Former Wicked star Sara Jean Ford takes on role in ‘Phantom of the Opera’

Sara Jean Ford, who played the role of  in the Chicago production of “Wicked: The Musical,” is returning to the stage in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theater in a special 10-week holiday re-installment of the production, which is scheduled to run Oct. 31-Jan. 5, 2008,. according to a story published on Broadway World’s Web site.

Ford, who undertstudied and played the roles of both Glinda and Nessarose in the Chicago cast of “Wicked” and made her New York debut in  as Luisa in the off-Broadway production of “The Fantasticks” - the world’s longest running musical. Now she will be playing the young soprano of Christine in “Phantom” - the object of the masked phantom’s desire, whom he takes under his wing and begins to shape into a new star employing all her natural talents and using his devious methods.
“I decided by the time I was 7 or 8 that I wanted to be a performer,” Ford said. “California is not like New York, where theater is at your fingertips—the theater that I had was in my head. I would take a cast recording and read the liner notes about each scene, press ‘play,’ listen to the song, and then press ‘pause’ and read everything again. My mom always said that when she bought me a recording of a musical, it was like buying me a book because it educated me.”

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