The Ongoing Wicked Discussion Thread

What date is cast change ?

The new cast’s first show is Tuesday 7th March, I believe.

I have a possibly stupid question! I saw Wicked a lot in the couple of years after it opened and paid a lot of attention to the casts I was seeing (I was a provincial teen and it was always a very exciting occasion to queue for day seats. Also a very long time to stare at the cast board for want of anything else to do). I then moved on to other passions, but went back once in January 2013 and once in March 2019, paying exactly no attention to the cast board either time. Obviously there’s every chance I saw covers, but is there any kind of online archive of past casts anywhere for interest’s sake? If so, I’m sure it’s linked somewhere in here, but the thread is very long.

Thank you so much!

Doesn’t seem to have gone down well on Twitter. Lucie has now deleted the app.

Someone tweeted asking if she’s ever on

A musical director to be more precise which is just mad

Of course we’ve had our discussions here that she misses a lot of shows but there could be many reasons why

Most people are just curious but there’s a time and a place and that wasn’t it! Came across very cruel and must’ve upset her

It seems she's taking herself off Twitter for a while.

If someone has to go off mid show there is obviously a very good reason for that.

There is a lot more going on than that comment. Sadly not for the first time, many Elphaba's have been trolled terribly by people who claim to be fans of the show.


Whether they do this for attention I do not know. Lucie has always made herself very accessible to her fans on social media and in real life. She is lovely and friendly at stage door. It saddens me that this is never enough for some people.

I’m not an avid Wicked follower so can’t really speak on that, but I was an avid Waitress follower during the London run, and honestly, Lucie had a lot of Waitress absences too. So I don’t think her Wicked absences can be down to solely the rigours of Elphaba. Although Jenna isn’t a cake walk either. I just think she’s generally unreliable as a performer.

I don’t remember that being the case (but not to say she wasn’t!) but just generally she was off a lot. Some of it was illness and some of it scheduled days off I think, and some of it who knows. Just a quick look at the understudies twitter account and both Sarah and Olivia played Jenna quite a lot during Lucie’s run (which was shortened by Sara joining), and also Desi when she had to emergency cover for a week! I’m not ragging on Lucie btw (and I certainly don’t think people should be calling her out directly on social media) but she just isn’t a performer I would ever bet much money on being on, lol!

This is not true

No she did 8 shows a week as Jenna, or in theory was meant to. There was no alternate situation.