London Wicked!
 

Last night was the first preview of Wicked in London! Overall it sounds like it was a success with it compared to more like a rock concert which is completely unlike British theater audiences. However, there were a few glitches.

In the opening song, No One Mourns the Wicked, they got to the "Look! It's Glinda!" part yet there was no bubble or Glinda! :eek: They had to stop the show, lower the Oz map curtain and then restart from the beginning. But the audience was so into it that it didn't really matter.

Also the benches didn't come out in the first class scene with Dr. Dillamond. The students had to sit on the floor! The beds didn't come out in Popular either and had to be moved by stage hands.

Some mixed reviews for Helen Dallimore as Glinda. People who are used to Kristin's Glinda are having a hard time adjusting to Helen's take as a British upper class snob rather than a ditzy blonde.

OH and one guy got smacked by some moving lighting, blood everywhere and had to go to the "casualty ward." I hope that Idina takes care and doesn't have a repeat of her trap door incident.

Idina was welcomed with thunderous applause of course but also had some mixed reviews on her singing-although her No Good Deed was supposedly fantastic. I have not seen anything good about Adam Garcia as Fiyero though. I hope he steps it up a bit and gets into the role as the previews continue.

Madam Morrible is speaking her lines instead of singing them?? :confused:

There were not a lot of changes to make it more British as some had speculated. Some reviews questioned the accents - Elphie is American, Boq is Scottish, The Wizard is American (but the actor is British) and the rest British, but oh well that doesn't really bother me.

That's all I can remember now but check out the Wicked blog by Martin Ball (Dr. Dillamond) I LOVE him! - http://www.wicked.lastminuteliving.com/

I really would like to see Wicked when it comes to Miami. I have already given big hints ... ;)

I LOVED the book...

I haven't yet read the sequel but it is on my to read list.

I do agree that this a "book club" kinda book as in I wished I had someone to discuss it with after I finished it.

It got me very interested in the author Gregory Maguire...he has several dark sides of fairy tale books.

I have read both Mirror Mirror, and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister...both follow the same dark, slightly twisted paths...but both are GREAT!

If you liked Wicked, I would DEFINETLY try some of the others... :D

Bumping this because I just YouTubed Adam Garcia in Wicked...

That boy best be glad that he's a hottie because the boy can't. sing.

He must be an amazing actor to pull Fieryo off with as bad as his singing is. In fact, unless it was just a really bad night, almost everyone in the video I was listening to were pretty bad. I know it's someone recording in the theater with probably pretty low-tech equipment...but low tech doesn't make someone off-key.

I looked for another video, and he was a tad more on key. He does fine on the staccato, fast sections, but I cringe anytime he has to hold a note more than two beats.

I'll be the first to admit that the music from Wicked is H.A.R.D. (I karaoked just about the entire score last weekend)...but when you're a professional, you're expected to AT LEAST be on key.

Heads up - Tickets go on sale to the General Public for the Charlotte gig Fri. Nov 30th. @ midnight. They're going to go fast!

I got ours last week. Thank God for the e-mail club!

For some reason I thought it was the 23rd. We couldn't figure out why the tickets weren't available. So we hid in a back room on the computer when the 24 other family members were trying to take a family picture. Oops! I will be buying them at 12:01 on Friday!

This was the best musical I have ever seen. Beats Evita, Lion King, Evita, Chicago, Chorus Line...
Of course, I haven't seen Jersey Boys yet

Everyone at church/work/wherever people know me keep telling me about Wicked coming to Charlotte. Yeah, I know, I've had my tickets since August.:D

WICKED coming back to Atlanta 2008
 

“Wicked” — Oct. 8-Nov. 2

“Ain’t Misbehavin’” — Nov. 18-23.

“A Chorus Line.” The current Broadway revival of the Michael Bennett classic. March 3-8, 2009.

“Happy Days.” “The Fonz” returns in a new musical based on the hit TV show from the ’70s and ’80s. March 31-April 5.

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” The Sherman Brothers’ 2005 Broadway take on the children’s story about a flying car. April 21-April 26.

“Jersey Boys.” The universally admired juke-box musical won four Tonys. May 27-June 21.

Ticket info: Season packages are available now. Subscribers are guaranteed seats and may purchase additional tickets as well. Single tickets generally go on sale six to eight weeks before each show. (800-278-4447, broadwayacrossamerica.com)

A) "Wicked" is one of my favorite books- I read it years before the show was introduced and I love them both

B) The musical is coming to San Antonio in June 2009/my 21st birthday- guess who plans to be there??? :)

Wicked sold out here in Charlotte in 6 hours.

I bought season tickets for the very top of the back balcony, then upgraded just the Wicked ones to make sure I got a good seat. The season tickets WITH upgrades for Wicked are about half the price of the tickets I'm seeing now on ebay and through 3rd party "vendors". You might think about going that route.

I'm watching like a hawk for the date that they start selling Atlanta tickets!

My 13-year-old's voice teacher has her singing a song from Wicked for the spring recital: "I'm Not that Girl", I think?

Yep. It's sung and then reprised later.

Good song.

I mentioned in the Broadway thread that a local, Denver area woman, with whom a couple of our kids have performed, is now playing Glinda in New York.

I finally, finally saw Wicked tonight! Years after I started this thread, at the Fabulous Fox!!:D I feel like I've just been through a wonderful Greek initiation, you know how you have tons of questions afterwards? I looooved the ending, what a surprise!

Congratulations! lol

Hahahaha if you have questions, here's the perfect place to ask! :p Welcome to Wickedome!! I got an offer to see it in LA but I already have plans to see it in Sacracmento this spring. This will make time number....*thinks*.....4? 5? LOL I've lost count. :o

Okay! SPOILERS BELOW:




At the end when Elphaba came back--the head of the guy in front of me was blocking my view but it seemed like Fiyero came sliding in to the floor and was going through the spell book and all of a sudden, there was Elphaba. Was she coming back up out of the floor in a reverse of the Wizard of Oz?

Did they say that the Wizard was her father?

Did the goat-professor ever come back into the play after we saw him as a winged monkey?

I had so many last night but it was so late; when I get my head together, I'll remember more.

Yes. FWIW, this is a change from the book. In the book, Dororthy, who actually came to apologize for klling Elphaba's sister, does indeed melt Elphaba. The book ends with:

"And there the wicked old Witch stayed for a good long time."
"And did she ever come out?"
"Not yet."

Yep.

Not that I recall, but I may be mis-remembering.

Dr. Dillamond didn't turn into a Winkie. He just lost his ability to speak (which is why the Wizard kept him hidden). And no, we didn't see him again.

You're right. The wizard kept Dr. Dillimond among the winged monkeys didn't he? Elphaba sees him after singing "Wonderful" with the wizard. Perhaps that's why carnation had him as a winged monkey.

And it was initially the wizard's monkey Chistery that Elphaba gave wings.

Correct. :) I seriously considered buying a tank of sea monkeys and naming them "The Chistery." It's still on the table.

Loved Wicked. I've seen it twice and would love to see it again. Theta alumna Teal Wickes was awesome as Elphaba

A bunch of actresses who have been in the show are doing a "Women of Wicked" show at my alma mater next month. I'm so excited :) I've been Wicked obsessed for years and collect Elphaba autographs.

I have to say I liked the musical much better than the book. In the book I found Elphaba to be a bit too self pitying ("It's not my fault, everything sux because I'm green.") I wanted to tell her to get over herself.

Ooooh I never even thought about collecting autographs. After I got my Idina autograph, it was a wrap. :p Lol I'm very tempted to post a picture of my living room. The Wickedness is a little overwhelming at first but what else was I supposed to do with a room that came with green walls?

I thought for sure I had posted in this thread! Oh, well.

I loved the show. One of the best I've seen, honestly.

I enjoyed the book as well, but it's so different that it's hard to discuss them both at the same time. As MC said upthread, the book is definitely suited for a book club read.

All that said, this thread makes me miss DeltAlum.

Yes! I was just thinking about him and his son the other day...I was thinking how awesome it would be if one day I got to work with his son!

What was with the clock and clock gears motif?

The technical stuff and the scenery-- incredible! :)

You have to read the book to really get the gist of that, and even then . . . .

It's a religious (as in Ozian religion) thing. From the Wiki:

The Clock of the Time Dragon: A traveling show, which contains many magicked tik-tok puppets that act out prophetic scenes. At the top of the tower-like container that holds the show, there is a painted clock, hands perpetually at one minute to midnight and above that, a tik-tok dragon so lifelike as to strike awe in the hearts of all who see it. It is the center of the pleasure faith religion and is accompanied by the dwarf. Elphaba is born inside the Time Dragon, and receives the revelation that the Wizard is her father from the Dragon. Many of the characters in the Dragon's shows are later hunted down and killed or at least harassed, including Elphaba's parents and Turtle Heart.

If you've read any of Baum's other Oz books, you may remember that Tic-Toc was a robot-like character in some of the later books.

I saw it again in Birmingham yesterday! Slightly different, especially with the way Elphie returned, but just as good.

I've been waiting nearly a year for it to come to Sacramento and now that it's here, I can't go. :(

Loved Wicked! Saw it twice in San Francisco

Thanks for bumping this post. It reminded me that I needed to buy Wicked tickets for the run at ASU.

Let me know if you found any... I tried weeks ago and the pickings were really slim to none.

When it came to Gammage a few years ago, it was the reason I bought season tickets. I was able to buy my tickets for Wicked a year in advance, it was well worth it considering the first time it came to Gammage it sold out in like a day (and it was only there for a week!). Thankfully the second time it was there for a month. LOVED IT!

I really need to go see it again. It is coming to Raleigh/Durham soon.

Wicked it come to DPAC in May! My mom and I are going!

I wanna go but I can't afford the tickets right now because I really want orchestra seating this time around, I sat in the balcony last time and it really sucked.

I got some. They were not cheap!

Y'all are going to hate me but I got 6 tickets for $30 each. There was a special ticket sale for Girl Scout leaders.

There are some cool new T-shirts this year!

That's awesome. I bought tickets for 4 so I could entertain my parents while they're in town "taking care" of me.