omg omg omg omg omg WICKED WICKED WICKED!!!! is amazing!!! its a show and a book. or a book that was turned into a musical..... but anyways it is the best musical ive ever seen in my whole entire life!!!!!!!
Its about what happens in Oz before Dorothy comes. Its so amazing how everything fits in and makes sense in the Wizard of Oz. It makes me have a whole new look at The Wizard of Oz. Here's some info I found on Wikipedia about it:
Quote:
Wicked is a Tony award-winning American musical produced by Universal Pictures with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and libretto by Winnie Holzman. The story is loosely based on the best selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of Oz. The musical follows the stories of Glinda and Elphaba, two young witches who eventually become the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West respectively, and is set mostly prior to Dorothy's arrival from Kansas. The plot also makes several references to the classic 1939 film.
The musical first opened on Broadway on October 30, 2003, directed by Joe Mantello and starring Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel and Joel Grey, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento. Although the production received mixed reviews and was panned by The New York Times, it proved popular amongst patrons and became a theatrical phenomenon. The Broadway production's success spawned productions in Chicago, Los Angeles, London's West End, Tokyo, Stuttgart and Melbourne, along with a North American tour which has visited over 30 cities in Canada and the United States.
|
From left to right, pictures: The WICKED poster; Glenda the good witch and Elphaba the wicked witch of the west; Idina Menzel playing the part of Elphaba, singing Defying Gravity and the citizens of Oz on the ground
