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Post by aptheguy on Aug 27, 2022 18:18:40 GMT
How about Susan Sarandon?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 27, 2022 18:26:17 GMT
I think they're gonna get a stage actor for Fiyero The other day I had a notification on Twitter about the Fiyero casting. It was some guy I’ve never heard of (not difficult as I don’t know ANYone) and I overlooked it until I came back ti this thread. Bad news 1 : I don’t remember the name. Bad news 2 : I think that tweet was deleted as there’s no record of it in my notifications. Good news : I don’t care 🙂
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Post by LaLuPone on Aug 27, 2022 18:40:24 GMT
Speaking of Miriam as Morrible, she is very naughty. In the scene where she is talking to Elphaba about the Wizard, she says something like “if you do something for the Wizard, he’ll do much for you” (I can’t remember the exact quote). She then proceeded to make a rather sexual licking gesture with her tongue at the side of her mouth. Naturally this made Idina corpse… which was quite funny. Otherwise, Miriam did a lot of shouting, pointing and absolutely refusing point blank to sing. When Susie Blake took over it was a relief, to be honest - a huge improvement. Lovely story from my mum, who went with my late Nan to see Wicked with a group of Oxfordshire Carers, who Miriam invited to tea in her dressing room…M&S smoked salmon and sandwiches! Miriam talks about how she serves smoked salmon whenever she has guests in her book, and that “it must, like a woman, be moist”! Off-topic but the book is a fantastic read and has some great theatrical stories, I adore Miriam Margolyes.
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Post by ruthieh on Aug 27, 2022 18:42:36 GMT
If only my Nan knew…!
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Post by inthenose on Aug 27, 2022 19:01:32 GMT
Lovely story from my mum, who went with my late Nan to see Wicked with a group of Oxfordshire Carers, who Miriam invited to tea in her dressing room…M&S smoked salmon and sandwiches! Miriam talks about how she serves smoked salmon whenever she has guests in her book, and that “it must, like a woman, be moist”! Off-topic but the book is a fantastic read and has some great theatrical stories, I adore Miriam Margolyes. I really, really like Miriam too. She wasn’t an amazing Morrible though, apart from the novelty of seeing her imperious self! The Wicked cast also sat behind us once at Spamalot, when Spamalot was in previews. Miriam was extremely loud. There’s a bit in a show where King Arthur (Tim Curry) asks “are there any Jews here?!” - naturally Miriam yells at the top of her lungs “YEEEEESSSSSS”. And Tim replies “jolly good!”. Lovely stuff.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Aug 27, 2022 19:13:07 GMT
I'm just watching the Amazon version of Cinderella — the people in this (Cinderella, Prince Charming, his sister) are more the age I'd imagine for Wicked.
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Post by aptheguy on Aug 27, 2022 19:22:26 GMT
I heard about Ethan Slater possibly being Boq
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Aug 27, 2022 21:16:49 GMT
I thought Miriam was great as Morrible. She had a great mix of haughty and terrifying. She was so good she did it again on Broadway. I'd love to see her do it in the film, though I think if any character will be padded out and a song given to, it would probably be Madame Morrible, and though she could get away with it on stage, she wouldnt on film.
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Post by aptheguy on Aug 27, 2022 21:17:34 GMT
Boq and Nessarose need more to do as well as Morrible.
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Post by johnie21 on Sept 2, 2022 12:08:54 GMT
Kiera Allen rumoured for Wicked movie to play the role of Nessa! an American actress known for her role in Hulu thriller Run.
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Post by ladidah on Sept 2, 2022 14:15:29 GMT
I still can't see Cynthia as a wide-eyed teenager entering Oz!
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Post by aptheguy on Sept 2, 2022 19:14:56 GMT
Elphaba’s age is never explicitly stated in the show. She’s definitely older than Nessarose
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Post by inthenose on Sept 2, 2022 19:18:06 GMT
Elphaba’s age is never explicitly stated in the show. She’s definitely older than Nessarose “Elphaba has just started college in Wicked, so she is thought to be eighteen or nineteen years-old. However in the book, she was three years older than Nessarose, which would make her at least 20 or 21 years-old.”
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Post by aptheguy on Sept 2, 2022 22:27:39 GMT
I hope they're gonna reveal the full cast soon.
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Post by QueerTheatre on Sept 2, 2022 22:52:35 GMT
Elphaba’s age is never explicitly stated in the show. She’s definitely older than Nessarose “Elphaba has just started college in Wicked, so she is thought to be eighteen or nineteen years-old. However in the book, she was three years older than Nessarose, which would make her at least 20 or 21 years-old.” I'd guess that they'll frame it as Nessa starting college, with her older sister joining with her to look after her? So she could be 10+ years older (as she will appear) and i guess it just adds to her 'other-ness'? But we wont know til we see it
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Post by fiyerorocher on Sept 2, 2022 23:05:56 GMT
That would make her significantly older than Glinda and Fiyero, though, which I'm not sure would work. Unless they're making them all mature students
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Post by QueerTheatre on Sept 2, 2022 23:13:37 GMT
To be fair, we also dont know what age students start at Shizz, were assuming their university model is similar to ours but its a made up magical land... they could all be precisely 42 for all we know lol
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Post by aptheguy on Sept 3, 2022 0:20:41 GMT
The film could make things more clear than the stage version
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Post by aptheguy on Sept 14, 2022 21:57:47 GMT
Michelle Yeoh is being rumored for Madame Morrible.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 15, 2022 7:58:56 GMT
What happened to the announcement about Hannah Waddingham? We were told it was coming the following Monday...That was two months of Mondays ago!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 15, 2022 8:18:53 GMT
Somebody on t’internet was saying Johnny Bailey is up for Fiyero which seems unlikely!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2022 8:46:55 GMT
"Somebody on the Internet Said" could be the title for a great play or maybe an even better improv sketch.
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Sept 16, 2022 15:30:17 GMT
Jonathan Bailey - Fiyero Michael Keaton - Wizard
Someone said that it could be Idina as Morrible
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Post by robertb213 on Sept 16, 2022 15:56:03 GMT
34 year old Fiyero, 35 year old Elphaba, meeting at University.... that's not stupid at all....! 🤣
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 16, 2022 16:20:49 GMT
They’ll be CGI’d to buggery for the uni scenes.
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