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Post by shady23 on Sept 26, 2017 8:10:58 GMT
Benjamin Yates is first cover Fiyero.
THAT I need to see! Love him!
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Post by lifewithjoe on Sept 26, 2017 8:16:43 GMT
ITS CONFIRMED. Amy Ross as Elphaba and Helen Woolf as Glinda!
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Post by ensembleswings on Sept 26, 2017 8:24:58 GMT
Benjamin Yates is first cover Fiyero. THAT I need to see! Love him! Need to try and see this! Also how do you know who's understudy for what role? I've only seen the general ensemble cast and who the leads are |
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Post by shady23 on Sept 26, 2017 8:36:34 GMT
I just saw it on Twitter.
Amy Goodwin is covering both Glinda and Elphaba.
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Post by daniel on Sept 26, 2017 8:39:32 GMT
I just saw it on Twitter. Amy Goodwin is covering both Glinda and Elphaba. Was just about to post this you beat me too it! That's super exciting. Imagine going to watch a double day and seeing her do one show as each! |
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Post by stevej678 on Sept 26, 2017 8:52:37 GMT
To go from Nicola, arguably the most thankless role in Kinky Boots, to Elphaba in Wicked is certainly gravity defying career progression for Amy Ross. Looking forward to seeing this cast in Liverpool!
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Post by welsh_tenor on Sept 26, 2017 8:55:36 GMT
And with Zoe and Natasha both having left then we’ve got another new Elphaba too.
Elphaba:
Amy Ross
Nikki Bentley
Amy Goodwin
2nd u/s
Glinda:
Helen Woolf
Grace Chapman
Amy Goodwin (assuming Amy remains 2nd Glinda as last time)
Fieyro:
Aaron Sidwell
Benjamin Yates
Charlie Karlsen
Morrible:
Kim Ismay
1st u/s
Emily Olive-Boyd:
Nessa:
Emily Shaw
Grace Chapman
Boq:
Iddon Jones
1st u/s
2nd u/s
Wizard/Dillamond:
Steven Pinder
1st u/a
2nd u/s
Chistery:
Jack Harrison-Cooper
Midwife:
5th is all that matters...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 8:56:36 GMT
THIRD cover Glinda? Don't tell me Wicked are learning from their mistakes and employing an adequate number of covers for each role!?
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Post by AliceFearnFan2212 on Sept 26, 2017 9:03:02 GMT
And with Zoe and Natasha both having left then we’ve got another new Elphaba too. Elphaba: Amy Ross Nikki Bentley Amy Goodwin 2nd u/s Glinda: Helen Woolf 1st u/s Amy Goodwin (assuming Amy remains 2nd Glinda as last time) Fieyro: Aaron Sidwell Benjamin Yates 2nd u/s Morrible: Kim Ismay 1st u/s Emily Olive-Boyd: Boq: Iddon Jones 1st u/s 2nd u/s Wizard/Dillamond: Steven Pinder 1st u/a 2nd u/s Chistery: Jack Harrison-Cooper Midwife: 5th is all that matters... Grace Chapman is 2nd cover Glinda and Amy is third so i wonder who is 1st cover |
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Post by welsh_tenor on Sept 26, 2017 9:08:40 GMT
THIRD cover Glinda? Don't tell me Wicked are learning from their mistakes and employing an adequate number of covers for each role!? I assumed it meant 3rd Elphaba to go on as in Lead, Standby and then 1st u/s?!?! |
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Post by welsh_tenor on Sept 26, 2017 9:18:08 GMT
And with Zoe and Natasha both having left then we’ve got another new Elphaba too. Elphaba: Amy Ross Nikki Bentley Amy Goodwin 2nd u/s Glinda: Helen Woolf 1st u/s Amy Goodwin (assuming Amy remains 2nd Glinda as last time) Fieyro: Aaron Sidwell Benjamin Yates 2nd u/s Morrible: Kim Ismay 1st u/s Emily Olive-Boyd: Boq: Iddon Jones 1st u/s 2nd u/s Wizard/Dillamond: Steven Pinder 1st u/a 2nd u/s Chistery: Jack Harrison-Cooper Midwife: 5th is all that matters... Grace Chapman is 2nd cover Glinda and Amy is third so i wonder who is 1st cover That’ll be an interesting one then as in the last two tours we only had two u/s!! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 9:18:17 GMT
THIRD cover Glinda? Don't tell me Wicked are learning from their mistakes and employing an adequate number of covers for each role!? I assumed it meant 3rd Elphaba to go on as in Lead, Standby and then 1st u/s?!?! Ohhh maybe, but 2nd Elphaba would be standby. |
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Post by welsh_tenor on Sept 26, 2017 9:23:35 GMT
Ah I love this!
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Post by daniel on Sept 26, 2017 9:28:17 GMT
Maybe she auditioned for the Green side of things and got the understudy gig, but then the producers figured that if she understudied Glinda on the last tour they may as well keep her as a backup, hence being an "extra" understudy?
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Post by welsh_tenor on Sept 26, 2017 9:39:56 GMT
Elphaba:
Amy Ross
Nikki Bentley
Amy Webb
Amy Goodwin
Glinda:
Helen Woolf
Charli Baptie
Grace Chapman
Amy Goodwin
Fieyro:
Aaron Sidwell
Benjamin Yates
Charlie Karlsen
Morrible:
Kim Ismay
Helen Walsh
Emily Olive-Boyd:
Nessa:
Emily Shaw
Grace Chapman
Hannah Cadec
Boq:
Iddon Jones
Jason Broderick
Wizard/Dillamond:
Steven Pinder
Chistery:
Jack Harrison-Cooper
Midwife:
Helen Walsh
5th is all that matters...
I’ve removed references to 1st & 2nd u/s for now as it’s not clear who is who, but here is the latest list as known from various cast tweets!
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Post by ensembleswings on Sept 26, 2017 11:08:52 GMT
Elphaba: Amy Ross Nikki Bentley Amy Goodwin Glinda: Helen Woolf Charli Baptie Grace Chapman Amy Goodwin Fieyro: Aaron Sidwell Benjamin Yates Charlie Karlsen Morrible: Kim Ismay Emily Olive-Boyd: Nessa: Emily Shaw Grace Chapman Hannah Cadec Boq: Iddon Jones Jason Broderick Wizard/Dillamond: Steven Pinder Chistery: Jack Harrison-Cooper Midwife: 5th is all that matters... I’ve removed references to 1st & 2nd u/s for now as it’s not clear who is who, but here is the latest list as known from various cast tweets! Thanks for this! Saves me spending my whole half hour break trailing through twitter trying to figure out who's covering what. Mind figuring out the understudies seems to be far more exciting than the cast announcement as a whole |
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Post by welsh_tenor on Sept 26, 2017 12:06:17 GMT
Feel free to pop over to twitter to check out my profile - there’s too much to say just now @welsh_tenor at the back stage press launch.
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Post by shady23 on Sept 26, 2017 12:18:41 GMT
It's started... 😂
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Post by tr252 on Sept 26, 2017 12:24:47 GMT
Somewhere in the world, there is a factory re-calculating the demand and production levels of Nutella...
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Post by welsh_tenor on Sept 26, 2017 13:17:51 GMT
What a great launch event – this should be done for every cast change and tour launch! Apologies this is slightly lengthy…..
I arrived and there were at least 100 people already there, everyone was given the 10th anniversary souvenir programme. Michael McCabe kicked the event off by referencing the Wizard of Oz book from 1900 and how it had inspired a generation of stories. Michael told how Gregory McGuire lived in London and would frequently sit in the evenings near London Zoo and hear the animals, it was this that inspired him to wonder about the path that the Wicked Witch had taken, linked with what would happen if animals could talk – and that led to the themes of the Wicked stories.
Michael McCabe referenced the two years of planning to get the original tour up and running, that if the production standards of Broadway and London couldn’t be honoured then they weren’t going to take it on tour. He also mentioned the extraordinary supporters who come back to the show time and time again (I thought this was a lovely touch!)!
The London production is shortly to become the 15th longest running show in West End history.
Michael referenced the notion of “celebrity” today. That people can be famous just for being on the TV, and a lack of strong female role models for young people to look up to. He talked about the Wicked For Good programme to tackle bullying and their school education programme. Amongst strong role models he called out Elphaba as someone who people make a connection to and feel inspired by.
Amy Ross and Aaron Sidwell then came on stage and sang As Long As You’re Mine – I really liked it, their voices blend well together!
Hannah Williams is a senior costume supervisor in London and came on stage to talk through some of the designs – this was brilliant for a geek! There are 20,000 items in a warehouse in the Midlands just for London and the UK tour. It takes three months from the initial measurement session to the cast being able to wear the costume and each outfit has three different fitting sessions. The quickest change in the show is Glinda who has 49 seconds to get out of the bubble dress and is supported by 3 dressers!! Another quick change is the 8 ensemble who have 3 ½ minutes to get into their monkey costumes which contains 8 different bits to put on!
In total there have been 35 bubble dresses made for the UK productions (London and tours) and they’re all made by the same seamstress in the UK – the bubble dress is washable! In the ensemble, no person has two gloves the same, the left and right hand are always different! There you go fact fans!
Amy and Helen then sang For Good! After that we were taken outside to see Elphaba “Defy Gravity!” There was no singing but we were treated to a fully greened up Natasha Ferguson in her Act 2 outfit hoisted above the harbour in Bristol! Natasha then posed for photos and I got my first #elphieselfie
After the event I chatted to Michael McCabe who confirmed it’s this cast doing Zurich rather than the last International cast (as we suspected when the International tour got cut short!). I told him this type of an event is what fans want to see and he smiled and said he knows – whether anything will be done in the future who knows. He was really lovely to chat to, we talked about the fans and he joked that he doesn’t know how people afford to see it so many times in the same week!
I left after Amy and Helen signed my programme – rehearsals start in two weeks and some of the ensemble are having their costume fittings today. If you want to see some of the photos I’m on twitter @welsh_tenor. The leads were doing radio and press interviews as I left, lots of people walking around with headsets on looking important!
A great day out!
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Post by shady23 on Sept 26, 2017 13:57:36 GMT
I had absolutely no idea he lived near the zoo and that's where the ideas about Animals came from. That is so interesting.
Hopefully more events like this will follow as it sounds like it was done really well. They are doing something similar tomorrow night in conjunction with Mastercard for the eleventh birthday. Unfortunately that costs about £70 to go to!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 15:22:25 GMT
Benjamin Yates, I'm there!  |
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Post by zak97 on Sept 26, 2017 15:35:09 GMT
No Jessamy?
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 26, 2017 16:10:57 GMT
Maybe it was just the bad stream..or sound...or set up...or lack of rehearsal....but i caught a bit of ALAYM and it sounded really quite bad. Like painful. I actually had to switch the stream off.
I did not expect this.
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Post by deej4life on Sept 26, 2017 16:32:11 GMT
Does anyone know where As Long As You're Mine & For Good can be heard?
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