OBSESSED!: Eden Espinosa's Challenging Auditions (and Headshots!)

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www.playbill.com/video www.playbill.com/video Broadway's Eden Espinosa rose to fame as the green-skinned Elphaba in Stephen Schwartz's hit musical "Wicked." With some "crazazy" old headshots (she looks older then than she does now!) and her new CD "Look Around" in tow, Espinosa joins Seth in studio. They chat about the complications of securing roles during her early days working for Disneyland and then demonstrate a signature riff she created that became a permanent part of "The Wizard and I." After Espinosa explains the difficulties of auditioning for "Les Miz," Seth challenges her with his own particular arrangement of "I Dreamed a Dream."

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@xavierdallenmusicuniverse6304 4 года назад

Eden’s F#5 “Things I’ve never felt” Riff is now used by Vosk,Fearn,Tucker,etc

@wickedlygravitational 4 года назад

Seth roasting her headshots continues to make my life

@MrEricrockinout 10 лет назад

If that riff was in I dreamed a dream, Susan Boyle wouldn't exist.

@Smartpplz161 10 лет назад

I keep playing the part where she sings "voices soft as thunder" over and over again. Ughhhh so good!

@YutasTrapQueen 7 лет назад

Smartpplz161 7:23

@porchcatproductions9931 6 лет назад

I heard her character Cassandra sing on tonight’s Tangled episode and I was like woah that girl can sing. I had thought that she sounded like Idina Menzel and then googled her and found that she played Elphaba! I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of her before! I might even like her Elphaba more than Idina’s! Bravo!!

@estelaramos9478 5 лет назад

This was just a whole roasting session on Eden…

@melanieparus2865 6 лет назад

dudeeee her wizard and i riff thooo. it gave me life.

@PaulTheillusionist 10 лет назад

Eden is such an amazing Elphaba!

@jordannickel-dubin9851 10 лет назад

She was the Elphaba when I saw the show, probably 9 years ago.

@joiedejunelle1 9 лет назад

eden is absolutely AMAZING. her riffs just can't be beat

@pu_ljangnannn2862 4 года назад

Still, I only heard Cassandra. I have missed her already

@Ryuu_Helluva_Hazbin_Fan 4 года назад

SAME! NICE TO MEET ANOTHER FAN!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

@varian7987 4 года назад

yea

@bennymasetti1219 3 года назад

@@Ryuu_Helluva_Hazbin_Fan oh yesss

@innermanchurian2802 3 года назад

really wish they could make a cassandra story line some day

@WHATTHEBUCKSHOW 9 лет назад

she is so lovely!

@ACIDICcitric 9 лет назад

Agreed she is marvelous

@tipofmytongue1024 7 лет назад

You are lovely

@shinydavidhowell 10 лет назад

I love Seth's reactions! And Eden's riff for The Wizard and I makes so much sense - it puts the top note of the phrase on a syllable which actually suits a high belt note, I'm warming to it as a better point of emphasis than Idina's leap on "things," and it's no higher than Idina's riff at the end of Defying Gravity anyway. I've taken Eden's high belting almost for granted, but what startled me is how much she opens her mouth on the low notes in I Dreamed A Dream. Makes me suspect she could easily go even lower.

@reggieblack5062 7 лет назад

actually it's a half step higher but who's listening?

@joshietoshie 6 лет назад

Actually Reggie is right she riffs to an F# and the highest note in defying gravity is an F so... sorry about it

@sydneyorton1375 8 лет назад

She was the Elphaba I had when I saw Wicked. She was amazing!

@SoulTribute17 7 лет назад

Lucky! She's my favorite Elphaba.

@Theonethatgotaway1234 10 лет назад

I literally applauded.

@actorben 8 лет назад

I loved her as Maureen in, "Rent!"

@thomas965o 2 года назад

no no, that’s Idina Menzel!

@oskarschell8567 2 года назад

@@thomas965o Eden did that too. The best Maureen to me.

@thomas965o 2 года назад

@@oskarschell8567 my mistake!

@lunamoon2005 9 лет назад

this proves she's not to old for the wicked movie :)

@prp134 5 лет назад

I met her in Chicago at the stage door for Falsettos. Her voice is amazing and she is soo nice.

@Bennome 3 года назад

My first Elphaba 💚 Summer 2006 NYC

@liameg528 10 лет назад

Actually heard this Wizard and I riff in the show over the weekend and got SO excited because I knew the backstory!

@rlopez2626 9 лет назад

Former classmate! Eden always had that big smile! Canyon High!

@musikmadchen3 10 лет назад

I love the story about how Eden developed that riff. I had no idea it was she who developed it; I've heard her sing it, but I'm more used to Jemma Rix singing it! Beautiful singing for 'I Dreamed A Dream'.

@destinationdarren 10 лет назад

Does anyone else now listen to recordings of I Dreamed A Dream and expect it to just keep going up the octave like Eden does here?!?! Maybe I've listened to this to much!

@kellyodonnell9236 8 лет назад

THAT RIFF THOUGH 5:25

@cookieaddictions 9 лет назад

But I like her headshots...

@commentsandviews2723 5 лет назад

She voices Cassandra

@WerdnaNiraehs 4 года назад

I kinda wish Broadway let their performers have more leeway with the vocals. I think it lets people put their own personal spin on their character.

@Disturbednum1fan 4 года назад

in walks Jessica vosk, using Edens riff and is a legend now... its crazy how 1 stand in layed the ground work for somone years later to catapult into the limelight

@destinationdarren 10 лет назад

That octave-ending is Esponiscious!

@aliciarosario8236 5 лет назад

Jessica Vosk does this riff (from what ive heard in videos) and it is BEAUTIFUL

@dugruos 9 лет назад

the same riff that Donna Vivino uses! love it!

@Mazzaranne89 10 лет назад

She is amazing!! I want her voice

@chocolateluvergirl16 10 лет назад

I love her laughhh. Omg...

@hamishmccolm6870 9 лет назад

I heard the Eden Riff in the current Sydney production :) gave me tingles

@friendcherry 10 лет назад

Eden is just amazing

@princepeterwolf 10 лет назад

I LOVE EDEN so much!!

@bentleyodom7351 4 года назад

5:31 me to my family when i force them to watch anything theater related

@LadyHawke78 8 лет назад

Oh, Seth, honey. What exactly do you have against a Low-E???!? XD (In my world, an E3 scares me MUCH less than a F#5!!) ;)

@natkg2010 10 лет назад

THAT NOTE!!! Omg

@cassandrafaithstrand9372 3 года назад

oh god her laugh fits, adorable

@jennhiemstra 4 года назад

I find it ironic that they told her that she was too young for Belle...when in literal Disney canon, Pocahontas is older. Even if she weren’t LITERALLY older, she always had the older soul vibe.

@ZippyLove09 9 лет назад

And now every Elphaba has put I'm Not That Girl on their album LOL. I'd like to see her do The Wizard and I on one ;)

@peterjarvis7335 2 года назад

I wish I could go back and see both Idina Mendel and Eden Espinoza in wicked. I hear that Idina was a tremendous Elphaba!

@MrHeyBradley 10 лет назад

Love Eden!

@NatasciaDiazDive 9 лет назад

I just fully LAUGHED OUT LOUD. The brilliance. Can't stop it.

@benjiakre-hill5961 8 лет назад

Don't ever start the end of Wiz 'n I and deny us the finale! My world is upside down! Gimme the CADENCE!

@eliocosmos 7 лет назад

Benjamin Akre calm down, you ARE OUT OF CONTROL!!!!

@xavierdallenmusicuniverse6304 3 года назад

5:26 F#5 But, if it's a semitone higher, its a G5 If it was a 2nd semitone higher it's G#5

@Elphaba88 10 лет назад

love you EDEN so happy i met you at the 10th ANN. performance of WICKED! :-)

@tillyboos 9 лет назад

She is SO adorable! I

@davidii3895 8 лет назад

SETH is a musical genius!!

@kiraknapp1772 10 лет назад

Oh my god... I love her so much. I want to see her live!!!

@ForcesofRandomness 4 года назад

Incredible incredible

@jimbo91262 4 года назад

I recall a few Amazing rifs she executed in Rent. Those moments are always some of my favorites. Very beautiful, fun, and gifted lady!

@adamG2001 4 года назад

When the F#5 sounds better than the C5!!!!!! She’s incredible

@lucysue5483 5 лет назад

I get to see her in March in Falsettos and I'm so excited !

@jovibaby 6 лет назад

I LOVE how seth is as extra as my friends, we're always belting everything for no reason

@xsarabearx1 10 лет назад

Eden is my favorite Elphaba. hahah Ariel on Broadway went to my all time favorite Broadway woman Sierra Boggess!

@inplainsight131 10 лет назад

I love how he gets so frustrated.

@lukeworsham1757 5 лет назад

Best Maureen 100%

@Evega214 2 месяца назад

Eden is magical. Still×

@destinationdarren 10 лет назад

I would pay just to listen to her practice scales!

@sportsmediaamerica 5 лет назад

Cute vid! Fun!! Met this lovely lady in Nashville during Evita with Studio Tenn.

@suppohkram 9 лет назад

This is so hilarious and wonderful in one AH-MAH-ZING package!!!

@That_Ozian 4 года назад

An amazing Trina on the falsettos tour!!

@crimegirl1139 8 лет назад

best part is Eden saying "I hate you" at 5:57 😂

@BeutifulLifeLS 10 лет назад

LOVE

@RaminDaae 10 лет назад

That scale! Oh my God! I couldn't stop laughing.

@MikeA15206 4 года назад

It's a great album.

@sophiaa128 5 лет назад

okay i gotsta go

@cassandrafaithstrand9372 3 года назад

I love Edie’s(that’s my nickname for her)Hannah Montana styled haircut

@fletcherhc653 4 года назад

Wow!

@StripesofShay 10 лет назад

EDEN CAN I BE YOU

@hannahedithrose 9 лет назад

She SHOULD play Fantine!

@sweeney60 10 лет назад

Anyone else think she could be Idina's sister?

@heyitsrachelXD 7 лет назад

dang, I can't even belt the last note of "shame" in the normal version 😩🙈😝

@stone8193 6 лет назад

Why 😨 ? That's low af

@minajahan5313 10 лет назад

That was hilarious

@julientan2318 10 лет назад

On the "Shame" scale, I would end it with the D instead of E flat (or another suggestion would be E if the next bar is raised a tone) on the B flat chord, just because E flat chord is coming up after and end it on E flat would bring the whole next verse to an octave higher which does not go with the song and/or lyrics.

@ezekielg444 10 лет назад

the best!! hahaha

@emmapartin1513 9 лет назад

Last riff was so underpitch those first four notes dannggg

@reggieblack5062 7 лет назад

actually she just wasn't warmed up. i'd like to hear you belt that high better than her. i'll wait.

@stone8193 6 лет назад

Reggie Black that high? Lol?? That's not even remotely high for even a contralto

@YutasTrapQueen 7 лет назад

7:22

@YutasTrapQueen 7 лет назад

You're welcome

@diggerhoward4078 10 лет назад

A melody change is not a riff. Hm. It is fierce as hell though.

@natefame 8 лет назад

It's spectacular of course, but it's not technically a "riff". More like a vocal flourish or just added note. If she had done a mellisam or a couple notes on one vowel, it'd be a riff/run.

@Vannesport 7 лет назад

Wow!!! Wow!!! Is she human????

@darthilli 4 месяца назад

😂 “for realsies”

@themeltedchocolate 10 лет назад

Oh Seth, I love you so, I only wish I didn't have trouble following you because you talk so darn fast, man!

@jazminestryder 10 лет назад

and I thought defying gravity was hard...... lol

@allthatjazzspaz95 10 лет назад

But julia murney recorded I'm not that girl!!

@gebruederflausch 8 лет назад

😂😂😂

@Sam-jb2hn 8 лет назад

what is seth saying at 1:43-1:45?

@panchish 7 лет назад

"i thought the reason why they made you pocahontas was because you were an ethnic-ess(?)"

@Sam-jb2hn 7 лет назад

thank u

@functionoflightone 7 лет назад

I actually think her short hair looks great. You have to have a great face to pull off really short hair and she does.

@Caroline-rv8wy 4 года назад

Wait, she got cast as Fantine but couldn't do it - why??

@ablackguy123456789 10 лет назад

sad that she didn't get to play ariel just cuz she "looked too ethnic". i would've much preferred her to originate the role of ariel over sierra bogus

@MrEricrockinout 9 лет назад

That's rather rude, I thought Sierra did a wonderful job. She is super talented. . .

@reggieblack5062 7 лет назад

at least spell her name right it's boggess, and sierra is a much younger better fit for the role of a disney character.

@MattWeisherComposer 6 лет назад

Reggie Black Well, that was a joke. Do you not know the English word "bogus"...? Hahaha

@jazminestryder 10 лет назад

seriously? That's lame he doesnt know that california has disneyLAND not disneyWORLD.

@wesandjor 10 лет назад

Seth frfr talks to much dang lol.

@TruthSerum101 8 лет назад

Hmm Maybe she needed to warm up. *******] Some people are convinced that "white" isn't ethnic - as if everyone else is an other.

@IDidntWantAHandleYouTube 2 года назад

Such a joke that she was the standby for Shrieky Menzel. 🙄

@EvaLou42 11 месяцев назад

I was thinking the same thing. Actually pulled up some clips of both of them singing songs from the show. Eden blows Idina out of the water. It’s crazy that she has ever been in Idinas shadow when I’m pretty sure OBJECTIVELY she is far superior.

@Sarahisaherz 10 лет назад

This is so uncomfortable. He is so rude.

@artsyfartsy6286 7 лет назад

Mmmm. No. That Fantine goes up like Seth suggested is just obnoxious. Singing high doesn't mean good. I didn't like the The Wizard and I riff neither.

@stone8193 6 лет назад

Nameless L yeah that's a tasteless as hell addition. The slight ascension is nice because it leaves a feeling of emptiness remorse and nostalgia which compliment the song. Going up the full scale makes no sense at all emotionally and artistically with the song

@Scandisk10 4 года назад

The one that really pissed me off more than anything was in the episode with Mandy Gonzalez when Seth made up option up on the end of "I'm Not That Girl" and belt it. Ending that song on the low note adds such an empty, defeated type of energy to the whole moment. What is his obsession- every pun intended- with loud belting? It's ridiculous and so closed minded.