Wicked second national tour — Page 2

I heard that SF was a trade off. It was going to start in LA, then to SF, & back to LA for 2 years each.

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I loved her

I thought Anne Brummel was the standby!

the best glinda never to get the lead, for reasons i can't understand, is Kate Loprest, who understudied in Chicago in 05 and went on to Xanadu and Amber in Hairspray on Broadway.

Carrie Manolakos is the Elphaba Standby.
From Mamma Mia!?

Are you serious?
I was referring to when fans get pissed off when their favorite understudy doesn't get promoted. They don't seem to get why they aren't promoted. Not that EVERY understudy shouldn't get promoted, I worded it wrong.

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Any more casting updates?

Also, when do they start?

Marilyn Caskey will supposedly be Madame Morrible.

They're using the physical production from Chicago....so it will be the same as that production.

Wicked likes all of their productions to look exactly the same, so I wouldn't worry.

They are cutting it back a little. They are changing the script and making it a little more simpler.

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Skittle... They were being sarcastic.

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Updated On: 1/17/09 at 10:31 PM

David Stone announced last year that Wicked would return to Toronto in June 2010. It was never established whether it is a tour stop or a sitdown. The latter is suspected. But things change and it might not happen or could be postponed.
Caissie is rumoured because she is from the area.

(I don't generally register for forums for drive-by comments, and I'm regretting bothering here, because BWW's forums are probably *the* worst implemented piece of trash I've come across in 25 years, but I am a big Wicked fan, and I've just been to the 2nd tour show in Ft Myers, so...)

I attended the matinee show last weekend -- and my thanks to the box super; I was a moron, and showed up the week *after* I was actually ticketed for... luckily, both the house and my date were tolerant -- and yes, they set up the trapdoor, stage left.

I saw the first tour in Tampa twice, and I didn't notice that anything specific got cut in this performance; it was just as long as it's always been; no missing music... even a couple of extra bits, if I'm not very much mistaken.

Helene Yorke wasn't bad, though almost no one's Kristen; she is a good enough first to pull off the singing, and I was pretty happy with her smarm... as well as her humanity, something I've seen a couple of reviewers less than impressed with.

Marcie Dodd... doesn't have the *low* range to pull off Elphie; she had to grind the bottom ends off of several numbers, though she did ok with DG. Is Idina a mezz?

Nessarose was a surprisingly good singer; Fiyero was an amazingly good dancer; Boq... well, his voice was just rough.

Lights and makeup seemed ok, though I was in the 6th row of the balcony, instead of L6 The sound engineer, though, really needs to learn how to fly a vocal compressor, and there was *way* too much Aural Exciter on the voices -- especially when they *weren't* singing: you're supposed to punch the effects out, guy.

From a b'way musical enthusiasts PoV: B, maybe a B+.

It probably wouldn't have gotten an O at the Gershwin, but this was Ft Myers, people...
My blog review

I didn't saw BWW was trash, but the forum engine here is the least cooperative one I have ever dealt with -- not that any forum lives up to a good Usenet client.

Most notably, after taking me down the garden path, it simply would *not* let me back to the posting I wanted to comment on...

but luckily, I've *been* down the garden path before, and had Ctrl-clicked the signup, so I didn't lose track.

(The part where I have to sign up for *the entire site* and then turn down a bunch of stuff wasn't all that much fun either, but I suppose I can see why they did it that way.)

But really: there are good forum engines out there; don't build your own. Especially in ColdFusion. Furrfu...


As for Biq... er, um, "Boq" , I dunno; his voice just seemed a bit gritty to me. Not a bad singer; it was more a question of timbre. Though, perhaps, he was cast for that.