How Mary Kate Morrissey Became Elphaba in Wicked and What It’s Really Like Performing on Broadway
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Join Kate as she chats with Mary Kate Morrissey, Lead Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway. Mary Kate shares her journey from growing up in Pennsylvania to starring on Broadway, her time at Syracuse University, and how her grandfather’s Irish radio performances inspired her love for theater. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at her path with Wicked, the challenges of the role, and her thoughts on the new Wicked movie and the show’s lasting legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, guys? We got Mary Kate Morrissey on Post Run High today. For those listening, |
| 0:08.8 | Mary Kate is a Broadway actress. She is the Elphaba on Broadway. I'm so excited to sit down with Mary |
| 0:15.6 | Kate today because she's iconic. The wicked movie is coming out. It's perfect timing. And for those of you |
| 0:22.8 | that follow the running interview show, you might remember that Mary Kate, a little over a year ago, |
| 0:28.3 | was on one of my first ever episodes where we went and we toured the Gershwin Theater and we got |
| 0:34.1 | to know a little bit about Mary Kate. So a little bit of a delayed post run high, but we did run. |
| 0:40.3 | And a year later, we are now going to go deep and learn all about Mary Kate. |
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