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Wicked second national tour
#25re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/7/09 at 12:22pmI 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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#26re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/7/09 at 4:52pmFosse76: I mean continuing with Wicked after the Chicago production closes.
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#28re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:44amCarrie Manolakos is the Elphaba Standby.
#29re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:53amI thought Anne Brummel was the standby!
#30re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/8/09 at 11:21amNo, Anne Brummel will be the understudy. She'll be in the ensemble.
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#31re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/10/09 at 2:59pmthe 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.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#32re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/10/09 at 3:05pm
Which is a perfect example why every understudy shouldn't get promoted.
Are you serious?
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#33re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/10/09 at 3:12pm
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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#35re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/16/09 at 6:18pm
Any more casting updates?
Also, when do they start?
#36re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/16/09 at 6:46pmI wonder just how cut back it will be.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#37re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/16/09 at 7:35pmMarilyn Caskey will supposedly be Madame Morrible.
snowskittle
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#38re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/17/09 at 1:29pm
"Cut back" ?
What does this mean? Cutbacks in people, sets, number of shows?
What?
#39re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/17/09 at 1:31pm
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.
Fosse76
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#40re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/17/09 at 6:51pm
"They're using the physical production from Chicago....so it will be the same as that production."
It'll probably revert to the original tour-version. The Chicago set was modified for the sit down (it closed for about a week after the tour company left to make the changes). I find it unlikely they will keep the trap door for the tour. I'd even be surprised if the kept the side balcony, which also was added spefically after the tour company left.
#41re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/17/09 at 6:53pmThey are cutting it back a little. They are changing the script and making it a little more simpler.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
snowskittle
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#42re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/17/09 at 10:23pmI can see why they would have to make changes for different stages on tour but why would they change the script?
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#43re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/17/09 at 10:31pm
Skittle... They were being sarcastic.
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Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
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#44re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/17/09 at 11:55pmI was just working with Winnie Holzman on an event and she told me she was flying to chicago to work on the 2nd national tour with "some changes being made".
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
Tag
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#45re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/18/09 at 12:44am
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.
#46re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 1/18/09 at 2:24amIt's probably tiny things do to a track or two being cut, or maybe some pieces of set pertaining to the story being cut.
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Chorus Member Joined: 3/23/09
#47re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 3/23/09 at 10:11pm
(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
#48re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:24pm
really for Boq? I felt that Ted Ely had an amazingly clear/smooth voice when I saw him in Chicago.
(and really, just curious, why is BWW a "piece of trash"?)
Baylink
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#49re: Wicked second national tour
Posted: 3/23/09 at 11:43pm
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.
