Interview With Natalie Daradich

This My Interview With Natalie Daradich She's a long time wicked cast member she's understudied Glinda and Nessarose in multiple productions she was lead Glinda for a while.
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My Questions:
What advice do you have for people who want to be on broadway? Is 8 shows a week hard as it sounds? I live in el paso did you get to go on as Glinda in el paso? Which is better broadway or tours? What is the biggest blooper you've made on stage? What other dreams roles do you have? If you could play any role as male what would you play? If you had the chance to play elphie would you? What was ur first show as a under study like? How you feel when you got cast your first professional show? What was ur first broadway audition like?
How long does it take put Glinda makeup on? And is it true Glinda wears more makeup than Elphaba?

• September 28, 2012
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  9/28, 10:34am
  

  Natalie Daradich
  

  
  

  Hey Tyler

  Natalie

  xo

  Hmmm should I give advice since I haven't been on Broadway yet myself? Hahaha. Honestly the best advice I can give is to wake up in the morning and do your best every day. Take classes, surround yourself with people who you can learn from, don't get discouraged with minor setbacks, and above all else keep the faith. You have to believe in yourself and that you are unique and talented and you will get there. You absolutely will get there.

  I think maybe it depends on the week. But 8 shows a week is a joy cause it's what I love to do. I think everyone will tell you that. And besides the Wicked audiences are the best I've ever seen so their excitement only makes the show more exciting for me.

  I didn't get to perform in El Paso but I loved watching the show from the audience and from backstage. It's a beautiful theatre.

  Well I've never performed on Broadway (yet) but I can tell you having done the sitdown productions in LA and SF the main differences are that the shows are scaled down a little bit for touring purposes and fitting the pieces in our trucks. And as for the actors and crew we get to adjust to being in a new location and theatre every couple of weeks and that can be a challenge. But the upside of that is we get an excited community of theatregoers to come see us and it's always fun to be the new kid in town. smile emoticon

  Yikes. Too many. But the most recent one was in Portland with Tour 1 and I got tangled in my bubble dress after the fallen house scene. The poor guard and I hit the ground running.....literally. Fluffy, sequined, road kill. He had to drag me off by one arm. Hahahaha.

  Hmmm so many dream roles. But maybe one that hasn't been dreamed up yet. Something new.

  Maybe Finch in How to Succeed. That was my senior year musical and there were more girls than guys in my graduating class so most of us were "men" anyway. Hahaha. But I love any kind of part where you get to be clever, endearing and of course funny.

  Well I have been painted green for fun and I think I looked pretty good. wink emoticon But no I think that would stress me out. And I'm a sweater so I think I would make the makeup artist cry.

  Yikes. Terrifying. My hands were sweating and I found out at the last minute and didn't have time to eat dinner. I don't remember much about it other than I survived, the Wicked set wasn't burned down and when I came out for curtain call my cast was all smiling. Oh yeah and my wildest dream came true that night too. smile emoticon

  So excited! Who wouldn't be? I didn't care what show it was or where I was spending the summer. I was just happy to do what I love best.

  Exciting and scary. I think everyone has a little self doubt. But it's more exciting to get the opportunity to make your dreams come true. So I always think it's best to acknowledge your nerves and channel them into your performance. And it always helps me to know that the audition panel wants you to be the one. They want you to do well and succeed. And they are all really really lovely people. So big smile and just do your best.

  And the Glinda makeup...probably takes me about 10 minutes tops. Depends on how distracted I get by people coming to visit and talking about our days. And I bet the Elphies still wear more makeup than we do. It's definitely a much different color palette so that's the biggest difference. We wear all pinks and browns and little bit of purple. They wear green (of course) and lots of dark purple, black and gold.