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Postby Denise » June 19th, 2006, 1:45 pm

Wildtrk asked if anyone has seen this play. I saw it about 2 months after it opened and I loved it! Great Show! Love the score!

Serendipity...when did you see it?
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Postby JeepGirl » June 19th, 2006, 1:52 pm

I saw it and LOVED LOVED it!

I have always been a Wizard Of Oz fan so hubby took me as a surprise and he even liked it LOL
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Postby wildtrk » June 19th, 2006, 2:03 pm

Have tickets for July 8th at Cleveland Playhouse Square...I was in Chicago last summer and Wicked was the hottest ticket in town. I am a Playhouse Square member so I get early buy opportunities. I have had tickets ordered since last November. Can't wait!
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Postby Arklahoma » June 19th, 2006, 2:04 pm

I've heard about this show, but don't really know much about it. What's it about???
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Postby Denise » June 19th, 2006, 2:22 pm

It is sooo good!
Ark..its basically a story about the 2 witches in the wizard of Oz. I had never even heard of it when we went to see it..now it is one of my Faves!
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Postby Arklahoma » June 19th, 2006, 2:28 pm

Thanks. I'll have to put it on my list of things to do and hope my husband will attend.
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Postby Serendipity » June 19th, 2006, 2:41 pm

I saw it in Pittsburgh in March. The tickets were sold out before they went on sale.....go figure that one, but I had a friend with the inside scoop.

ARK, It's about the witches from the Wizard of OZ, but with a twist. It's probably the same group in Cleveland that I saw in PGH, and if it is, the voices are simply fantastic!
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Postby Arklahoma » June 19th, 2006, 2:45 pm

You guys are REALLY making me want to go!!!
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Postby Nova » June 19th, 2006, 6:50 pm

I read the book years ago and I loved it. When I found out it was going to be a musical and come to Houston, I was all set to get tickets. Until I found out that the Lion King musical was coming to town too. I could only afford to get one pair of tickets, and the Lion King won. Sometime I'll see Wicked.
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Postby Joelie » June 19th, 2006, 9:02 pm

Never seen it...but I wanna!
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Postby Tankie » June 19th, 2006, 11:20 pm

The books were so good.....I hope the show can be 1/10 as good......had to buy ticks off ebay cuz tickets sold out here in less then 30 seconds.....mind you that was almost 40,000 tickets......We're going mid July ....hmmm....maybe I'll wear my red sparly pumps....

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Postby Drama Queen » June 23rd, 2006, 2:56 pm

Have seen the show a couple of times in NYC. AWESOME. Loved it. Absolutely loved the book!!

Wicked
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[Glinda] "Are you a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?"
[Dorothy] "I'm not a witch at all. I'm a little girl."

If you have participated in that ritual of childhood fantasy, the yearly viewing of "The Wizard of Oz," that began in 1939 and continues to this day, then you recognize those lines. And if you do, you have a treat in store for you. Gregory Maguire has written the great revisionist Oz book of all time, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Collins, New York 1995). That's right, a biography of that green-faced childhood icon of evil, the Wicked Witch herself. She was ugly, she was scary, she had an army of winged monkey minions. When Dorothy melted her into green goo, we all sang "Ding dong the witch is dead" and rejoiced.

But what if she wasn't a witch at all? At some time was she just a little girl? In Wicked Maguire tells us the whole story, cradle to puddle, all the stories you probably never thought to wonder about. Sibling rivalry between the witch sisters, West and East. Legislated discrimination against certain Ozian minority groups. Assassination plots and dens of iniquity. Maguire creates a complex, sophisticated Oz as a backdrop for Elphaba, someday to become the Wicked Witch of the West. Her life story makes her our contemporary; childhood traumas overcome, college majors changed, choices and mistakes made and paid for, and through out it all we know how it has got to end. It is an inspired idea crafted into a fascinating tale.

Wicked is much more, though, than a tell-all memoir of someone we all grew up loving to hate. It's about the nature of Good and Evil, how you tell them apart, and what makes you one or the other. In Wicked, Gregory Maguire showcases a variety of Belief systems and their tenets on Right and Wrong. Organized Religion, Education, a Cause, the lower class, the upper class, the tribal class, each of these groups indoctrinates its members with the Truth about Good and Evil, and each appears in some guise or other in Maguire's Oz. All this as our previous two-dimensional opinions about the Wicked Witch of the West are turned inside out by reexamination in light of additional information. "Give me a child until he's six and he's mine for life" some thought a dictator once said. Wicked makes you think about what else you absorbed at the age when you learned without questioning that Elphaba was a Wicked Witch and therefore deserved to die.

But Gregory Maguire's excellent book doesn't even stop there. In Elphaba he builds a compelling and highly sympathetic character, a reasoning intellect who assesses the world around her and sets out to make it a better place. Her intent is pure, whatever her methods, a champion of the underdog and a Just and Honest soul. Yet her actions in the final chapter of her life, immortalized in Technicolor, brand her wicked for all time. Is intent or action what makes a person good? Or wicked? At its deepest level Wicked made me examine my own understanding of morality and the path of the Ethical Life. You can't ask for more than that. Pick up a copy of Wicked and enjoy. Taken from the StrangeWords website
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Postby Arklahoma » June 24th, 2006, 1:21 pm

Very intriguing. Now, I've got to see it.
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Postby alpha femme » June 24th, 2006, 1:55 pm

i started listening to wicked (book on tape) when i began working out a few months ago. when i resume walking i will continue again.... (i still get a little too dizzy too soon some days).

it's really quite funny. i got a licensed copy when i bought my sansa san disk. if anyone else uses an mp3 player when they workout and wants a copy, pm me and i'll try to zip it to you.
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Postby wildtrk » June 24th, 2006, 7:50 pm

Yo...can you hook a brother up!
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