#sarah o'connor

[west-end-wonder]

Wicked x Frozen: Crossover

A list of actresses that have performed a leading role in both ‘Wicked’ and ‘Frozen’:

Caissie Levy: Elphaba in Wicked (Los Angeles) and Elsa in Frozen (Broadway)

Patti Murin: Glinda in Wicked (US Tour) and Anna in Frozen (Broadway)

Alyssa Fox: Elphaba in Wicked (US Tour, Broadway) and Elsa in Frozen (Broadway)

McKenzie Kurtz: Glinda in Wicked (Broadway) and Anna in Frozen (Broadway, US Tour)

Caroline Bowman: Elphaba in Wicked (Broadway) and Elsa in Frozen (US Tour)

Courtney Monsma: Glinda in Wicked (Australia) and Anna in Frozen (Australia)

Jemma Rix: Elphaba in Wicked (Australia) and Elsa in Frozen (Australia)

Sarah O’Connor: Glinda in Wicked (UK Tour) and Anna in Frozen (Singapore)

Willemijn Verkaik: Elphaba in Wicked (Germany, Holland, Broadway, West End) and Elsa in Frozen (Germany)

Honorable mentions:

Sabrina Weckerlin: s/b Elphaba in Wicked (Germany) and Elsa in Frozen (Germany)

Laura Emmitt: u/s Elphaba in Wicked (West End) and u/s Elsa in Frozen (West End)

[superelphie]

Wicked UK: Two GOOD friends, two BEST friends. 🫧💚 #wickeduktour 📸 @/dannykaan

[laurapick]

The sensational trio that is Carl Man, Laura Pick and Sarah O'Connor - a wonderfully wicked cast!

📸: Instagram

[sixqueendom]

Maddi as Elphaba 😍💚

[sarahoconnorxx]

third wicked uk tour 🩵

march 17, 2024

📍 birmingham

📸 showswithjess

[raven-curls]

X

[curtvilescomic]

[doomsayersunited]

[victoriously-wicked]

SO... I SAW WICKED. I CANNOT FUCKING EXPLAIN HOW MAJESTIC IT WAS!!!!

OF COURSE, GLINDA IS MY BABYGIRL, AS ALWAYS. AND SEEING HER IN PERSON JUST SOLIDIFIED MY WEIRD ATTACHMENT TO HER EVEN MORE. SARAH O'CONNOR, YOU ARE A FUCKING LEGEND, COMEDIC GENIUS, AND YA MADE ME CRY WITH THAT SINGLE LITTLE "ELPHIE..?" AFTER SHE MELTS. AND THAT INCREDIBLE RIFF YOU DID DURING 'FOR GOOD'?! I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT-

OH MA GAWD, EXPERIENCING LAURA PICK SINGING 'DEFYING GRAVITY' AND 'NO GOOD DEED'?!?!?! I HAD LITERALLY FORGOTTEN HOW TO BREATHE. EFFORTLESS OPT-UPS AND RIFFS GALORE. I ADORE HER. AND THIS WAS THE TOURING CAST'S FINAL EVER SHOW, SO DURING 'AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE', SHE SAID "FOR THE LAST TIME, I FEEL WICKED" AND THAT JUST MADE ME SMILE.

I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT 'WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST' IS AN UNDERRATED SONG, UGH THE FIRST FEW "ALL OF MY LIFE I'VE DEPENDED ON YOU" LINES JUST SATISFY MY BRAIN IN A WAY I CAN'T FATHOM.

I'M SORRY BUT WHO TF WAS PLAYING CHISTERY BECAUSE MY DUDE, YOU MADE ME CACKLE. TELL ME WHY HE WAS LITERALLY JUST CHILLING OUT, NONCHALANTLY HANGING OFF THE BIG SET PIECES FOR NO REASON IN THE BACKGROUND WHILST GELPHIE WERE CHATTING WITH THE WIZARD HAHAHA?!

ALSO, THE ENSEMBLE WERE KILLING IT, THE AMOUNT OF TIMES MY EYES WERE DRIFTING AWAY FROM A SCENE TO JUST STARE AT THEM IN THE BACKGROUND... WAS UNREAL.

BUT SLIME TUTORIALS ON YOUTUBE DO NOT GIVE NEARLY ENOUGH JUSTICE TO THE INCREDIBLE COSTUMES. MOST NOTABLY, DURING THE OZDUST SCENE, THE ENSEMBLE ARE ALL IN THESE SPUNKY AND GORGEOUSLY ECCENTRIC, YET SIMPLISTIC BLACK AND WHITE OUTFITS, BUT OUR MAIN CHARACTERS ARE DRESSED IN DISTINCT COLOURS AND OUTFIT STYLES?! AND THE EMERALD CITY OUTFITS WERE SO AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING. THE WHOLE THING WAS VISUALLY STUNNING TO LOOK AT.

UMM... SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY GELPHIE WERE HOLDING ONTO EACH OTHER AND SWAYING TO THE MUSIC AS THEY SUNG TO ONE ANOTHER IN 'FOR GOOD'?! BECAUSE THAT FUCKING BROKE ME.

CURTAIN CALL WAS AMAZING. IT LASTED LIKE, FIFTEEN MINUTES! THAT'S BECAUSE IT WAS THE FINAL SHOW EVER ON THE TOUR, AND SO THEY BROUGHT OUT ALL THE BACKSTAGE CREW TO TAKE A BOW TOO, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS REALLY AMAZING TO BE THERE TO SEE.

SO THAT'S EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW. IF I COME UP WITH MORE, I'LL JUST COME BACK LATER WITH MORE TO RANT ABOUT.

Dunno how I forgot to mention this but a couple days ago I found out I'M GONNA BE SEEING WICKED NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!! LIKE ON STAGE!!! NOT A SLIME TUTORIAL!!!!!!!! BRING ON THE GELPHIE!!!!!!

[azaleasallalong]

thanks a bunch for your help Dottie you've been an absolute angel. incidentally, WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 1 AND 3 AM?

[andreycoded]

Troye Sivan in One Of Your Girls Music Video (2023) Britney Spears in Stronger Music Video (2000) Pussycat Dolls in Buttons Music Video (2006) Lady Gaga in Beyonce's Video Phone Music Video (2009) Sinead O'Connor in Nothing Compares 2 U Music Video (1990) SJP in Sex and the City S3EP1 (2000) Cindy Crawford in Revlon Unforgettable Ad (1990) Rihanna on stage in Köln (2011) Britney Spears in I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman (2001)

[girl4music]

Xabrielle VS Spuffy: Correlations between Xena’s ‘Fins, Femmes & Gems’ and Buffy’s ‘Something Blue’

You know they re-wrote the script 48 hours out before going into production for ‘Fins, Femmes & Gems’ from Gabrielle being obsessed with sexual positions to Gabrielle being obsessed with herself - but the funniest thing about that is they still had Xena obsessed with fishing but Xena never needs Gabrielle around her as much as she does when she’s not obsessed with that.

“She’s come for me. I knew she would. She can’t live without me for a minute. Not that I could blame her.”

Obviously it’s a metaphor but I still think it’s hilarious.

The way it comes across is that Xena is obsessed with Gabrielle as well as Gabrielle… But it’s just hidden behind the metaphor of “fishing” together. And they always pull that one out in this show: they’re “fishing”.

And so my question is - if Gabrielle’s apparent obsession in the original script was sexual positions rather than just an obsession with Xena… Why is it Xena that’s the main factor there? Obviously it’s because the “non-spell” parts of them still came through just as it does in the re-written script for the actual episode.

I just found it funny how Renee immediately jumped to “being in love with Xena” when the obsession in the original script was just about sexual positions.

Why is Xena even relevant to that?

And in the re-written script, if the obsession is fishing.

Why is Gabrielle relevant to that?

The answer is because they’re already in love with each other and they’re the main factor because that’s who the obsession informs regardless of the spell cast.

In this episode, it’s not a direct spell meant to make the one under it fall in love with anyone. It’s just making them have an obsession about something or someone.

But with Xena and Gabrielle in both the original and re-written script,.. the main factor is each other regardless what they’re apparently “obsessed” with because they’re not actually under a spell with each other.

They’re for real and so the “obsessions” they have are only so desirable because of that reason. Each other.

The same way in BtVS’s ‘Something Blue’ the spell Willow cast was “why don’t they just get married?” and not “why don’t they just fall in love with each other?”

It’s just a natural consequence because they’re for real.

It’s really about removing the restrictions/resistances to the characters’ sexual and emotional inhibitions. Meaning if you give them a reason to gravitate towards each other that does not directly mean “I chose this”, they’ll go for it because then they won’t feel any guilt.

Why would they? It’s just the “spell”.

So with ‘Fins, Femmes & Gems’ both in the original and re-written scripts, the “spell” isn’t the driving force of what’s pulling Xena and Gabrielle towards each other. It’s the excuse. The driving force is their real love for each other and romantic attraction and unresolved tension because that’s what’s really bothering them.

So depending on how they approached it - it wouldn’t necessarily be an insult to queer people if they were allowed to produce the episode with the original script so long as they made it clear the “spell” wasn’t the main factor just as they did with the re-written script.

There are several times in the episode where their respective “obsessions” were completely forgotten about in the midst of the crisis of losing each other.

Obviously it’s because each other mattered more to them than some daft obsession spell they were under - of which only appears to be desirable to them because they have each other to be “obsessed” with them for.

It’s a metaphor… The “obsession” is really each other and I think that would have been the case no matter which script they decided to go with for the episode.

If Gabrielle was obsessed with sexual positions instead of herself. If Xena was still obsessed with fishing. So long as they still approached it the way they did in the re-written script - I think it would have been totally fine because even in the re-written script, it was pretty clear that these “obsessions” weren’t why they were so,.. so

MARRIED. That’s the only word I can use that justifies what’s going on in that episode. Their need for each other to be around because they’re already married.

Therefore, I think the comparison to BtVS’s ‘Something Blue’ is dead on. Because Spuffy don’t act that way because the spell forced them to get married. They act that way because they already behave as if they are.

It’s just more so because “it’s not us”/“we’re forced”.

‘Fins’ is exactly the same. Behind the metaphor or the excuse - it’s just 2 suppressed idiots in love that can let go of ALL sexual and emotional inhibitions and just be happy because in those moments they’re just “Xena” and “Gabrielle” and the plot/seasonal arc can TAKE A SEAT to allow for some crucial character stuff that needs to take some precedence after what happens.

Those kind of “love spell” episodes are worth watching because you are seeing what’s for real there with them.

It’s just so exaggerated because it’s a release for them.

The spell doesn’t actually matter. But without the spell as the excuse - they’d never go there with each other.

They’d never be brave enough to because of all the other shit going on around them or they’re enemies.

But it’s like when real romantic feelings are there - none of that is even a focus. None of that is even relevant.

Only each other. That’s how I see ‘Fins’ and ‘Something Blue’ because the spell cast is really only the metaphor.

What’s the real deal is why the metaphor is necessary.

The desire for each other and unresolved tension there.

If you can show that that’s the driving force and the main factor - then any “spell” episode - be it love, obsession or anything else - is successful storytelling and - if approached well - successful representation.

There’s major correlations between these two episodes because the “spell” is not why the characters behave as they do. But it is the reason why they would allow it in the first place and why they go way over the top with it.

As far as the characters are concerned - it’s a release of everything that’s pent up inside of and between them.

When you use a “spell” episode like that - and that ends up being what is interpreted out of it - it is successful. I mean technically Spuffy is just a “b-plot” of ‘Something Blue’ whereas Xabrielle is an “a-plot of ‘Fins’ - but nevertheless - what stands out is their odd behaviour.

It’s what people remember of the episodes themselves. But what’s not communicated is that behaviour is real because “we’re under a spell”/“we can’t be blamed”.

Yes, well that only stands when the spell is directly a love spell on each other. If it’s not - then it’s just void and the behaviour is a natural consequence of what is not being acknowledged and addressed in both the relationship and in the individual. So it’s a release for it.

In ‘Fins’ Xena figures out that the obsessions they had had nothing to do with the spell put on them but rather what it was that was bothering them deep down that they needed to get in touch with. It was about insight. Now if they were allowed to use the original script, then that insight could well have been that they were in love and were not letting themselves express it frequently. In that sense, it could have actually been a proper coming out episode that was very sincere in its intentional goal despite the “spell” factor because… I mean… I might be totally wrong about this but I don’t think anyone who watches ‘Something Blue’ - especially not on rewatches - believes that Willow’s spell was forcing Spuffy to kiss, so I don’t think that the spell in ‘Fins’ would have forced Xabrielle to “experiment with sexual positions” either - especially not if the obsession was really about insight because then the insight is that enough was enough. Either they come out to themselves and each other in how they really feel for each other and what to do about expressing those feelings physically or leave each other. And we all know there is absolutely no way the creators - not these creators - would have ever done the latter because despite not knowing the best way to go about handling it, they were all always on the side of the fans and shippers which is the only real striking difference between Xena’s ‘Fins’ and Buffy’s ‘Something Blue’.

Practically everybody in the writer’s room was on-board with Xena and Gabrielle. Not everyone was with Spuffy. But the jokes on them really because it was ‘Something Blue’ that even made Spuffy a twinkle in anyone’s eye because we had never seen either character so happy.

You know sometimes things don’t work out the way you want them. Other times they’re just a happy accident. A closer look at both Xena’s ‘Fins, Femmes & Gems’ and Buffy’s ‘Something Blue’ provides that of something which is missing in the TV art/entertainment of today.

FUN. CAMP. RELEASE. The other side of the spectrum where the plot/seasonal arc is not so important then. But the character representation and development is.

[therafanatics]

RAFAEL CASAL & MAYA HAWKE - WILDCAT / MOVIE HD SCREENCAPS (2024)

Rafael Casal and Maya Hawke in "Wildcat" movie in 2023.

Images by: Maya Hawke Fan

[laurapick]

massive W for Gelphiyero shippers

📸: lightbanditphotography

[backinthebottle52]

Rush (2023)

[sarahoconnorxx]

press night at in birmingham! 💚

march 6, 2024