Kendra Kassebaum

Originally hired to cover Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, but instead she chose to be in the revival of Assassins.

[on doing eight shows a week on the Wicked National Tour] "It definitely is a challenge because I came to Glinda through more of an acting standpoint. I never really trained to be an opera singer or anything like that, so that's been definitely a challenge. But right now I'm at the point where I feel really good in the tour. I'm having fun. I'm not having to think about the singing technique. Now it's fun

• six months into it."