Wicked: The Complete Genderswap
Taylor May for Dr. Dillamond (speaking voice)
Dr. Dillamond is a history professor at Shiz University and a Talking Animal. She is very passionate about her profession and loves teaching students, even if they aren't very receptive. She is the victim of a hate crime on the first day of class when someone writes on the blackboard "Animals should be seen and not heard." Elphaba encourages her to not let it bother her, but Dr. Dillamond confesses to him that Animals around Oz are being pressured into forgetting how to talk at all. Soon after, she is forbidden to continue teaching and is replaced with a cold-hearted Professor who shows the students a trapped Lion cub in a cage. Elphaba crosses path with Dr. Dillamond again in the Wizard's palace in Emerald City and discovers that she is no longer able to speak.
Age: 60s
Voice: passionate, gentle, warm
Doubtless you’ve noticed, I am the sole Animal on the faculty. The token Goat, as it were. But it wasn’t always this way. Oh, dear students, how I wish you could have known this place as it once was. Where one would walk these halls and hear an antelope explicating a sonnet, a snow leopard solving an equation, a wildebeest waxing philosophic.
(as she’s being led away) You’re not being told the whole story! Remember that, class! Remember that!
(bleats)
