#Carina Gillespie

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So I've been missing since Wednesday because I was at the re-opening night of Wicked and I am still recovering from the lack of sleep and emotion but with WEL coming up you can expect lots of musical gifs over the next few weeks, anyway enjoy a wicked photo dump

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Thoughts on the new Wicked London cast?

Ok... so...

I am super surprised how white this cast was.... I really thought we were going to get a POC Elphaba and POC Morrible this cast change, but anyway...

I'm super excited that Amy Webb and Charli Baptie are continuing as standby's because I think they are both phenomenal!! I'm also super excited for Nicola Espallardo who will be covering Elphaba! Our 3rd ASIAN ELPHABA (Outside of Asia)!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!! Cannot wait for her to go on!!! I also love how all Boq's are now POC.

Simeon Truby as Dr. Dillamond [Continuing]: Really have no opinion.

Carina Gillespie as Nessarose (Glinda u/s) [Continuing]: I am SUPER surprised she stayed on. I really thought she would leave to spend more time with her family. (Especially considering she's been calling out quite a bit lately)

Nicholas McLean as Boq [Continuing]: No opinion on him either.

Sophie-Louise Dann as Madame Morrible [New]: To reiterate, I was really expecting a POC Morrible, so this surprised me... I'm sure Sophie-Louise will be a wonderful Morrible, but she wouldn't be my first choice.

Gary Wilmot as The Wizard [New]: I heard fantastic things about him in Anything Goes so I'm sure he'll be just as brilliant here.

Helen Woolf as Glinda [Returning]: I am surprised she returned this quickly from maternity leave. But I think she's a lovely Glinda, so I'm not complaining.

L*cie Jones as Elphaba [New]: While I am super excited that this is for the first fresh blood Elphaba in over a decade (Last fresh blood was Louise Dearman, although if you don't count her for playing Glinda then the last one was Rachel Tucker). Just like with Morrible, I was really expecting a POC Elphaba. I have to be quite honest though... Casting Lucie is a really safe choice. I mean she is such an uninspired choice... They could have gone with Emma Kingston, Charlotte Wakefield, Christina Modestou, Renée Lamb or someone exciting. I have nothing against Lucie, but she's a very safe choice. She has a pretty voice, but she sounds like every other 20/30 something woman belter these days. I think she'll deliver a good Elphaba, but it will be a safe Elphaba. She won't push the status quo as to what Elphaba could be, if that makes sense.

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“Give that back!”

~ #398 ~

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Interview with Carina Gillespie

New Interview: She may be returning to play the Wicked Witch of the East, but there's certainly nothing wicked about @carinagillespie 👸🏼💚

With an array of empowering roles under her belt, Carina Gillespie has just taken on her newest role as a mother of two! Ahead of her up-and-coming return to the Apollo Victoria, we’ve been lucky enough to ask Carina some questions about all things Motherhood and of course, the Emerald City!

Carina I just want to start by saying a huge congratulations on the new addition to your family! Frankie…

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2014

Carina Gillespie (Nessarose) & Richard Vincent (Boq)

1st UK/Ireland Tour Company; UK - Photo by Matt Crockett

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After listening to this I’ve decided that Scottish/Irish Boqs are my favourite. The accent just suits him so well

Wicked Witch of the East - Carina Gillespie Wicked Tour UK 14/03/14 in Cardiff. (more audios)

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WICKED, the smash hit musical that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, has added two extra 2.30pm shows this Christmas on Tuesday 26th December and Friday 29th December at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre.

Acclaimed as “the gravity-defying Wizard of Oz prequel” (Time Out London) and “a magical mystery tour through the fantasyland of Oz” (London Evening Standard), WICKED is already the 15th longest running show in London theatre history (and the 10th longest running musical), having recently surpassed the run of We Will Rock You. This “hugely popular show” (The Times) has now played almost 5000 performances, been seen by over 8.5 million people in London alone and won over 100 major awards around the world, including ten theatregoer-voted WhatsOnStage Awards (winning ‘Best West End Show’ on three occasions) and two Olivier Audience Awards in the UK.

WICKED currently stars Alice Fearn (Elphaba), Sophie Evans (Glinda), Bradley Jaden (Fiyero), Melanie La Barrie (Madame Morrible), Andy Hockley (The Wizard), Martin Ball (Doctor Dillamond), Sarah McNicholas (Nessarose), Jack Lansbury (Boq), Laura Pick (Standby for Elphaba) and Carina Gillespie & Maria Coyne (Standby for Glinda).

Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire that ingeniously re-imagines the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, WICKED tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

WICKED has music and lyrics by multi Grammy and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz (Godspell and Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted) and is based on the novel ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’ by Gregory Maguire and adapted for the stage by Winnie Holzman. Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento and the production is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.

WICKED is produced around the world by Marc Platt, Universal Stage Productions, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone. Executive Producer (UK) Michael McCabe.

Through its FOR GOOD programme and other charitable endeavours, WICKED is proud to support the remarkable work of the following UK charities: Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA); the Cybersmile Foundation; the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity; Stonewall’s ‘Education For All’ campaign; The Woodland Trust and the National Literacy Trust. Further information can be found at http://ift.tt/2cKJvGm

CHRISTMAS 2017 SCHEDULE: Saturday 23 December @ 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sunday 24 December – no performance Monday 25 December – no performance Tuesday 26 December @ 2.30pm & 7.30pm Wednesday 27 December @ 2.30pm & 7.30pm Thursday 28 December @ 7.30pm Friday 29 December @ 2.30pm & 7.30pm Saturday 30 December @ 2.30pm & 7.30pm

EXTRA SHOWS ADDED IN 2018: Thursday 15 February, Thursday 12 April, Thursday 16 August, Thursday 30 August and Thursday 25 October

All extra shows commence at 2.30pm

NOW BOOKING TO SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER 2018 Apollo Victoria Theatre, Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1LG

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20/01/17 (6th time)

Another day, another impulsive decision to see my favourite show!

I sort of explained this whole situation in my last one of these so I’ll try not to ramble up here so much this time...

So, the last time I went before Christmas was originally to see Katie Rowley Jones before she left (happy trails to her btw! Today she had her last shows! The end of an actual era; she’s been in the show for so long now it’ll feel wrong for her to not be there anymore), and if I got to see Rachel Tucker while I was there it would be an added bonus except I didn’t get to see either of them so I decided to go and see the show another time before the cast change date in the hope that I’d not only catch KRJ one last time, but so I might actually be able to see Rachel Tucker once in my life.

Lucky me because not only were they both at that show but I had every principle cast member except Suzie Mathers because of her holiday dates (which was still fine because I’ll be seeing her the next time I go; the first day of a new cast I doubt she won’t be there). Instead, this time around, I got her standby Carina Gillespie (more on her later)

I also didn’t go alone this time! I took an old friend to see it who had never seen the show before (which I kinda feel bad about since I got the ‘cheap’ Friday night tickets and they were basically all the way at the back of the dress circle. She didn’t mind though)

(Less rambley than the last one! Onto my thoughts!)

- Initial thoughts; Rachel Tucker’s voice is a lot deeper than I ever expected. I was never one of her fans when she was in the show her first time round (only because I never saw the show during that period of time) and I’d only ever heard a few audios from the main songs so I’d never heard her deliver lines and it took me by surprise considering that a lot of my Elphie’s have much higher pitch speaking voices.

- Her accent was also a bit weird sometimes, like some words sounded a bit Americanised, though I suspect that comes from her natural Irish accent and now her Broadway run.

- As I mentioned above, I actually got to see Katie one last time! I genuinely think that she was the best she’s ever been (from the times that I’ve seen her at least), her singing was on point and her acting was brilliant as always. All around, a true gem and she will be missed from the West End family of the show.

- I definitely saw Oliver Savile this time around, I thought he was an incredibly average Fiyero in all honestly. He was very good just not great (but that’s because I base all of my Fiyeros on Oliver Tompsett and no one has ever lived up to him for me)

- Anita Dobson still leaves something to be desired with her everything tbh :///

- Carina Gillespie was absolutely fabulous. One of the best Glindas acting wise for the emotional part of her character imo, she made some really nice characterisation choices that I enjoyed (she reminded me of Katie Rose Clarke acting wise who is one of my favs for that side of Glinda so yay!)

- In fact, I loved her acting so much I even have a separate bullet point about one of those acting decisions! I said her performance reminded me of KRC (who has become the staple Glinda who I measure every other Glinda’s acting on) and it’s because her delivery of the line “Why Miss Elphaba, look at you. You’re beautiful.” reminded me of why I fell in love with KRC’s Glinda in the first place. She didn’t deliver it in the usual ‘oh wow I’m so surprised you’re actually pretty underneath those glasses’ way instead she delivered it in the ‘oh wow you’re so beautiful and I can’t believe it took me this long to notice and I can’t believe you can’t see it’ way. Even when she delivered her line about the milk flowers it was so heartfelt that it made you actually believe that Glinda was trying to be a good friend unlike many other versions of that line that I’ve seen, and I just loved it

- She also had a beautiful singing voice, her high notes were spectacular as well as the notes in her lower register; it was wonderful to get the chance to experience it tbh

- I also really loved TG for this show. Carina did a really good job of making sure the audience knew the song was important as a character piece with actual character development instead of just being one of the throwaway songs that people forget about

- Tucker didn’t do any crazy riffs (she was obviously saving them for her final week and her final shows) but the few riffs that she did whip out I really loved

- Tucker did the low E and Carina did the low G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Carina’s range actually astounded me because her high notes were flawless and she still managed to get down to that low G, it was incredible)

- There wasn’t a note match at the start of NGD (but idk if that was ever a thing Tucker did, I only ever learned about it from Willemijn so)

- Carina was actually crying after FG :’’’(

- There were so many sound issues that even my friend noticed some of them! There were at least two dropped lines because the sound operator didn’t have the mics up at the right time (which is unacceptable, especially for a Friday night show). The mixing sounded really different as well, I wasn’t sure if it was just because I was so far back but the mixing sounded really off to me

- The subwoofers at the back of the dress circle are mad! I’ve never been far enough back to actually feel them rumble but I was this time and it surprised me the first time

- There was a late lighting cue going into the melting scene; Glinda’s supposed to have a gobo on her and it didn’t come onstage in time so I saw it move on (which has never happened before so I’m assuming it was a mistake)

- There were some really rude people in the dress circle. The worst offender was a woman in the row in front of me on her phone for essentially the whole thing; she left once to take a phone call, and then again near the end but didn’t come back. Then all kinds of people kept leaving to go to the toilet, people were leaving during the bows (which to me is so disrespectful to everyone working on the show and I hate it when people do that), and to top it all off, there was a young kid sitting in my row who kept asking questions at normal volume and her grandparents were answering her at normal volume AND rustling sweet wrappers etc. (again, disrespectful)

- Leaving you on a bittersweet thought: there is a Popular reprise in the score during TG! (see here) it happens around the point in the dialogue when Glinda says that she “can’t just leave when people are counting on [her]” (or something to that effect), and Fiyero says “No you can’t leave because you can’t resist this” meaning the feeling of people loving her and her being a well known public figure a.k.a. the popularity that comes with the job! It broke my heart when I realised it, I can’t believe I’ve never heard it before :’(

And for my next trip! Welcoming Willemijn Verkaik and Sue Kelvin back in style on Monday :)))

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Joe Thompson-Oubari: A little Boq photo dump. What a true pleasure it has been playing this munchkin over the past few weeks! 🤍

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Carina Gillespie is pregnant (again) meaning another year or so without her being in Wicked. I’m assuming Maria will stay until cast change and either continue or someone new will come in.

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Wicked

London 9th June 2017

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Wicked's new Witches

From the 24th of July 2017 a new cast will take over Wicked at the Apollo Victoria, London. 

The cast will be lead by Alice Fearn as Elphaba (who is currently the stand-by for Elphaba) and Sophie Evans as Glinda. 

The pair will be joined by Bradley Jaden as Fiyero (who will be reprising his role after playing Fiyero on the international tour), Melanie La Barrie as Madame Morrible, Andy Hockley as The Wizard and Laura Pick as the new stand-by for Elphaba.  They will be joining current cast members Martin Ball as Dr Dillamond, Sarah McNicholas as Nessarose and Carina Gillespie as the stand-by for Glinda. 

The rest of the cast will be made up by: Jennie Abbotts, Ashley Birchall, Nicole Carlisle, Nicholas Corree, Conor Crown, Kerry Enright, Aimee Fisher, Joseph Fletcher, Alexandra Grieson, Katy Hanna, Tom Andrew Hargreaves, Olivia Kate Holding, Claudia Kariuki, Will Lucas, James McHugh, Danny Michaels, Ellie Mitchell, Rosa O’Reilly, Matt Parsons, Alex Pinder, Sam Robinson, Paulo Teixeira, Samantha Thomas, Hannah Toy, Russell Walker, Sasha Wareham and Libby Watts. 

The current cast inlcuding Willemijn Verkaik and Suzie Mathers will perform their performance on Saturday the 22nd of July.  For more information or to book tickets to see either the new or current cast in action head to the official Wicked website.

Images courtesy of Google Images.

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2013

Carina Gillespie (Nessarose)

1st UK/Ireland Tour Company; UK - Photo by Matt Crockett

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Carina Gillespie is playing glinda tonight at wicked London.

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Popular - Carina Gillespie (standby) Wicked, Apollo Victoria Theatre 30/07/16. (more audios).

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WICKED, the smash hit musical that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, flies into its 12th year at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre today (Wednesday 27 September 2017). Recently acclaimed as “the must-see wonder of the West End” (Andrew Pierce, LBC Radio), the renowned musical will become the 15th longest running show in London theatre history on 19 October 2017, when it surpasses the run of We Will Rock You.

In celebration of the production’s birthday, a series of stunning new principal cast portraits, by photographer Darren Bell, have been released.

WICKED has already played more than 4500 performances, been seen by over 8 million people in London alone and won over 100 major awards around the world, including 10 theatregoer-voted WhatsOnStage Awards and two Olivier Audience Awards in the UK.

WICKED currently stars Alice Fearn (Elphaba), Sophie Evans (Glinda), Bradley Jaden (Fiyero), Melanie La Barrie (Madame Morrible), Andy Hockley (The Wizard), Martin Ball (Doctor Dillamond), Sarah McNicholas (Nessarose), Jack Lansbury (Boq), Laura Pick (Standby for Elphaba) and Carina Gillespie (Standby for Glinda).

While continuing its open-ended London run, the spectacular and multi record-breaking UK & Ireland touring production returns from 31 January 2018, visiting Bristol, Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Dublin, Sunderland, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester.

[See image gallery at http://ift.tt/1FpwFUw]

  Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire that ingeniously re-imagines the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, WICKED tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

WICKED has music and lyrics by multi-Grammy and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz and is based on the novel ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’ by Gregory Maguire and adapted for the stage by Winnie Holzman. Musical staging is by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento and the production is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello.

WICKED is produced around the world by Marc Platt, Universal Stage Productions, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone. Executive Producer (UK) Michael McCabe.

Apollo Victoria Theatre, Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1LG

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