According to this article in Broadwayworld:

Kate Reinders, Chicago's Glinda, has fractured her foot during a recent performance and will be out of the show for a few weeks. During Reinders' recovery, understudy Sarah Jane Everman will play the pink-clad witch.

Wicked, currently enjoying an open-ended sit-down run, is playing to full houses at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St). The production also stars Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba, Kristoffer Cusick as Fiyero, Rondi Reed as Madame Morrible, Heidi Kettenring as Nessarose and Gene Weygandt as The Wizard.

Reinders last appeared on Broadway in the Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations. Previous Broadway credits include Gypsy, Into the Woods and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, her Broadway debut. Reinders, who also appeared in A Year with Frog and Toad, recently picked up a Jefferson Award nomination for her performance as Glinda.

For a show with such little dancing, it certainly is lethal! What with both Kristin Chenoweth (she received a chronic neck injury from whipping her hair around every night!) and Idina Menzel falling under the accident spell, and then Stephanie J. Block in Toronto, this show is hard on the body!

On the other hand, once you're involved with any given production in a behind-the-scenes way, you realize it's amazing more cast members don't end up in traction!

As they say, it's a tough business -- here's to a speedy recovery!

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