Word: elphaba
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...characters in your books, who is your favorite? GM: I have to say that I like Elphaba, but once saw Kristen D. Chenoweth playing Glinda on the stage I went back and read Glinda and I thought, “Did I write her that funny...
...years later, Wicked is regularly the highest-grossing show on Broadway, with three more companies setting box-office records around the country. And the show's most avid fans are tween girls, who have connected with its themes of friendship, prejudice and self-realization--identifying with Elphaba, the "wicked" witch who's actually just misunderstood...
True, but with preteen girls gabbing about the show in Web chat rooms and snapping up Glinda earrings and DEFY GRAVITY shirts at the Ozdust boutique, they're the crowd the show has really grabbed. "I liked Elphaba because she was different," says Jami, a 10-year-old in Buffalo Grove, Ill., who has virtually memorized the script from reading the $40 coffee-table companion book and recently acted out the entire show with two friends in her bedroom. "It made me feel that it's good to be different...
...than 62% of the Broadway audience is made up of women, and they tend to make the decisions about what the whole family sees. And while shows like The Lion King may be fine for the littlest theatergoers, older girls tend to prefer hipper role models--like Elle and Elphaba...
...House of Flowers." Of the two "Wicked" witches, Chenoweth (who plays Glinda, the blond one) had two splendid Encores! turns, in "Strike Up the Band" in 1998 and in the Barbara Harris-Barbra Streisand role in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" two years later; and Menzel (Elphaba, the green one) belted out "Easy to Be Hard" in the "Hair" revival of 2001. As for Murphy, she headlined Encores!' 2000 revival of "Wonderful Town," and is repeating her role on the Hirschfeld Theatre stage...