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Yes! Also the way she says lllove in a sassy way

I don’t know anything about starkid but you have every right to fall in love with something new and post the shit out of it. I’m going crazy over Gentleman Jack right now. It happens

You can have the same discussion about Glinda! Is magic innate to certain people or can you learn it in a seminar from Madame Morrible? Is the bubble Glinda’s magic or a technical trick provided to her by the Wizard? So much to discuss.

EXACTLY!!!! In the musical, Glinda casts no spells at all! But we still understand that she has some form of magical powers because she is so desperate to get into the sorcery seminar, which she eventually gets into thanks to Elphaba. So it is to be understood between the scenes (”off-stage”) she gets taught magic and can do magic spells, but has nowhere near the capabilities as Elphaba does which are ridiculously exceptional in the musical.

@takeamessagebackfromme AMEN! listen. I could talk for ages about all the little decisions katie rose clarke made for Glinda, but I’ll spare you all. but I 100% agree that KRC has that Glinda angst down to a t. the moment I completely and utterly fell in love with her performance was right down at the end, after the witch’s melting. Most Glindas are either sad or angry. nothing wrong with that but..

KRC’s Glinda was bitter. oh fuck me up, that’s it. that’s adult Glinda. and when I watched the performance again (don’t judge me) I also noticed the same in NOMTW. Mentally, her Glinda enters that scene with her middle finger put up high like “fuck every single one of you. this is your fault. i hate literally every single one of you. my best friend got killed because of you and i’ll never ever forgive y’all for that.”

I sadly haven’t been able to get my hands on a boot with DiNoia, but I’m super curious about her performance! Especially since she has been playing this role for quite some time as standby etc. and what I’ve heard from most Elphies is that you need to have some experience to handle such an intense role. 

I’m somewhat chiller about Elphabas than Glindas, but yes, I tend to categorize them in “soft” and “rough” Elphabas and I prefer the rougher ones. but I don’t have someone who completely stole my heart like with KRC, because I feel there is so much wiggle room to personalize Elphaba and I love that. 

From the ones I’ve seen and would categorize as “rough” I really like Willemijn Verkaik (she’s awesome, but I’m also hella biased because I’m dutch :P), Donna Vivino, Rachel Tucker, and I remember really digging Emmy Raver-Lampman’s performance and being shocked to my core that she wasn’t a fucking lead wtf? 

I mean, I think it speaks volume that I like the rougher Elphabas since I tend to judge Elphabas on their NGD performance… literally the “you’ve won. I give up” song. 

I couldn’t agree more! I’m also way more critical of my Glindas than my Elphabas probably for that reason. Lots of people who’ve seen wicked once are like “oh I love Glinda, she’s so funny and bubbly! :D” and I’m just over here, dumbstruck and quietly going “did you… did you leave after the first act??” 

And I’m not gonna deny that I have a very weak spot for grown-up angsty and bitter Glinda. I mean, I absolutely love Galinda, she is bubbly and she definitely has a lot of the punchlines in the musical. It’s a hard balance to master, and that’s why I feel like there are many good Glindas, who play her well, but there aren’t many great Glindas, who dig just a little further and portray her growth knowingly.

Also in the book this bubbliness is mostly an act, but not so in the musical. In Wickedly Queer though she is a tad more like the book, because she knows she’s gay and therefore plays the act of the “popular straight girl”. This is why she kinda clings to Fiyero, because (and I’m not sure I made this clear bc it’s implied) but Fiyero’s “scandalacious reputation” is that its rumored he has also dated boys. And Glinda immediately sees an opportunity of “Thank FUCK, another gay person. If we just pretend to be together, we can be gay without the slander of coming out.” 

Obviously, Fiyero is bisexual, and corrects her on that. But he agrees to be her beard, bc partly, he is annoyed that Elphaba had called him selfish just a few minutes ago, but mostly because he realizes that the pure and good image Glinda has got going on can help him clean up a bit of his “scandalous” reputation. 

ANYWAY, I wish I could’ve seen KRC live, but lol, I live on another continent.. I want to visit NY in a year or two, and if she happens to be in any production, I’ll probably see it tbh.