If you have seen Wicked, this is the place to post about it! :D

Even if you haven't seen it (like me!) and love the music and storyline, you're still welcome.

I've seen Wicked twice in LA and I'm going again next month. It's even better than listening to the soundtrack a million times because the folks that put the soundtrack together brilliantly left out a few key pieces of information, allowing the audience to still have a few surprises. Loved it, loved it, loved it.

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"This must be what going mad feels like."--Dr. Simon Tam, Firefly

I've seen it twice, the first time on Broadway and again in Philadelphia. I think I actually prefered seeing it the second time but that might just have been because when I went to see it then I really hadn't listened to the music for a while so i had less preconceived notions of what it should be like. Overall, it's a very nice show.

I haven't seen it unfortunately, except a few clips on youtube, but I have rented the soundtrack from the library ten times or something like that and I will order it from Amazon this summer because I love the music. It's probably one of my favorite musicals and from reading about it on the net, listening lots of time to the soundtrack and reading the book it's based on, I know the story very well.
Actually I've started a little translating project that has to do with Wicked. I really want to see it so I've begun translating the songs to norwegian just for fun and then when that's done I'm thinking of approaching a theatre in Oslo in hopes of them setting up a norwegian version of it. After all, then I will have done much of the job by translating the songs and then it might be possible :)
Anyway, I love Wicked and am more than happy to discuss it here.

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Wicked = love!

My sister and I won the Wicked lottery in July of...'06?...and got front-row tickets for 25 bucks each. And it was amazing. (Confetti from their celebrations fell on us! YAY!)

And as much as I love Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth, it was interesting to hear other's renditions of the songs (Victoria Matlock and Kendra Kassebaum, I think I saw...I need to check the Playbill, if I have it).

Again, Wicked = love!

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Look! A shiny thing! *is distracted*

FYI, other than some key plot points, the musical is almost 100% different from the book.

The second time I saw it, I flipped open the Playbill and was a little sad to see that the understudy would be playing Glinda that night instead of Megan Hilty. When the show started, Natalie Daradich started to sing and had a bit of a rough start. She was off-key in a few places, completely missed a word and didn't hit the high notes quite as well as she should have. I was concerned. A hundred bucks for a ticket to see a substandard performance by an understudy. But by the end of the opening number, she had finally hit her stride and went on to be very good. We waited at the stage door afterwards and got a chance to talk to her. Come to find out, it was her very first EVER performance as Glinda AND she found out at 6pm that she was going on at 8. So, it ended up being pretty cool to be there for someone's very big first night.

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"This must be what going mad feels like."--Dr. Simon Tam, Firefly

I saw the show in '05 when it came to Atlanta and I'm planning on going back this October when it returns! *yes!* I only saw about half the show, literally. My family waited too late and were only able to get cheap seats, so we coiuld only see about half the stage. Now you see what I meant about only seeing half of the show. I got to see it with Julia Murney, and I believe Kendra Kassebaum, and they were both, excuse the inside "Wicked" joke coming up, Wonderful! I'm hounding my mother to get our tickets for Wicked as soon as they go on sale. I've never let her live that one down. Julia Murney, I can't believe I'm saying this, is just about as good as Idina Mnzel, who honestly owned this role. Of course, when Wicked came to Atlanta, I was actually in a production of The Wizard of Oz. Ironic, isn't it? My friend, who was playing the, quote unquote, "Wicked" Witch of the West, actually talked to the Elphaba understudy and got her Grimmerie signed. I really can't wait for Wicked to return to Atlanta. Great show, I'd love for this to be turned into a movie. I even considered adapting it for Script Frenzy.
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I saw it in New York... Lets see... 3 years ago. Loved it. I had a bunch of friends who saw it around the same time, and we ended up with this huge inside joke, us finding our characters--I was Glinda, lets see, the guy who named me was Fiyero, I think... It went on and on...

I read the book last year, and was surpsied at the differences, though I have to say I liked it.

The music is amazing!

The only bad thing is that it isn't coming to my state.