'Wicked' Star Discusses Leading Role At Hippodrome
BALTIMORE (WJZ)--It's the story before the story of the Wizard of Oz."Wicked" is being performed before a packed Hippodrome this month.
Jessica Kartalija gives us a behind--or we should say "above"-- the scenes look.
Its the untold story of the witches of Oz with the wicked witch named Elphaba and Glinda, played by the darling Carrie St. Louis.
"All these shoes were custom made for me," she says.
Carrie calls it the role of a lifetime.
"It's just sort of been a dream my whole life," St. Louis said.
Behind the scenes, Carrie tells says the opening number is one of her favorites.
Kartalija: "What is that feeling like when you are sitting up there and you're anticipating the start of the show?"
"It's a good time for me to center myself and put myself in that place to start the next 3 hour journey I am about to take all these people on," St. Louis says.
Carrie says her bubble dress weighs about 40 pounds.
Kartalija: "How much fun that every night you go to work and you hold a wand and wear pretty dresses?"
"I know, it's kind of a crime. I'm like 'This is my job'. I feel very very lucky."
Performances of Wicked run through April 26 at The Hippodrome.
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