off each other, and I think the audience really felt that. Ballroom when she’s got that hat on, “That’s the brilliant thing with live and all the kids are laughing - it’s theatre; yes, it’s the same thing, but horrible, and I can go straight back to it’s not. You still get such a different a time at primary or high school when I buzz every night; every show is can relate to Elphaba, that I can bring different because every audience is up from my own life.” different. ‘No Good Deed’ also felt When it comes to a favourite really good last night, but it changes moment in Wicked, even after so many for me all the time, because I’m always performances, Jemma finds it different every day. Some things will fit impossible pin down one definitive well and I feel really connected.” answer. Those of us who follow Wicked on “It changes every night. Lucy and I Facebook and YouTube were quite have so much fun in the cat fight stunned by the rock star scenes at the scene, and last night the audience stage door on the closing night of made this response that they never Wicked in Manila. Just what was that made before - they all went ‘Oooh’ like? and Lucy and I almost lost it because it “It was insane. We felt like we were really took us by surprise. We were really, really famous, like Katy Perry or having a lot of fun, delivering the lines any of those people feel any day, but with little bit more sass, and playing for us it was insane. You can’t get the (Continued from page 11)
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smile off my face even thinking about it now. “They just loved the show, and from the moment that we did publicity there, which was before Wicked had technically arrived, the response had just been such excitement, and so much love. I can’t put into words how that really affects you. You’re bringing this show to these people, and they’re so appreciative. They were so kind and so loving. “Every show there was just magic. They were so responsive; they loved everything about the show. You appreciate that as a performer because you get so much back. People don’t realize how much you actually get from an audience, and we just felt that so much. It was a really wonderful time for us.”