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Post by singularsensation10 on May 26, 2017 21:59:40 GMT
Question - when did they change Elphaba's hat design in London? From the taller and thinner hat to the current one? I have a feeling it was Rachel but it could've been Alexia...
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 26, 2017 9:50:43 GMT
I suppose none of the current crazies are Ellis style crazies. Another level of crazy that lot!!!
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 26, 2017 9:22:55 GMT
Sorry to continue the crazy debate but when I was in the height of my wicked craziness about age 14-15 I know for a fact I wasn't the craziest. People double my age at the time we're going multiple times a week, camping for front row seats (even though they were still the only people in the queue at 9am the next morning), would buy presents and know which trains the actors got on....when I went I used to wait outside the stage door for pictures and chats but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I don't think being a 'crazy' has anything to do with age. These Team cast member Twitter accounts are only a Generation Y (bearing in mind they are the generation that were born with technology vs the Millenial's growing up with the constant development of technology - we as Millenials can see both sides of the coin) continuation of the obsession with stage dooring.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 25, 2017 14:38:38 GMT
I personally think letting an actress develop her Elphaba portrayal as understudy or standby before putting her on as lead makes total sense - a marathon role like Elphaba is really, really hard to determine in an audition process. If you listen to (not sorry) audios of Alice's first performances, they are nowhere near as strong as her performances now. So her developing as standby will only be of benefit to her and the show when she absolutely SMASHES her first lead show.
If they had a brand new Elphaba and Glinda at the same time who were fantastic in audition but get them in front of an audience and it all falls apart, it could massively massively backfire and even a show like Wicked couldn't handle a flop of that scale.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 25, 2017 8:11:36 GMT
Well I've still not seen Ms Fearn so plenty to keep me going, plus a new Standby Elphie and it looks like Jessamy is leaving too so another green person to try to catch too! My thoughts exactly. Looking forward to a refresh and a completely new generation of Wicked.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 25, 2017 7:46:11 GMT
I'm putting money on Alice. Just a thought... what's Bradley Jaden up to now the tour has been cancelled?
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 25, 2017 7:08:42 GMT
I feel I should pre-warn you, once you KNOW about fifth cover Midwife, you can't ever unknow it, so if you want to remain innocent then stop reading now... Fifth cover Midwife is a mythical being, forged in the fire of a 500 year war between the Wicked fans and the "Rent-heads". She is not a person but rather an idea... I prefer to think of it less as an idea but more of a way of life...#WWFCMD
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 16, 2017 20:06:04 GMT
I can see them putting something in where the interval is in the stage show. There's a big 10(?) year gap there. And also making more of Elphaba's early life, growing up with Nessa. I wouldn't be surprised if NOMTW is double the length, making it more about her early life, putting more context to her attitude in the 'no I'm not seasick' lines. I also wouldn't be surprised if the screenplay is entirely different to the script, with minimal resemblance from a word perspective. If Winnie doesn't write the screenplay, the person that does write the screen play will have a borderline impossible job to fit Winnie's book around their own perception of the characters and make the writing merge seamlessly.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 16, 2017 11:49:31 GMT
Voulez-vous....A-HA
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 15, 2017 20:48:08 GMT
Wow. Usually I cringe when girls sing that in concerts but that was phenomenal. The band sounds pretty solid too!! This is why it annoys me when the casting team recycle girls despite there being girls like this out there...!
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 15, 2017 18:54:12 GMT
Similarly now they have a British Nabulungi on their present tour, because that show is consistently sending over American leads to the London company. side note - saw this tour while on holiday in Montreal a few weeks ago and she is FANTASTIC.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 15, 2017 16:22:24 GMT
I personally reckon the Wicked marketing team are behind it and they're doing it to drive us all nuts so that when they make their announcement we go doubly crazy, whether it be over or underwhelming. I bet they have a right giggle at this board 😂😂
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 14, 2017 8:38:48 GMT
I think Lucie Jones will make a remarkable Elphaba one day. I love her characterisation of Maureen - I do think she's a bit too young still at the moment, but her time will certainly come and when it does, boy will she be good.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 11, 2017 15:10:46 GMT
LOVE that idea!
All this talk of new cast makes me think of when Alexia was in rehearsals and pictures of them on the street (think there was a fire drill) in costume surfaced, everyone went crazy for it on the old WoO board.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 11, 2017 10:53:04 GMT
Glindas: Charlotte can't remember her surname Scott if it was in London. Jenni (Broadway Glinda, can't remember her surname) Barber. Loved her. Spot on for both - think when I saw Jenni Barber it was a case of bad seats and jetlag so hard to really form an opinion!
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 11, 2017 8:14:50 GMT
I'll haul the list out too then.
Elphabas: 1 Cassidy Janson 2 Idina Menzel 3 Louise Dearman 4 Willemijn Verkaik 5 Hayley Gallivan 6 Ashleigh Gray 7 Christine Dwyer 8 Nicole Parker 9 Rachel Tucker 10 Jackie Hughes 11 Alexia Khadime 12 Nikki DJ (as standby) 13 Jenny Dinoia 14 Kerry Ellis 15 Nikki DJ (as lead) 16 Shona White 17 Emma Hatton 18 Jemma Alexander 19 Michelle Pentecost
Glindas: 1 Sarah Earnshaw 2 Suzie Mathers 3 Louise Dearman 4 Emily Tierney 5 Kara Lindsay 6 Alli Mauzey 7 Gina Beck 8 Savannah stevenson 9 Helen Dallimore 10 Dianne Pilkington
I genuinely can't remember these girls enough to rank them: Laura Emmitt - Elphaba (don't even remember seeing her but I keep a note on my phone of the dates I went and the cast I saw, which clearly states her name. Memorable!!!)
Glindas: Charlotte can't remember her surname Jenni (Broadway Glinda, can't remember her surname)
Loving seeing how Matt Willis is ranking in the Fiyeros - personally I couldn't even tolerate him. He didn't look, move or sound like Fiyero for me. Lee Mead was another strange casting at the time wasn't he! We've had some rather interesting Fiyero casting. Nobody beats Ollie T for me!
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 10, 2017 17:46:18 GMT
Now... I know the scene is meant to be angry but I can't believe she's getting away with *that* angry! Why so many growls?! It's very offputting and just isn't for me I'm afraid.... Nor me I must say... super surprised at how James is letting the ladies have a bit more license to play around now. Willemijns riffs are increasingly fruity and Alice's growls are in abundance - back in the day James wouldn't have taken even a trill in the wrong place but now he seems to be letting them go for it..!
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 9, 2017 12:28:22 GMT
I hate speculation as much as the next person, but I would be very surprised if the new Elphaba is Caucasian. I think the producers know it's time for a big change.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 8, 2017 21:02:08 GMT
I've been to a few Wednesday matinees where the audience is a bit miserable and only the minority get up. But always at least one person gets up. To be honest I can't remember the last west end show I went to without one. Bloody Dreamgirls got about fifty 😂
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 6, 2017 7:35:22 GMT
I agree - if only one actress had an alternate, that could look like 'she's not up to the job' BUT if they make it a standard thing for every Elphaba to only do 6 a week, it doesn't reflect on the individual's ability, but the concienciousnwss of the casting team. My guess is that the tour was a trial for the new alternate role, and throwing this out there - we might see the back of standby Glinda in London considering how well the understudy Glindas got on when Carina disappeared for a while.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 5, 2017 13:22:18 GMT
Thank Goodness is my favourite moment in the show when done properly. A good Glinda can steal the show for me. Lots of Glindas just throw it away... it also has a lot to do with the way the Fiyero plays it too.
I'm personally usually inclined to drift away mentally during INTG (again, lots of Elphabi can't get the right timbre of emotion for this) and Sentimental Man.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 4, 2017 20:04:50 GMT
I actually have a list of every time I've seen the show (55) and the ladies who were playing the leads. Love a lead. My first show was 23 Sep 2006 (matinee ) with Idina and Helen. Almost 11 years ago.....jheeeez... I saw Rachel 11 times and she was the Elphaba I've seen the most out of 22 Elphabi.
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Post by singularsensation10 on May 1, 2017 7:02:19 GMT
Just re-watched the Marybeth Abel episodes, I love her, and them, so much. The stage management side of the show is in many ways more fascinating than Fly Girl / Think Pink / Fiyero Time / Call Me Madam because there's so much information in there, and so many fascinating facts. I got a backstage tour at Wicked as a part of one of the other experiences as a part of the 2016 Wicked Day auction and I couldn't stop myself from asking the company manager all of my burning questions about onstage temperatures and running times and things like that He said that they fully report to the Gershwin and if anything goes wrong (like a no-fly), they have to call up and grovel and explain themselves. It's quite interesting to see how much of a tight ship the world's Wicked productions are. I find this so interesting - on one hand, it's live theatre and they likely couldn't do anything to stop things going wrong. On the other hand, it's Wicked's HQ so it must be like telling your boss' boss that you don't know very well something has gone wrong. Love all that.
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Post by singularsensation10 on Apr 25, 2017 12:56:39 GMT
^^do it! It's very well written - she has a degree in English Lit if I remember correctly so it's a nice read. Couldn't put it down.
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Post by singularsensation10 on Apr 25, 2017 10:25:13 GMT
Jessica Vosk is auditioning for Lead Elphaba here in London for July 2018 I sincerely doubt this but holy moly I'd foot the bill myself. Considering flying out to the US to see that girl play Elphaba. EDIT: she wouldn't have to audition. The casting for productions around the world is done in the US. My good friend was in the London production in the previous cast and her final auditions were taped and sent to the US.
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