Act I

 

This is the stage before Wicked starts. It includes gears, cogs, a smoke-breathing dragon and a map of Oz.

Once the map rises, a giant pointed hat appears on stage

The hat disappears under the stage as billows of smoke rise out of the floor and then the ensemble begins the sing in front of the Time Dragon Clock.

The ensemble continues to sing before Glinda the Good makes her entrance.

Glinda makes her entrance in a large bubble.

At the end of "No One Mourns The Wicked" a shadow of a witch is seen on the Time Dragon Clock.

Elphaba makes her entrance when one of the ensemble members asks "Is it true you were her (Elphaba/ The Wicked Witch of the West) friend?!"

The ensemble and Galinda finish the song "Dear Old Shiz" with a snarl at Elphaba.

Elphaba's father, Frex gives a pair of jeweled shoes to her sister, Nessarose.

Galinda asks Madame Morrible whether she recalls her entrance essay "Magic Wands: Need They Have A Point?"

Madame Morrible tells Elphaba if she works hard, and makes good she will meet the Wizard.

The ending of "The Wizard and I".

Galinda begins the song "What Is This Feeling" by writing a letter to her parents that reads "Dearest darlingest Momsie and Popsical..."

The end of "What Is This Feeling?"

Dr. Dillamond teaching his students about the history of Oz and the strange things that have been happening to animals.

Dr. Dillamond flips over his chalkboard during a lecture and finds out that someone wrote "Animals should be seen and not heard."

Dr. Dillamond tells Elphaba something bad is happening to all the animals in Oz.

Fiyero's entrance in the Shiz University Campus

Galinda & Fiyero leading the students at the dance.

Shiz University students dancing down at the Ozdust Ballroom.

Nessarose & Boq dancing at the party.

Galinda gives Elphaba a "hidiocious" hat so everyone will make fun of her.

Galinda feels very guilty so she decides to help by joining Elphaba in her dance.

Galinda still feels bad after the dance so she decides she wants to give Elphaba a make-over.

The pictures above and below are both from the San Francisco Pre-Broadway Preview of Wicked (note Galinda's blue dress)

Elphaba & Fiyero take a lion cub that was being used for an experiment and let him go in a meadow.

Elphaba finds out that she likes Fiyero and doesn't want him to leave her.

Fiyero & Galinda kissing on a bridge over Elphaba as she sings "I'm Not That Girl"

Elphaba is asked to come see the Wizard, so she invited Glinda to come with her in the song "One Short Day"

The "Flatheads" dance in Emerald City's most popular show, Wizomania.

The Wizard head enters and says "I am Oz the Great & Terrible. Who are you & why do you seek me?"

 

Elphaba replies "Elphaba Thropp, your terribleness!"

Once the Wizard hears this, he steps out from behind the head and tells Elphaba that he is a "Sentimental Man"

In order to know Elphaba has powers, he asks her to perform a spell for him.

Elphaba decides she doesn't like what the Wizard is doing and flees the thrown room and runs to the attic of the palace which starts "Defying Gravity"

Elphaba asks Glinda to defy gravity with her.

Elphaba rises above the citizens of Oz for the end of Act I.

 

Act II

 

Glinda starts off the Second Act by singing the song "Thank Goodness"

The ending of "Thank Goodness"

In the song "Wicked Witch of the East" Nessarose is angry at Elphaba because she has never thought to help her own sister, only animals. So Elphaba performs a spell that will make her walk, and it turns her Silver Jeweled Slippers into the Ruby Slippers.

Nessarose yells for Boq to come at once. She tells him that she can now walk and they can live a happy life together. But Boq tells her that he is in love with Glinda and always has been.

During the song "Wonderful" the Wizard is trying to persuade Elphaba into joining him.

 

She said that she would join him if he released the Flying Monkeys so he does so. But Elphaba sees what the real Wizard is like and no longer wants to join him, so she goes into hiding.

Madame Morrible tells the Wizard she can conjure up a storm that will bring Elphaba out of hiding.

In the song "As Long As You're Mine" Elphaba & Fiyero confess their love for eachother.

A twister goes across the sky and there is a blackout. When the lights come back up you see a house that has fallen in field and the Yellow Brick Road.

When Elphaba gets to the field she finds out her sister, Nessarose was crushed by the house that fell out of the sky.

Glinda gets mad at Elphaba for being with Fiyero so she slaps her.

Guards rush in and capture Elphaba. She figures out that her sister's death was planned just to get her out of hiding.

Fiyero swings in on a rope and tells the guards he will kill Glinda the Good if they don't let Elphaba go. So the guards let Elphaba go and capture Fiyero, and put him on a post in the corn field.

Elphaba, now very angry at herself, Glinda, and all of Oz goes off to her castle and attempts to save Fiyero durring the song "No Good Deed"

Glinda comes to Kiamo Ko (Elphaba's Castle) to talk to Elphaba and they apologize for everything they have ever done to hurt one another in the song "For Good"

After "For Good" Elphaba tells Glinda that she must go immediatly. Right after Elphaba is melted.

Behind the clock the ensemble does a reprise of "No One Mourns the Wicked" as Glinda steps into the bubble.

In the "Finale" Fiyero knocks on the floor and Elphaba comes out of a trap door. He tells her that they must leave Oz and never see Glinda or anyone they know ever again. Pictured above is when Elphaba and Glinda tell eachother they have been changed for good because they knew eachother.

The End

 

 

Jennifer Laura Thompson as Glinda

Carole Shelley as Madame Morrible and Jennifer Laura Thompson as Galinda

Joey McIntyre as Fiyero and Jennifer Laura Thompson

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Joey McIntyre as Fiyero

One Short Day

Defying Gravity

Thank Goodness

George Hearn as The Wizard

George Hearn and Carole Shelley

As Long As You're Mine

For Good

Shoshana Bean as Elphaba and Michelle Federer as Nessarose

Shoshana Bean

David Ayers as Fiyero

Jennifer Laura Thompson and David Ayers

Shoshana Bean, David Ayers, Jennifer Laura Thompson, and Ensemble

One Short Day

Defying Gravity

Jennifer Laura Thompson and David Ayers during Thank Goodness

Shoshana Bean as Elphaba

David Ayers and Shoshana Bean during As Long As You're Mine

Confrontation

 

"No One Mourns The Wicked"

Elphaba

"Something Bad"

"Dancing Through Life"

"Defying Gravity"

"Thank Goodness"

"The Wicked Witch of the East"

Glinda and Fiyero dancing at a ball.

"Wonderful"

"As Long As You're Mine"

"March of the Witch Hunters"

 

Chistery gives Elphaba the Grimmerie to give to Glinda.

"For Good"

 

Julia Murney as Elphaba and Jennifer Waldman as Nessarose.

Julia Murney "Defying Gravity"

Kendra Kassebaum and Sebastian Arcelus.

Julia Murney as Elphaba.

P.J. Benjamin as The Wizard.

Alma Cuervo as Madame Morrible.

Sebastian Arcelus and Julia Murney.

Julia Murney and Kendra Kassebaum.

 

Christina DeCicco as Glinda

The ensemble "No One Mourns The Wicked"

Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba

Kate Reinders as G(a)linda

Ana Gasteyer and Heidi Kettenring as Nessarose

Rondi Reed as Madame Morrible and Ana Gasteyer "The Wizard and I"

"What Is This Feeling?"

Steven Skybell as Dr. Dillamond

Kristoffer Cusick as Fiyero and Kate Reinders

Gene Weygandt as The Wizard

"Defying Gravity"

"Thank Goodness"

"The Wicked Witch of the East"

Confrontation

For Good

Wicked at Universal Studios Japan is much different than the production in the U.S. The biggest change was cutting the show from 2 hours and 45 minutes to 30 minutes. Needless to say, many songs were cut and they had to change the story and music to fit. It is supposed to be kind of like a flashback Elphaba has when she meets the Wizard. The show is equally split between Japanese and English. This is the way the show runs:

Overture

One Short Day

I Am Oz

Meeting the Wizard (no music)

Dear Old Shiz

What Is This Feeling?

Spell (orchestra and dancers)

The Wizard and I

Dancing Through Life (orchestra and dancers; no vocals)

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A Sentimental Man

Release of the Monkeys

Defying Gravity (non-flying section)

For Food

Defying Gravity (flying section)

Curtain Call

Overture

One Short Day

I Am Oz

Meeting the Wizard

Dear Old Shiz

What Is This Feeling?

Spell

The Wizard and I

Dancing Through Life

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Release of the Monkeys

Defying Gravity

For Good

Defying Gravity

Curtain Call