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Willemijn and Chantal's relationship and Chantal according to Willemijn
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Willemijn Verkaik talent list
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I’ve been staying away from the Broadway discussion boards for one very good reason: the unfair criticism Willemijn has been receiving for (probably) her opening night performance in Wicked on Broadway, saying her accent was a mess or that she should “know the words” by now. Let me set some things straight because this has been bugging me all evening.
Willemijn has been playing Elphaba since 2007. That’s a LOT of performances, none of which were in English up until the 12th of February 2013 when she made her Broadway debut. English is NOT her native language, and no matter how good she is at speaking it, she is not used to singing the score of Wicked in English yet. She’s had to un-learn the score and script she knows so well in Dutch and re-learn it all in English. That’s not easy. As far as I know Willemijn only had two weeks to rehearse (right after the Dutch production closed), which is not a lot of time at all. She still gets nervous, believe it or not. Can you even imagine the pressure of being the one new person in a cast? Taking over a role you are so well known for instead of originating it? Singing that role in a totally different language, and performing on a dream stage for the first time in your life after only two weeks of rehearsal time? She’s not a machine, people, she’s human. And she still sounded AMAZING AS ALWAYS from what I heard. The people who’ve been saying these things don’t have to like her portrayal of course, everyone has their preferences. But to judge someone so unfairly without doing their fucking research is absolutely something I can’t stand, especially when most of them have only heard an opening night bootleg. |
Lets gather a bunch of quotes showing why you should all adopt willemijn verkaik as your new role model
"If Elphaba can, I can do, too!" ~ Willemijn Verkaik
A Message To Gravity "yea you stay the hell away from me :) " -Willemijn Verkaik |
From: Willemeow, an anon she got on Tumblr:
I'm new to the verkaikings and i was wondering where the quote about 'it's always great to drug your kids' is from? haha :) - HAHA no problem, I get this question a lot omg like is this how the fandom is defined truly it’s all downhill from here my dear nonnie but anyway Basically, my friend and fellow verkaiking Broadwill went to one of Willemijn’s shows in Scheveningen (when she was still playing Elphaba there). At stagedoor there was an English guy and his kids, and he was talking to her while she was signing for him. He said “I dragged my kids out here to see you” because he was from England, but Willemijn thought he said drugged, so, without a single change of tone or expression and without stopping from signing, she says, like it’s the most normal fucking thing “always great to drug your kids” and to this day she still thinks that’s what he said no one corrected her "You just have to know that you will always get up again. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you will. And that’s what’ll make you stronger. That’s what happened to me"
~ Willemijn Verkaik "People always tell me I’m too modest, and that I’m allowed to tell myself now and then that I’m good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now." - Willemijn Verkaik “I love to walk in the forest and take my bike. I love to watch the little birdies. I’m a green person.” -Willemijn Verkaik "For me, if I don’t know how to express it with words, I do it with music." - Willemijn Verkaik |