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"   While famed NYC gay hot spot Splash Bar can get just a wee bit seedy on most evenings (especially when those college guys get rowdy on Thursdays!), Monday night found the dance floor occupied by a decidedly mixed crowd all there to enjoy the weekly Broadway sing-along night deemed Musical Mondays. Though any Monday night is a good excuse to gather your gaggle, down a few drinks, and belt your lungs out to video-taped recordings of some of the Great White Way&amp;#039;s most famous performances, this particular evening held the especially high occasion of celebrating the six-year anniversary of the opening of Wicked. In honor of the show&amp;#039;s almost 2,500 performance run (and certainly counting) a handful of Wicked cast members took their night off from the Gershwin Theater to lend their voices to some memorable performances for a gathering of their most adoring fans.  Dee Roscioli (pictured), who plays Elphaba on Broadway, ripped through &amp;quot;The Wizard and I&amp;quot; as if the cold she was reportedly nursing didn&amp;#039;t even exist. Chelsea Krombach, currently the Elfaba understudy, blew our ears off with &amp;quot;Defying Gravity,&amp;quot; and Heather Spore, a Galinda understudy, did the dutiful role of bewitching the crowd with Wicked fan favorite, &amp;quot;Popular.&amp;quot; After a performance by the Wicked dancers and a crowed giveaway, night took a, uh, charmingly desperate (?) turn when Craig Jessup, the make-up artist responsible for greenifying Elfaba every night, sang an original number, &amp;quot;Date With Myself.&amp;quot; Naturally, almost everyone in the room identified. At least we&amp;#039;ll always have our musicals.  \u2014Seth Plattner, Assistant Editor Follow ELLE on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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