Gasteyer Is Elphaba, Reed Is Morrible and Weygandt Is the Wizard in Chicago Wicked Playbill.com has learned Ana Gasteyer, Rondi Reed and Gene Weygandt will head the cast of the open-ended, sit-down production of Wicked, which will play Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre beginning June 24.
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Gasteyer, who is also a Northwestern alum, will head the cast as the green-faced Elphaba. Chicago's own Reed and Weygandt will play the roles of, respectively, Madame Morrible and The Wizard. The open-ended Wicked run follows the April 29-June 12 engagement featuring the touring cast. That company stars Stephanie J. Block as Elphaba and Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda.
Best known for her work on "Saturday Night Live," Gasteyer has appeared on Broadway in The Rocky Horror Show and Off Broadway in The Vagina Monologues and Kimberly Akimbo. She also played Fanny Brice in the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's production of Funny Girl and was recently seen in the New York City Opera mounting of Cinderella. Her screen credits include "Mean Girls," "What Women Want," "Woman on Top," "Dick" and "What's the Worst That Could Happen?"
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Date: 2005-03-24 05:08 am (UTC)Gasteyer Is Elphaba, Reed Is Morrible and Weygandt Is the Wizard in Chicago Wicked
Playbill.com has learned Ana Gasteyer, Rondi Reed and Gene Weygandt will head the cast of the open-ended, sit-down production of Wicked, which will play Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre beginning June 24.
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Gasteyer, who is also a Northwestern alum, will head the cast as the green-faced Elphaba. Chicago's own Reed and Weygandt will play the roles of, respectively, Madame Morrible and The Wizard. The open-ended Wicked run follows the April 29-June 12 engagement featuring the touring cast. That company stars Stephanie J. Block as Elphaba and Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda.
Best known for her work on "Saturday Night Live," Gasteyer has appeared on Broadway in The Rocky Horror Show and Off Broadway in The Vagina Monologues and Kimberly Akimbo. She also played Fanny Brice in the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's production of Funny Girl and was recently seen in the New York City Opera mounting of Cinderella. Her screen credits include "Mean Girls," "What Women Want," "Woman on Top," "Dick" and "What's the Worst That Could Happen?"
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