Eden Espinosa is known for playing Elphaba in Wicked, Brooklyn in Brooklyn: The Musical, and Maureen in the closing company of Rent. She recently returned from playing Trina on the National Tour of Falsettos and is originating the title role of the polish painter Lempicka in a new musical by Matt Gould. She will be playing the Narrator, alongside Alex Newell and Jessica Vosk, in Lincoln Center’s all-star 50th Anniversary Celebration of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Her album Revelation is out now, and she is embarking upon a residency at The Green Room 42 in a series she calls “Unplugged and Unplanned.”
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Laura Heywood Interviews Lesli Margherita (Emojiland: The Musical)
Lesli Margherita is currently starring as The Princess of Emojiland in Emojiland: The Musical, a role that could have — and may have — been written for her!
If Broadway had a poster child for living out loud, it would be the woman here with me in-studio today. Never had there been a fiercer, more outspoken advocate for living your truth, owning your weirdness, and ruling your own kingdom.
There’s a reason her social media accounts are all called Queen Lesli — and it’s not because she thinks she’s better than anyone else. In fact, she believes we are all kings, queens, princes, or, in her words, “Head Fart Head” if we want to be.
Lesli Margherita has played royalty on stage before — in fact, she won an Olivier Award (the British equivalent of a Tony), for playing the Gypsy Queen Inez in “Zorro: The Musical.”
We’ve been friends since she was Mrs Wormwood in the original Broadway cast of Matilda; and it is such a happy occasion for me to welcome my favorite, Lesli Margherita, to Laura Heywood Interviews.