Published in 2011
286 pages
Felicia Ricci is an artist, performer, music producer, and writer. She received her English degree from Yale University, where she won the J. Edward Meeker award for nonfiction, the Saybrook Master’s Award, and the Louis Sudler Prize for the arts. Felicia makes original music in her own hybrid, inventive genre – eclectic, beat-driven songs grounded in story, character, and emotion. She self-produces her songs, playing and singing all parts. She lives in Los Angeles.
What is this book about?
In January of 2010, a wide-eyed English grad went from peddling software in NYC to understudying the lead role in Wicked the musical — her first professional theater gig (ever). Unnaturally Green is the humorous account of the entire journey, from her pit-stain-filled audition to the bittersweet closing night. Author Felicia Ricci wears her heart on her sleeve as she tackles the role of Elphaba, Wicked‘s green-skinned heroine. She leaps countless hurdles, both professional and personal: conquering the “Songs of Death,” weathering a trans-continental “Week I Didn’t Poop,” enduring the artistic limbo of understudying, and — worst of all! — meeting the man of her dreams. And all the while learning, time and again, what it means to be “green.” Hop into the mind of an over-sharer as she discovers Broadway’s Man Behind the Curtain — and the thrill and terror of personal growth.
