot and she was screaming as best she could vs. shoshana who is sick but still sounds fierce (and on key). I think she's doing her best, and the fan part was overwhelming and she didn't know how to handle it so when it became too much she just freaked and backed away from fans almost completely for a bit.

As far as I'm concerned, she's gotten a lot of **** during her run, and it's time we all back off, respect the good job she's doing, fan or her performance or not, she's just a person who's tired. But more importantly, she's just a person.



edit: also in the article she mentions she got a throat infection in september from overworking, which is why she was out off and on in September.

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Updated On: 11/27/05 at 01:47 AM

i know for a fact Shoshana is not ungrateful..
you have no idea how humbled she was to get the role...the could have SOOOO easily given the role over to stunt casting and brought in a star...but they didn't...
the hard part with shoshana is she isn't living her dream...which is to record and i am sure she will be a great success...she NEEDS to move on and do that...
journalists love to spin a story out of whack..i am sure MORE positive things were said but he chose this spin...its unfortunate because it does make her sound ungrateful..
she is just trying to get through the last weeks she has without missing a show..i can relate..there is no way i could do that role 8 times a week for a year!! could YOU?!!!

exactly, i don't think she sounds ungrateful. I think there are subtle hints that she might be from the journalist, but thats editorializing, not truth. She just sounds tired... very, very tired.

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I think most of us were referring to the way the article was worded, not Shoshana herself.

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wooooah

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^My question exactly.

i was searching, and saw it, but didn;t look when it was from, sorry.

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