| SPOILERS: favorite Elphabas and Glindas? | |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 01:54 pm EST 11/22/24 | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 01:52 pm EST 11/22/24 | |
| In reply to: Who are people's favorite Elphabas and Glindas? - GabbyGerard 01:26 pm EST 11/22/24 | |
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| SPOILERS: There was something so nerve-y about Idina Menzel that I never “felt sorry” for Elphaba. She was a real hero, never a victim and very exciting. And of course she, like Chenoweth, had such a childlike ping to her sound that it was possible to buy her as a very young girl. There is a tiktok channel from a show-biz afficianado/performer named Jordan Donnelly who has made many videos about who sang Elphaba the best. I think he favors Rachel Tucker. I would bet Shoshana Bean. But Menzel is the perfect one. She hit everything, including the coldness she uses to avoid her feelings for Fiyero so that when she melts for him in Act Two, we alllll melt too. GLINDA: I have heard people rave about Megan Hilty, suggesting that she was able to navigate the change between the wilful child of Act One and the girl who grows a conscience after being an unwitting accomplice in the murder of Elphaba’s sister Nessarose. This is the rough part of the road for a Glinda. Chenoweth has a hard time “getting real” so her Glinda never could. I bet Annaleugh Ashford was able to match her in the high comedy. (The high comedy of Glinda doesn’t make it into the film; Chenoweth is a brilliant farceuse.) NESSAROSE: The original Nessarose (who?) was perfection. So delicate. So beautiful. And so understandably emotionally stunted. A critical character too. FIYERO: Norbert REALLY seemed like a bad boy who skipped school all the time, rarely bathed, was constantly aroused and arousing. Pheromone heaven. The upstanding princeling that others have chosen to play doesn’t hold a candle to this boy. |
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