I also heard they fired her because she ate Idina's baby..
Um...
I heard they fired her b/c Idina and her didnt have good chemistry.
OMG Idina had a BABY? Is she pregnant again? I heard she was pregnant...
Is it just me, or wasn't Mandy Gonzalez the original ORIGINAL Elphaba?
Actually, the original Elphaba was Jesus, in the very first workshop. He was really good but his skin didn't really look natural under the green make up, and didn't have good chemistry with Judas, who played Glinda. And he wasn't a girl.
Wait, so WHEN exactly did the first workshop take place, BalletGirl?
It took place in between the Last Supper and the time Jesus died. A source told me that. Stephen Schwartz, you may have heard of him. I know him. My dog's mother's Priest's Back Waxer's Neice knows him, so that makes us like, *THIS* close. Trust me. I am in the know.
I heard they had to fire Jesus because he enjoyed the brookstick between his legs a little too much.
BalletGirl, was that the workshop Sutton was in?
Really?! I heard they fired him because he was PISSED OFF that Judas was getting more bling even though his part was smaller. Jesus was like "Hhhhokay, so. In the book, Elphaba dominates and Glinda is HARDLY THERE. Just because Judas Chenoweth joins the cast, you give her way more to do than Greg Maguire originally wrote, AND you pay her more?! I AM SO JEALOUS." So the directors were like "Jesus, please." Then they booted his ass out the door. MMMMHMM. Updated On: 12/30/04 at 05:22 PM
Yes, and for winning she gets to go to hell (with Jesus)
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sdll, it was true about her auditioning
it's not like she was a bway star when she auditioned for wicke
I am SO going to hell!! And that's okay.
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don't worry!
Hell is a very nice place to live - i hope to return
Munk honey, I've been trying to tell you for months..."it's just you".
I ACTUALLY heard that they wanted Carol Channing for Elphaba, but that's another post entirely...
Al Dente: I've never heard you tell me once (for months as you say) that she didn't do it. I don't remember where I heard it - I just assumed it to be true. I couldn't care less about WICKED and who came before Idina, I just like Mandy.
Keep in mind though that Jesus did recieve severence pay. He had been through all the rehearsals before they fired him, and he ended up making more than his replacement anyway - Mary Magdalene. She did it for free, as long as everyone agreed that they would stop calling her a whore. After him being fired, our Lord and Savior moved to Las Vegas and became a back up dancer for Celine Dion's Vegas show. He was fired from there about a month later for exposing himself repeatedly to little boys. So upon his firing, he returned to the Holy land and had to face everyone again - who knew he was fired because they read it on the internet before Jesus had the chance to tell them. To hide from all the pain and shame, he tried to overdose on Lipitor, but it didn't work so he attached himself to a wooden cross. His death is highly misunderstood. He didn't die for our sins, he died because he killed himself. Disagree as much as you want, but my mom went to high school with him so she knows the inside scoop.
Sutton Foster was, as everyone else said, in the ensemble of Wicked during workshops. To add on to what someone else said about the leads being great during the workshop, I also think she wanted to do it so she could see how the show is developed and explore the process of a workshop, without having the spotlight on her.
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