“You know, fifteen, easily. And that’s not counting understudies. That’s counting girls that have held this contract from the time I was Raoul ‘til now. I get two Christines a week and no two Christines are alike, which is the beauty of it.”
At the Gershwin Theater, production stage manager Marybeth Abel is adding a new actor to the theater’s production of “Wicked.” “Wicked” will celebrate its 10th anniversary in October.
“I always say my primary job is to make sure that the show goes on every night as scheduled and that we do it successfully and we get a standing ovation at the end of the night.”
Marybeth Abel works with actors and a backstage crew - about 120 people. They make sure the show does not have any problems during its eight performances every week.
“Hands down, when you’re in a long-run show, the best thing that happens is that there’s turnover in cast. That’s the best thing that happens because all those influxes of difference make everybody, like, step up.”
One of the new actors is Willemjin Verkaik. She plays Elphaba, the green girl who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. Verkaik is from the Netherlands and has played Elphaba in Europe, in both Dutch and German. Now she is doing it on Broadway in English.
Willemjin Verkaik was asked to take the place of Idina Menzel, who won a Tony Award for the part. Yet she says she has found ways to make the part her own.
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