Things better left unsaid

Lauper, Janney, Shelley, Bean, Breaker and Houdyshell Join Star-Studded Defying Inequality Benefit

By Andrew Gans
February 13, 2009

Additional actors from stage and screen have been announced for Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert — A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights, which will be held Feb. 23 at the Gershwin Theatre, the current home of Wicked.

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Wicked's Bean to Celebrate New CD at Stonewall Inn Nov. 26

By Andrew Gans
November 17, 2008

Shoshana Bean, one of Broadway's acclaimed Elphabas in the hit musical Wicked, will go it solo at the Stonewall Inn Nov. 26.

The free 10 PM concert will celebrate the release of Bean's new solo recording, "Superhero." Scott Nevins will host the evening, which will also feature contestants from "Stonewall Sensation," the Wednesday-night talent competition at Stonewall.

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DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Ashford, Bean, Espinosa, Murney and Thompson

DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Ashford, Bean, Espinosa, Murney and Thompson

By Andrew Gans
October 24, 2008

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

THE GALS OF WICKED
There can be little argument that the biggest theatrical phenomenon of the past five years has been the Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Wicked, which is based on Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name. The production, which celebrates its fifth anniversary at Broadway's Gershwin Theatre Oct. 30, has been a massive hit wherever it has played, including sit-down productions in Chicago and Los Angeles, a national touring company, and international stagings in London, Tokyo, Stuttgart and Melbourne (there will soon be a second U.S. national touring company, and the Los Angeles production will transfer to San Francisco in January 2009). Much of the show's success can be credited to the exciting score (years ago, Schwartz gave belting fans "Meadowlark," and his work for Wicked includes the vocally soaring "Defying Gravity," "The Wizard and I" and "No Good Deed" as well as the comic and catchy "Popular" and the touching ballad "I'm Not That Girl") and the its big heart (Holzman's adaptation of Maguire's clever novel offers several touching moments and keeps the audience rooting for its green-skinned heroine). The musical also provides two of the greatest roles for women in recent musical theatre history, and the work of original co-stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel as well as future Glindas and Elphabas — including Annaleigh Ashford, Shoshana Bean, Stephanie J. Block, Kerry Ellis, Eden Espinosa, Megan Hilty, Kendra Kassebaum, Julia Murney, Jennifer Laura Thompson, among others — cannot be discounted. Recently "Diva Talk" posed the same four questions to several of the actresses who have brought Elphaba or Glinda to full life; their answers follow.

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Well.

This is a general post of music stuff that I've loaded. There will probably be a few more posts of this nature up until the weekend of the 22^nd.

Or else, if people have specific requests coming from the (as yet to be updated) list here, you can make requests... :)

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Reply and I'll give you a letter. You have to find five songs that start with that letter and post them to your journal.

girlie_girl_23 gave me the letter B:

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Just a general list of tracks and so forth...

( saving the f-list )

( This made the programme too... )

Yes. Reasons for squee :)

It really depends on when lfae reads the post - but there is one audio track from Hairspray with Shoshana Bean in a live format :)

Without Love - http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2KU60FRB5WHIF3N3Q281ZLUX4D