“Wicked” star Julia Murney releases new album “I’m Not Waiting”

Julia Murney, who stars as Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West in the Broadway musical “Wicked,” has recently released an album called “I’m Not Waiting.” The talented actess has starred in the Broadway production of “The Vagina Monologues” and made guest appearances on several TV shows, including “Sex and the City.” She is now making her debut solely as a music artist and said that things have been hectic since she started doing the “Wicked” tour in January since she was on the road for six months before that, according to a July interview by BroadwayBullet.com.  It’s also hard not to be exhausted after playing her role as Elphaba, she said. “Wicked has more – she’s just more energetically out there, Elphaba is, and so it just takes so much from the minute you hit stage, and just going, going, going, going, and then running, and changing your clothes, and running, and then going under the stage, and then running up the stairs, and carrying a broom,” Murney said. “It takes a lot. There’s not a lot of — when the shows over, there’s not a lot of: ‘Hey, where we going you guys, we going out?’ It’s like: ‘And goodnight everybody, I’m going home, have some tea.’”

“Wicked” tells the story of Elphaba and Glinda, the Good Witch of the East, and how the two opposite women became unlikely friends at sorcery school and went on to hate each other long before Dorothy dropped into the land of Oz. Based on the novel by Gregory MaGuire and the screenplay of Stephen Schwartz, “Wicked” has caught the attention of thousands of fans and continues to make its way to theaters across the country and worldwide. That phenomenon has been hard to explain for Murney, she said during the Broadway Bullet interview. “The show, for reasons that I don’t think anyone will ever be able to truly discern, caught lightening in a bottle,” Murney said. “And it’s interesting, because it’s not like a show like Beauty and the Beast, which is catered to kids; it’s the kind of a show where the adults are like: “We’re going to see Wicked, should we bring the kids?” And so little ones enjoy it, teenagers enjoy it, because it speaks to anyone who’s ever felt like an outcast or not enough, and then adults — I was just saying earlier, I think that it’s the kind of a show, people — it’s very easy for people to turn around, and make personal.”

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