Sometimes, if an actor is lucky, the role she is playing reflects the kind of person she aspires to be off stage. Lencia Kebede, the first full-time Black Elphaba in the Broadway company of Wicked, puts it more poetically, declaring in her program bio that the green witch represents nothing less than an opportunity "to continue living out her soul's purpose on the Gershwin [Theatre] stage." In a Broadway debut perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PM on July 8, 2025