NEW YORK -- Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to ...
becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of “Wicked.” “It’s hard to even pinpoint a single emotion because I feel that it changes like ...
“It’s hard to even pinpoint a single ... lifting me and holding me,” she says. Lencia Kebede appears as Elphaba in the Broadway musical "Wicked" in New York on March 1, 2025.