Thursday Thirteen is a meme where you list 13 of anything on a Thursday.......There was a comment on my previous post entitled "I Couldn't Be Happier". I began to answer and post on the comment section BUT my response didn't fit the comment form.......oops! Lani said I should just make a new posting. SO here's my Thursday Thirteen....plus 9 more!
The question by anonymous was "In your post you said Julia Murney had nuances, hand gestures etc. in Wicked. Can you give examples?"
Ok....so you asked for it.......Julia makes the character of Elphaba very believable by that I mean that the mannerisms she chose for her are very natural......like a regular person in real life would possess. She embodies the character even in the small moments when she's not the focus of the action on stage.
Here's a list of JM's exquisite acting moments:
- > the look of excitement and at the same time nervousness when she first gets to Shiz univ. (doesn't everyone feel that the first time in college?) --> she even re-adjusts her uniform several times
- > the scratching of her nose and constant re-adjustment of her glasses during the Shiz scenes (what a nerd)
- > she always talks under her breath every time Glinda disses her
- > the way she melts when she sings the lyrics: I'd be so happy I could Melt!
- > after singing Wizard and I she takes a deep breath and puts her hands on the top head with overwhelming joy and happiness at what just happened
- > in "What is this Feeling", when Glinda comes out with the Shiz students as her "entourage", Julia looks around too and even looks towards the wings to see if she too has an entourage (nice comedic touch!)
- > her "nerdy-unsure-everybody's watching me" Elphie dance during Dancing Through Life
- > the way she imitates Glinda's (well actually Kendra's) voice in toss toss
- > after I'm Not That Girl....she stands and soaks in the rain, closes her eyes and tilts her head up to the sky......enjoying the rain on her face
- > the shaking of the umbrella when Mrs. Morrible changes the weather just before the train station scene
- > the staring into space as if she just realized something when Glinda tells her that Fiyero has been thinking and it started when Dr. Dillamond was fired
- > the staring at the flowers Fiyero just gave her as if in disbelief that he gave that to her combined with subtle glimpses she gives him during the time Glinda says she was going to change her name
- > the head bob in DG when she sings "as someone told me lately" --> like mocking the "sayer"
- > the look of pain as if someone punched her in the gut when she hears Glinda and Fiyero are getting married
- > the way she showed her green hands to Dr. Dillamond in the freeing of the monkeys scene to remind him who she was
- > the look of pain and feeling trapped and betrayed when Fiyero said "silence witch" during her capture
- > her "WHAT" when Fiyero tells Glinda he's going with Elphaba
- > the grabbing of Fiyero's butt when he kisses her in As Long As You're Mine (it shows the urgency of the moment)
- > her "We can't all come and go by bubble" line
- > her cackle --> well, very Margaret Hamilton
- > her whole NO GOOD DEED.........It' s a portrait of someone at her wits end; someone in desparation
- > the sexy strut/walk into downstage position before she sings the final verses in the finale
At the Town Hall All Singin All Dancing Concert she did last July 07 Julia said this quote (thanks Ashley!):
"Here is a truth: every show closes. Sometimes it’s after a long, healthy run. And sometimes, after untold hours of trying to get it right, a show opens and closes very soon thereafter. Sometimes you know exactly why it’s closing. And sometimes you really don’t. But you have to mend your heart, pack up the dressing room space you just decorated, say goodbye to your extended family, and give up the chance to tell a story eight times a week to a bunch of strangers in the dark. Of course if you’ve been telling the story to seventy-five strangers in the dark in a house that seats twelve hundred, that’s why you’re closing. But I digress. The point is, a show is a living, breathing, moody, transcendent thing. But no matter how much you love it, or how hard you work at it, as soon as it closes, it’s gone."
>>> I'm glad I got to see those exquisite acting moments and writing them down somehow relives the magic.
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