Wicked #1 because what other musical can defy gravity?

[x-fallenstars-x]

Wicked

The Musical

The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz

It's making a million a week in New York. Now, says Matt Wolf, 'Wicked' is the hottest ticket in a packed West End autumn of musicals.

When it first opened, no one expected Wicked to become a Broadway phenomenon. Yet four years later, Wicked is enjoying a British debut in a £7 million West End production. It previewed at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, the musical has an international cast that included Menzel as Elphaba, the green-skinned teenage witch at the show's breathless heart.

Wicked Fans:
x-fallenstars-x
Panda
Fiyero3305
*Twinkle*
Defying Gravity


Just ask to be added!

[Panda]

oh HELL YEAH add me Jas!
one of my favorites I've seen! <3 saw it twice!

[x-fallenstars-x]

Added you!

& It's amazing isn't it? I've seen it once but i'm going again in April.

Defying Gravity has to be the best song in the musical but i love them all.

[Panda]

I've seen it once in Boston and I saw the original cast in NYC .. that was crazy.
Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are effing amazing and they light up that show. I have loved Idina since I got into RENT about 5 years ago.. so when they said she was staring in this show I had to see it.

I love "Popular" cause its such a cute Kristen song.. <3 Defying Gravity is great too though.. I like alot of the songs and the story is the best. Its crazy how they have the "untold story of OZ" and how they were friends.. the best of :heart:

[Fiyero3305]

Man, I had no idea there were musical threads! Please add me, I love Wicked so much, easily my all-time favorite show. So far I've seen it twice and I hope to see it many more times.

[x-fallenstars-x]

Will add you!
Popular isn't my favourtie but Kristen is amazing!

I love For Good, Dancing Through Life, As Long as Your Mine and I'm Not That Girl.

There isnt really a song imc not crazy about.

[Fiyero3305]

Thanks for the add!

Personally, "No One Mourns the Wicked" is my favorite song. I love the energy and the harmonies are just amazing.

I think we should correct some of the info in the first post though. The show opened in October of '03 so it's been a little over four years since it opened, and Kristin and Idina weren't unheard of when the show opened. Kristin was hugely famous on Broadway and had TV and Movie credits, and Idina, though not as famous as Kristin, had Rent, Aida, and I think The Wild Party and See What I Wanna See to her credit when she joined the show.

[JOYVEN]

sounds great

[anniehall4000]

oooo, i love the singing in the musical. i really want to see this in LA, but the tix are so much.

i love idina menzel, she was so pretty in Enchanted, it was weird not seeing her green, hehehe

[Fiyero3305]

You could try the lottery in LA. I've neer done it but my one friend lottoes a lot and has only lost once!

[gecko22]

I love wicked. I have not read the book. is it better than the play? i heard the book was dirty

[Fiyero3305]

The book, in my opinion, cannot compare to the musical. Maguire has very droning, monotonous, detailed writing. It was tedious and I had to force myself through most of it. And yes, there are disturbing sexual scenes. I am very thankful that Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman deviated so much from his original story to give us the musical we have today.

[Panda]

I read the book after seeing the show.. I still dont know how I feel about the book, whether I liked it or not. I am kind of glad that I saw the show first, because if I hadnt, I may not have went to see it. Its VERY different from the musical

[*Twinkle*]

I'm heeeere! :bgrin:

I love Wicked! Went to see it in London last fall. It was amazing! :heart: Especially because Idina was in it! She was brilliant!

I love 'For Good' and 'Defying Gravity'.. and 'Popular'.. ah, I can't choose. :lol: I wanted to see it when we were in NYC last month, but it was sold out. *sad*

[Panda]

I love Popular! I just listened to it on the way to work.

[Fiyero3305]

Yay for more people! :D
Okay, one new person, but still yay! Welcome to the thread!

[*Twinkle*]

Teehee.. thank you. :bgrin:

If I go back to NYC while I'm here, I'm gonna try to see if I can't get tickets for it.. and I guess I can always see it in London when I go back home. You can never visit London too many times. :lol:

[Fiyero3305]

Wicked Arts!

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[Defying Gravity]

Wicked thread = LOVE.
I'm so obsessed with Wicked it's unbelievable.
Can I be added please?

Seeing it in London on June the 28th so no idea who i'll be seeing as Kerry will have left - I'm hoping it'll be CJ.
;D

Idina and Kristin will always be my favourite Gelphie pair though<3.

Great art, this is the only banner I tried to make;

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Dianne Pilkington<3.

[Fiyero3305]

I love that banner! I believe I've seen it on WoO..? Are you a member there?

[Defying Gravity]

Yes I am ;D

My username is Bedazzled
;D

I only joined a few days ago.

[Captain oats 13]

I am seeing Wicked this summer when it's on tour!! I can't WAIT!! If anyone knows me they know I am a HUGE fan of the book and i have the soundtrack memorised to every line. I just need to see the play! :lol:

[*Twinkle*]

aww.. I love the art! :heart: I wanna see it again soooo badly!

Yay for you seeing it on tour, Kristy! :D

[Fiyero3305]

aww.. I love the art! :heart:


Thanks!

Dude, Captain Oats 13, if you get to see Katie Rose Clarke I'm gonna be so jealous!

[Captain oats 13]

^Who is she? :lol: The only ones I really know are Indina Menzel and Kristin Chenowith. You can call me Kristy, by the way. :)

[Fiyero3305]

Okay Kristy, I'm Austin by the way, in case I never mentioned! :lol:

Katie is playing Glinda on the tour right now and from what I hear she's amazing. I'd love to get to see her!

[Captain oats 13]

well, I hope she is the Glinda I see in Ottawa, then. :D Does anyone know who plays Elphie on tour?

[Fiyero3305]

Right now it's Carmen Cusack and I've only heard good things about her and Katie! I just don't know how long they're going to be in the show.

[Captain oats 13]

Hmm.. well, we will see in August. I am just so happy I now get the chance to see Wicked!! I live in Canada and I don't have the money to go all the way to Newyork so Ottawa is perfect!! Its an hour drive from where I live!!! I am so happy Wicked is touring there.

[Defying Gravity]

I've seen it once in Boston and I saw the original cast in NYC .. that was crazy.
Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are effing amazing and they light up that show. I have loved Idina since I got into RENT about 5 years ago.. so when they said she was staring in this show I had to see it.

I love "Popular" cause its such a cute Kristen song.. <3 Defying Gravity is great too though.. I like alot of the songs and the story is the best. Its crazy how they have the "untold story of OZ" and how they were friends.. the best of :heart:

:O
You got to see Kristin and Idina.
You lucky lucky person, argh i'm so jealous!
I so wish I could have saw them.

[ShannonQT85]

I saw Wicked in Los Angeles on Saturday night and I really enjoyed it. My sister had seen it on her first night in London over the summer when she studied abroad. She liked it so much she saw it a second time while she was there and ever since she's been back home she's been telling me I should see it sometime because she really loved it. I'm really glad I went....great show that I would definitely recommend people check out :)

[Fiyero3305]

Congratulations! :)

I can't wait 'til the tour comes back to Pittsburgh, I'm so excited to see the show again!

[EverHere]

I loved the song Defying Gravity and the show!

[Defying Gravity]

I've missed this thread.
*hugs thread* - I don't care if I only posted on it a few times :P.

So, yeah Wicked.
Amazing<3.

I'm in love with the song 'Thank Goodness' at the minute.
Kristin's laugh after 'lets have a celebration, the Glinda way' is ADORABLE.

[Fiyero3305]

It so is, but then again, EVERYTHING Kristin does is adorable!

[Defying Gravity]

I know, she's way too adorable. :lol:
Her Glinda is definitely the best.

[Fiyero3305]

My personal favorite is Jennifer Laura Thompson:heart:, but Kristin is definitely up there!

[sandram38]

I can't wait till it comes to town, but are there any plans to turn it into a movie?

[Fiyero3305]

Not for a while. It definitely will be eventually, I mean Universal Studios is producing the show, but with how quickly it sells out every night they won't be making a movie for a lon time.

[x-fallenstars-x]

I watched it again on the second of April!

It was way better than the first time, we had Kerry Ellis was AMAZING! She'll be coming to Broadway after June 9th, so you guys should look out for her there, she's Elphie of course.

We didn't have Dianne Pilkington, but Sarah Earnshaw was amazing too, and Oliver Tompsett was an AMAZING Fiyero ( not to mention hot!)

My opinion on my favourite songs has changed since seeing it too, As Long As You're Mine is my favourite now, followed by No Good Deed, but all in all it's just amazing all round!

Oh and iwatched Enchanted last night, (just thought i'd mention since Idinas in it) and she was reallly great!

[x-fallenstars-x]

Gusy c'monnn we gotta keep the wicked love alive!

[Fiyero3305]

Well, I saw the show in Chicago a few weeks ago and it was sooo good! I saw Annaleigh Ashford as Glinda and Jennifer DiNoia as Elphaba.

[x-fallenstars-x]

Wow, i've no idea who they are but i expect they were amazing! I really hope someone from here goes to see Kerry Ellis on Broadway, she's amazing guys. She was the original Meat in WWRY, which i love :)

I finished the book a while ago.. It was very different from the musical but still good, though i prefer the musical.

[Fiyero3305]

They're great, Annaleigh just finished playing the role on Broadway and Jennifer has been the understudy in Chicago for years. Neither of them were my favorites, but they were still fantastic.

Yeah the book, I really didn't like it at all.

[x-fallenstars-x]

Aww good, i like to know their being played by really god people everywhere<3


&You didn't? I think having seen how fantastic the musical is.. The book is a let-down. But i still think it was such a good idea. But i hate how Fiyeros married and.. God i just love the more romantic portrayal of him i nthe musical. And the end is different in the book.

Musical is a lot better.

[Fiyero3305]

I actually thought Gregory Maguire's writing was really boring, but that was just his style that I didn't like, I think the story itself was pretty good.

[x-fallenstars-x]

The beginning - about te Quadling and her mother is extrememly boring, but once that's over ans they get to school, it picks up a little.

Though i still can't say it's my favourite book ever.

[Fiyero3305]

It was the middle that killed me, when she was traveling in the woods or something and there was that Elephant princess...I was barely paying attention.

[Captain oats 13]

I am seeing the play August 16th!!! :D I can't wait!! :)

[Fiyero3305]

Awesome! Where?

[ne0ven0m]

Wicked is definitely on my list of Broadway shows to see, along with Phantom and Little Mermaid. I've liked a lot of the songs from the show, and it just seems like it'd be fun.

[x-fallenstars-x]

It's extremely good.

A friend of mine in my class keeps trying to get the end out of me as she's listened to the soundtrack but of course you can't get the end out of that, i refuse to ruin it for her though!

[Katherine]

I'm watching this in 2 weeks.
I cannot wait.
And hopefully when I'm in NYC in September I can watch it again...

[Captain oats 13]

I saw it on Saturday in Ottawa!!!

****ING BRILLIANT!!!!

[ky2here]

I saw the first night where Julia Murney did Elpheba. She was fantastic. It also featured the current Broadway Guh-Linda - Cassandra Kessenbaum (or something like that). It seemed like she was doing a Chenoweth imitation but she was certainly talented. I like Wicked because I saw every one of my dollars. It's a helluva production and it really holds the attention. The end is a cheat, of course but that's the way it goes.

[Fiyero3305]

lol, Kendra Kassebaum! I saw her too, in Pittsburgh with Stephanie J. Block (who is completely amazing) as Elphaba. They were my second pair and Stephanie is easily my favorite Elphaba.

[Wieke]

I saw it like 3 weeks ago.. in LA... it was SOOO amazing.... I am an addict... it was so beautiful!

[Fiyero3305]

I'm seeing the show in a few hours in Pittsburgh!

I'm so excited, this will be my fourth time seeing it and I can hardly wait!

[sethsangel123]

im seeing it in a couple of months! we could only get tickets for then! its sucks but im sure it will be worth the wait!

[mackarkly]

I have memorized the entire soundtrack so I should be added! Please?

[EverHere]

Dnacing Through Life came on my ipod yesterday. I loved it.

[ne0ven0m]

They're finally doing a showing in Atlanta at the Fox, so I hope to catch it sometime during it's run here.

[mackarkly]

That would be a good opertunity. Any chance to see the show would be amazing.

[ShannonQT85]

Can't wait to see it for the second time soon on the 16th :D It's leaving LA soon so I had to get tickets to see it again before it leaves...love Wicked :)