Broadway Stars from the Hit Musical Wicked Fill in for an Ailing Kristin Chenoweth
Broadway Stars from the Hit Musical Wicked
Fill in for an Ailing Kristin Chenoweth
·
Kristin Chenoweth is not able to
perform due to illness
·
Megan Hilty
and Julia Murney, who have each performed in Wicked on
Broadway, join Steven Reineke and the Pops for a
fantastic program of diva showstoppers
CINCINNATI—Due to illness, celebrated actress and singer Kristin
Chenoweth is not able to perform as scheduled for the November 13, 14
and 15 Cincinnati Pops Orchestra performances at Music Hall.
Megan
Hilty and Julia Murney,
who have performed the signature roles of Glinda and Elphaba respectively in the Broadway hit musical Wicked,
have graciously agreed to step in and perform in a program dubbed “Wicked
Divas” with Steven Reineke and the Pops.
The three concerts will take place as originally scheduled.
After a year as standby (during which she made her Broadway
debut opposite Tony winner Idina Menzel),
Megan Hilty took over as principal Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked in May
2005, and later joined the show’s touring company, performing in Portland,
Seattle and Toronto. Ms. Hilty then joined Eden
Espinosa as lead in Wicked's standing Los
Angeles production at the Pantages Theatre in
Hollywood in 2007. She also starred in 9 to 5: The Musical on
Broadway.
Ms. Hilty has made guest appearances
on numerous televisions series: Shark, The Closer, CSI, Desperate
Housewives, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, and Ugly Betty. On that
series, she performed as Glinda, alongside Eden
Espinosa's Elphaba, in an episode entitled
"Something Wicked this Way Comes." She also provided the singing
voice for Snow White in Shrek The Third and the voice of Miss Lee in the
Disney film The Secret of the Magic Gourd.
For more information, visit www.meganhiltyonline.com.
Julia Murney last appeared on
Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked after playing the role on the national tour for which she
received an Acclaim Award. Other New York credits include Lennon, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Drama Desk nomination), The Vagina Monologues, A Class Act, Saved, Crimes of the Heart, First Lady Suite, and Time and Again (Lucille Lortel
nomination). Among her television credits are 30 Rock, Sex and the City, Ed, NYPD Blue, all three Law and Orders and “about a gazillion
voiceovers.” A Syracuse University graduate, her recordings include the
original cast albums of The Wild Party and A Class Act, the Grammy nominated Actor’s Fund
Benefit of Hair and her first
solo album, I’m Not Waiting which is
available on Sh-K-Boom records.
