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Top 15 actresses to have played Elphaba & Glinda

[A little contextualizing is necessary here.  As this is a series about the lives and careers of two individuals with significant careers on Broadway and in film (Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon), there are a lot of well known Broadway numbers on this soundtrack.  As the show is meant to be documenting the numbers as performed (as opposed to within the context of the work), these numbers are not just “Actor X performs song A” but “Actor X as Actor Y performs Song A.”  I’ll spell it out more explicitly below.]

Featuring the following tracks:

Bianca Marroquin (as Chita Rivera), Rema Webb (as Paula Kelley) and The Fandango Girls - “Hey Big Spender” (from “Sweet Charity”)

PJ Benjamin (as Russ Brown), Nick Blaemire (as James Komack) and Brian Cali (as Nathaniel Frey) - “Heart” (from “Damn Yankees”)

Kelli Barrett (as Liza Minnelli) and The Kit Kat Girls - “Mein Herr” (from “Cabaret”)

Ethan Slater (as Joel Grey), Alysha Umphress and Morgan Weed - “Two Ladies” (from “Cabaret”) [Umphress and Weed’s characters are not given names in the episode.]

Kelli Barrett (as Liza Minnelli) - “Cabaret” (from “Cabaret”)

Nathan Barr - “Pas De Deux”

Tim Young (as John Rubinstein) - “Corner Of The Sky” (from “Pippin”)

Blake Baumgartner (as Nicole Fosse) - “I Guess I’ll Miss The Man” (from “Pippin”) [Yes, this is sung by Bob Fosse’s daughter.  And yes, in context, that is as weird as you might imagine.]

Bianca Marroquin (as Chita Rivera) - “All That Jazz” (from “Chicago”)

Tyler Hanes (as Jerry Orbach) and Sean Patrick Doyle (as Michael O’Haughey) - “We Both Reached For The Gun” (from “Chicago”)

Michelle Williams (as Gwen Verdon) - “Razzle Dazzle” (from “Chicago”)

Lin-Manuel Miranda (as Roy Scheider) - “Mr. Bojangles”

2006

P.J. Benjamin (The Wizard)

Top 15 actresses to have played Elphaba & Glinda