{"id":2211,"date":"2013-04-25T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2013-04-25T20:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:56:52","slug":"wicked-broadways-cast-update-lindsay-mendez-is-next-elphaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-broadways-cast-update-lindsay-mendez-is-next-elphaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Broadway&#8217;s Cast Update &#8211; Lindsay Mendez is Next Elphaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willemijn Verkaik, the current Elphaba in Wicked Broadway will play her final performance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-gershwin-theatre.html\">Gershwin Theatre<\/a> on May 26. <strong>Lindsay Mendez will take over the role beginning May 28.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketnetwork.com\/ticket\/wicked-new-york-ny-events.aspx?kbid=2864\">SAVE $10 when you spend $350 or more, Use code TICK13<br \/>\nBuy Wicked New York NY Tickets Online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Mendez made her Broadway debut as Jan in the 2007 revival of Grease. She then appeared in Everyday Rapture with Sherie Rene Scott before breaking out as the \u201cBless the Lord\u201d soloist in the 2011 revival of Schwartz\u2019s Godspell. Her off-Broadway credits include originating the role of Rose in Dogfight (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Everyday Rapture and The Marvelous Wonderettes. Mendez also appeared in concert and on the recording of Ryan Scott Oliver\u2019s 35mm: A Musical Exhibition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2212\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-new-york-ny-tickets.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2212\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2212\" title=\"Lindsay Mendez to Join Wicked Broadway as Elphaba\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lindsay-Mendez-Wicked.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay Mendez to Join Wicked Broadway as Elphaba\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lindsay-Mendez-Wicked.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lindsay-Mendez-Wicked-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay Mendez to Join Wicked Broadway as Elphaba<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mendez has previously worked with both the composer and director of Wicked, having appeared in the 2011 Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz&#8217;s Godspell, and, more recently, giving a breakout performance in the world premiere musical, Dogfight, staged by Wicked director Joe Mantello.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She joins the Wicked Broadway cast that currently includes Katie Rose Clarke as Glinda, Kyle Dean Massey as Fiyero, Randy Danson as Madame Morrible, Adam Grupper as The Wizard, Catherine Charlebois as Nessarose, F. Michael Haynie as Boq and John Schiappa as Dr. Dillamond.<\/p>\n<p>Wicked is a sanding production on Broadway at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-gershwin-theatre.html\">Gershwin Theatre<\/a> &#8211; 222 West 51st St, New York, NY 10019. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-new-york-ny-tickets.html\">Buy Wicked Broadway Tickets Online<\/a>, SAVE $10 on ALL ORDERS of $350+, Use code: TICK13 at Checkout!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willemijn Verkaik, the current Elphaba in Wicked Broadway will play her final performance at Gershwin Theatre on May 26. Lindsay Mendez will take over the role beginning May 28. SAVE $10 when you spend $350 or more, Use code TICK13 Buy Wicked New York NY Tickets Online Lindsay Mendez made her Broadway debut as Jan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1004,166,842,841],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}